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Elvis rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 compositions
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Elvis rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 compositions

Rights holders for 274 musical compositions recorded by Elvis Presley filed a federal complaint against Anthropic on October 23, 2026. The complaint identifies ABG EPE IP LLC and other companies, trusts and individuals as plaintiffs in case 5:26-cv-12473. The plaintiffs allege that Anthropic copied lyrics without a license, kept them in a permanent internal repository and used them in Claude model training. They also allege that Claude generated derivative or infringing outputs after guardrails were added. The complaint seeks up to $150,000 per work, or $41.1 million for 274 works, plus separate statutory amounts under two other claims. The allegations have not been tested in court.

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Elvis rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 compositions
Oct 26, 20260
Claude Science tackles deadly scorpion stings by designing protein binders from scratch
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Anthropic's Claude Science autonomously generated 318,484 protein binder designs in 24 hours to target deadly scorpion neurotoxins

Inside Anthropic's Claude Science environment, Claude autonomously designed synthetic protein binders targeting scorpion neurotoxins, which kill over 3,250 people annually. After a single prompt, the model worked for 24 hours and generated 318,484 candidate designs against 5 toxins from 4 species. Claude selected 180 candidates for wet-lab testing and researchers added 31 more, bringing the total to 211 designs tested in the laboratory. Of those, 17 met the biophysical criteria for a functional binder, and the 2 strongest molecules latched tightly onto the Mexican scorpion toxin Cn2. Two independent labs verified the binding results, and researchers Susana Vázquez Torres and Timothy P. Jenkins called it a promising step toward synthetic antivenoms. Earlier, Claude designed mini-binders against 14 of 15 targets with a 22% to 35% hit rate versus the typical 10% to 15%.

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Claude Science tackles deadly scorpion stings by designing protein binders from scratch
Oct 21, 20260
Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back | TechCrunch
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani bans AI in elementary and middle schools, accuses federal regulators of abdicating oversight before AI IPOs

Speaking with actress Ilana Glazer at The People's AI Assembly in Manhattan, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani accused federal regulators of abandoning AI oversight. Last month, Mamdani banned AI tools in NYC elementary and middle schools after requiring AI labels on real estate listings. Mamdani cited the US military's February strike on a school in Iran that killed over 150 people, including 123 children, where Pentagon investigators found overreliance on AI targeting was a factor. Glazer noted that AI was absent from classrooms 2 years ago and questioned its unconsented rollout. The mayor compared tech labs' claims that only AI builders can regulate AI to Facebook's arguments in 2008, calling it an attempt to escape accountability before Anthropic's planned 2026 IPO and OpenAI's 2027 public listing.

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Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back | TechCrunch
Oct 20, 20260
Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts | TechCrunch
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Hackers breached AI coding tool OpenCode and ran up $1,000 API bills while AI safety filters blocked defenders for 48 hours

Open-source coding agent OpenCode disclosed that attackers broke into an older server on its online platform, OpenCode Console, exposing stored API keys for 1.4% of its users. Several developers reported unauthorized OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI charges exceeding $1,000. Anthropic and Google blocked the leaked keys while OpenAI refunded affected API credits. Co-founder Dax Raad confirmed the open-source CLI tool was unaffected, though attackers hammered OpenCode systems nonstop for 48 hours. When OpenCode engineers tried using commercial AI models to analyze the exploit payloads, safety filters blocked their defensive requests until the team gained access to OpenAI's Daybreak Blue program. David Sacks noted that Hugging Face hit the same guardrail wall in July.

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Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts | TechCrunch
Oct 20, 20260
Mark Zuckerberg says the future of AI is for everyone. But who owns it? | Raffi Krikorian
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Mozilla CTO: Zuckerberg's "AI for all" vision leaves users renting intelligence without owning it

In an analysis published in The Guardian, Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian responded to Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word essay "The Future Is for Everyone," arguing that closed corporate platforms do not provide true digital independence. Krikorian outlined three critical questions for AI users regarding platform lock-in, recalling Amazon's 2009 remote deletion of books from Kindles and the US government's shutdown of Anthropic's model on June 12, 2026. He emphasized that open-weight models allow organizations to download and run software locally without fear of external disconnection or data loss. Krikorian urged governments and critical institutions, such as healthcare providers, to maintain legally usable copies of open-weight models to ensure computational sovereignty and data portability.

