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Anthropic signs $111.34 million lease for SoMa high-rise building
Read more: Anthropic signs $111.34 million lease for SoMa high-rise buildingThings appear to be going well for Anthropic, despite still facing several copyright lawsuits. Earlier in January, Anthropic closed a $10 billion funding round, with a valuation of $350 billion. Then, last week came news that Anthropic signed a $111.34 million lease for an office building in SoMa, 300 Howard Street. According to SF Gate,…
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Anthropic raises $10B, valued at $350B.
Read more: Anthropic raises $10B, valued at $350B.As first reported by WSJ, Anthropic is raising $10 billion in funding, which values the company at $350 billion. WSJ says “Anthropic is expected to go public this year.” Meanwhile, Anthropic (1) reached a $1.5 billion settlement with the Bartz class (that will be up for the court’s final approval this spring), (2) is poised…
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John Carreyrou, book authors file copyright suit v. entire AI industry: Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI (of Elon Musk), and Perplexity. Copyright suits hit 70. (Could have been 75.)
Read more: John Carreyrou, book authors file copyright suit v. entire AI industry: Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI (of Elon Musk), and Perplexity. Copyright suits hit 70. (Could have been 75.)John Carreyrou and 5 other book authors (Lisa Barretta, Philip Shishkin, Jane Adams, Matthew Sacks, and Michael Kochin) ho opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic with the encouragement of ClaimsHero, an Arizona-based law firm that has specialized in claims aggregation, have filed today a copyright lawsuit against nearly the entire U.S. AI industry: The…
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Anthropic seeks clarification and order requiring Matthew Oppenheim to declare “no one at O+Z or at the Publishers who have had access to Protected Material [of Anthropic] under the Protective Order has used Protected Material to investigate future claims”
Read more: Anthropic seeks clarification and order requiring Matthew Oppenheim to declare “no one at O+Z or at the Publishers who have had access to Protected Material [of Anthropic] under the Protective Order has used Protected Material to investigate future claims”Anthropic is seeking clarification from Magistrate Judge van Keulen on the scope of the protective order. Specifically, “Anthropic seeks an order confirming that the Protective Order in this case, ECF 293, prohibits a receiving party’s use of Protected Material produced in this litigation for any purpose outside of the above captioned litigation, including to investigate,…
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Anthropic agrees with Bartz’s motion to limit ClaimsHero’s overtures to class members. Anthropic also suggests ClaimsHero is using Anthropic’s trademarks in way likely to cause confusion.
Read more: Anthropic agrees with Bartz’s motion to limit ClaimsHero’s overtures to class members. Anthropic also suggests ClaimsHero is using Anthropic’s trademarks in way likely to cause confusion.As invited by Judge Alsup, Anthropic has officially weighed in on the controversy brewing over a third-party firm named ClaimsHero’s overtures to Bartz class members. For more about this controversy, visit here: Anthropic agrees with Bartz book authors that the court should issue an order limiting ClaimsHero’s overtures to class members (apparently seeking to represent…
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Apple chooses Google’s AI model to power new Siri. Google AI model has least exposure to Shadow Library copyright lawsuits.
Read more: Apple chooses Google’s AI model to power new Siri. Google AI model has least exposure to Shadow Library copyright lawsuits.As Bloomberg first reported, Apple has chosen to use Google’s AI model to power the new Siri. Apple will pay Google $1 billion a year for use of its AI model. Meanwhile, Google pays Apple $20 billion a year to be the default search engine in Safari. Why this deal makes sense Putting aside the…
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Status of all 57 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 26, 2025): Apple hit with 3 lawsuits.
Read more: Status of all 57 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 26, 2025): Apple hit with 3 lawsuits.The U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies continue unabated. Here are the Top 5 news items: 1. Apple joins the copyright party. Although Apple has been roundly criticized for its slow development of Apple Intelligence, that hasn’t stopped book authors from suing Apple for copyright infringement in proposed class actions. In addition to the earlier…
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Does Concord Music now face claim preclusion on Anthropic’s alleged bittorrenting from shadow libraries
Read more: Does Concord Music now face claim preclusion on Anthropic’s alleged bittorrenting from shadow librariesThis week’s biggest decision in the AI copyright lawsuits was from Judge Lee in Concord Music v. Anthropic. Judge Lee denied Concord Music’s motion for leave to file a Second Amended Complaint to add new allegations related to Anthropic’s alleged bittorrenting from shadow libraries (that were revealed in the unrelated case, Bartz v. Anthropic). Anthropic…