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Amodei is named again, and has already moved to dismiss

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

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Judge rules Pentagon's Anthropic risk label unconstitutional

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.

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Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 28, 2026

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The Justice Department told a federal judge that Minnesota's nudification ban sweeps too broadly, without joining the case.

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.

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Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 23, 2026

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Amodei is named again, and has already moved to dismiss

Judge rules Pentagon's Anthropic risk label unconstitutional

The Justice Department told a federal judge that Minnesota's nudification ban sweeps too broadly, without joining the case.

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