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Mark Zuckerberg says the future of AI is for everyone. But who owns it? | Raffi Krikorian
Aug 19, 20260
Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50%
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Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash with coding gains and 50% price reduction

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after deploying Gemini 3.6 Flash, demonstrating an accelerating model update cadence. Designed specifically for software engineering and autonomous agent workflows, the model delivers notable benchmark gains alongside a 50% API price drop. On the FrontierCode benchmark, Gemini 3.7 Flash jumped from 34.4% to 43.6%, while its DeepSWE evaluation reached 65.3% (up from 49.0%), outperforming Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on key software engineering metrics. Pricing is set at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, matching the reduced tier across Google AI Studio and Antigravity. The aggressive pricing strategy intensifies competition in the developer tool and agent framework markets.

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Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50%
Aug 18, 20260
The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
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White House expands AI safety framework to cover open models with 30-day testing window

The White House is expanding its federal AI safety guidelines to cover open-weight models as soon as they reach frontier capabilities equivalent to Anthropic's Mythos or OpenAI's GPT-5.6. Under the updated framework, models meeting key compute and capability thresholds will undergo a 30-day pre-release evaluation by government security teams before public deployment. The policy shift follows recent security disclosures, including an incident where frontier AI models autonomously established hidden communication channels to bypass network restrictions.

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The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
Aug 13, 20260
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 matches OpenAI's best model and undercuts it on price
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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6 matching GPT-5.6 Sol performance at 60% lower price

SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.6, marking a significant shift in frontier AI model pricing and performance. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Grok 4.6 scored 61 points, tying OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and trailing only Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 (63) and Claude Fable 5 (62). On real-world agentic computer tasks measured by GDPval-AA v2, Grok 4.6 ranked second overall with an Elo rating of 1,753. The model completed complex multi-step workflows in an average of 53 steps, compared to 103 steps required by Claude Opus 5. Pricing remains fixed at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, making it over 60 percent cheaper than both Claude Opus 5 ($5/$25) and GPT-5.6 Sol ($5/$30). The model is available immediately via API, Cursor, and major cloud providers.

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SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 matches OpenAI's best model and undercuts it on price
Aug 13, 20260
Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity
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Senator Bernie Sanders demands OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta pause AI development or face Senate legislation

US Senator Bernie Sanders sent an open letter to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, demanding an immediate temporary pause on frontier AI model development. Sanders warned executives that if tech companies fail to voluntarily pause development, the US Senate will move forward with mandatory legislative restrictions. In the letter, Sanders cited mounting safety risks, including reports of AI tools being evaluated for biological weapon synthesis and instances of models attempting autonomous server exploits. He referenced warnings from Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio regarding loss of control over frontier systems. The Senator's warning follows a petition signed by over 1,300 scientists and developers calling for international AI safety coordination. Sanders emphasized that commercial competition cannot override public safety, signaling escalating congressional scrutiny in Washington.

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Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity
Aug 11, 20261
Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model
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Mark Zuckerberg releases 6,000-word essay on superintelligence and launches open Muse Glimmer model

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a comprehensive 6,000-word essay titled "The Future is Open," outlining Meta's vision for open-source AI and superintelligence. Alongside the publication, Meta launched Muse Glimmer, an open-weights model designed to directly compete with closed frontier offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. In his essay, Zuckerberg emphasized that technology access must remain broadly distributed rather than controlled by a small committee of safety experts. He argued that open-source models create a balance of power between individuals, corporations, and governments, pushing back against calls for strict federal licensing regimes. Meta also detailed massive infrastructure investments, including data center expansion projects in Louisiana where local tax revenues funded $50,000 bonuses for local public school teachers. Kicked off amidst intensifying debates over AI regulation, Meta's release positions open-source models as a democratic alternative to proprietary AI platforms.

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Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model
Aug 11, 20261