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The big AI story of the day, whoever it happens to
Legal
Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann are named as individual defendants in a copyright suit filed August 28 by Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music. It is not the first filing to name them, and Amodei is already contesting the personal claim in an earlier case.
Chandni Melwani
Aug 29, 2026
Legal
To defend banning Anthropic across the federal government, the Department of War produced four pages. It abandoned its backdoor-access theory in court, conceded Claude is no riskier than any other black box model, and rested the ban on one remaining factor it called trust.
Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 28, 2026
Money
OpenRouter sits between developers and 400-plus models, so it already knows which ones get picked and what they cost. That ledger now belongs to a payments company.
Chandni Melwani · Aug 24, 2026
Legal
The United States is not a party to xAI's lawsuit against Minnesota. It filed anyway, arguing the state law risks paralyzing the AI industry.
Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 23, 2026
Big Story
GitHub.com was degraded for 7 hours 47 minutes on August 17. Copilot stayed broken for four and a half of them, because a retry bug in VS Code kept hitting the service that had just come back.
Chandni Melwani · Aug 22, 2026
Products
If OpenAI's model estimates an account belongs to someone under 18, the teen experience applies, and the route back is identity verification.
Chandni Melwani · Aug 19, 2026
Money
Meta acquires AI agent startup Manus for $2B in fastest major tech deal closure (10 days). Inside the geopolitical complexity, competitive landscape, and why this signals the AI agent land grab has begun.
Chandni Melwani · Global · Dec 30, 2025
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