Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude’s training data
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude’s training data

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in California over song lyrics allegedly taken from pirate archives, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally and seeking up to $150,000 per composition. A Munich court ruled in Nove…

Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off US list
Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off US list

CXMT has sued the US Department of Defense in Washington seeking removal from the list identifying it as a Chinese military company, a designation that blocks defence contracts without restricting commercial sales. The company is the world’s fourth-lar…

OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition
OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition

OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor following SpaceX’s $60B acquisition, with access shutting off on 12 November and its forthcoming Astra model withheld. Cursor and SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5 together in July, which is available in…

Why businesses need clearer limits before AI agents are authorized to act
Why businesses need clearer limits before AI agents are authorized to act

A 2026 IBM study points to questions about AI readiness, visibility, and control. The survey of 2,000 C-level technology executives found 11% felt fully prepared for the AI-agent deployment expected over the following year. Two-thirds of CIOs and CTOs …

Lambda inks $1B private debt for Nvidia chip deal
Lambda inks $1B private debt for Nvidia chip deal

Lambda has raised about $1B of private short-dated debt arranged by JPMorgan to buy Nvidia GPUs that Microsoft will lease, according to Bloomberg. The same structure funds Nebius, which borrowed $775M against its own chips and holds a five-year Microso…

a16z has raised $1.1bn to invest in the physical layer of AI
a16z has raised $1.1bn to invest in the physical layer of AI

Andreessen Horowitz has closed a $1.1bn fund that will invest exclusively in hardware. The Machine Age Fund, announced on Friday, covers the physical layer artificial intelligence runs on, from chips to the buildings that house them. The mandate takes …

Watch How To Future-Proof Your Career In The Age Of AI

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the workplace—but not always in the ways people think. What does that mean for your career? Watch Forbes journalists and leading workplace experts discuss how AI is changing hiring, the careers and industries poised…

Nvidia denies pausing AI cloud commitments initiative after reported partner backlash — report claims company told cloud providers it could only lease its GPUs to Nvidia-approved customers
Nvidia denies pausing AI cloud commitments initiative after reported partner backlash — report claims company told cloud providers it could only lease its GPUs to Nvidia-approved customers

Nvidia denies putting AI cloud commitments initiative on hold despite reports that some deals were paused amid partner pushback over customer controls and concerns about potential antitrust scrutiny.

Claude nukes a developer’s 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up — Anthropic safety harness downgraded model to Opus 4.8 before fatal variable collision
Claude nukes a developer’s 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up — Anthropic safety harness downgraded model to Opus 4.8 before fatal variable collision

Claude nuked a developer’s 700 GB home directory while testing a script to ensure that wouldn’t happen, and it’s possible that an automatic model downgrade likely contributed to the screw-up

OpenAI hires Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia
OpenAI hires Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia

OpenAI has hired Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia from October, covering consumer growth, enterprise adoption and regulatory engagement across markets of more than 600 million people. Its European expansion has centred on …