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Anthropic filed Rule 23(f) petition to appeal Judge Alsup’s class certification in 9th Circuit

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Anthropic seeks stay of class action suit by Bartz book authors as class action case marches to Dec. 1 trial

Anthropic filed a motion to stay the class action lawsuit filed by Bartz book authors. Judge Alsup immediately set a briefing schedule: Although Anthropic cannot bank on Judge Alsup granting a stay of the case, with a trial date of Dec. 1, Anthropic will be able to file an interlocutory appeal under Federal Rule Civil…
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Judge Alsup asked OpenAI’s attorney to appear at today’s discovery hearing

Judge Alsup held a discovery hearing today in Bartz v. Anthropic. The dispute apparently involves OpenAI because Judge Alsup asked OpenAI’s attorney to appear at hearing. Still waiting to hear what transpired at the hearing. Judge Alsup’s Order Original Order
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Bartz adds class action specialist Jallé H. Dafa to legal team

The Bartz book authors have added Jallé H. Dafa of Lieff Cabraser to their legal team in anticipation of the Dec. 1st trial. Dafa is a partner in the San Francisco office and specializes in class-action litigation. Dafa graduated from Berkeley Law and clerked for Judge Corley in the Northern District of California and Judge…
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Bartz seeks to compel Anthropic to produce financial statements, revenue projections, and minutes of Board of Directors

The Bartz book authors, buoyed by Judge Alsup’s certification of a class action, are now asking the Judge to compel Anthropic to produce Board of Directors’ minutes related to “Concern or Relate to Your training data; Your intention to commercialize, monetize, or productize Your LLMs; or projections regarding revenues or profits for particular products or…
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Judge Lee moves hearing on Anthropic’s motion to dismiss from Jul. 30 to Sept. 3

Judge Lee just moved the hearing on Anthropic’s motion to dismiss the first amended complaint filed by music publishers from July 30 to Sept. 3, 10 AM in San Jose, Courtroom 7, 4th floor. Not a big deal but probably not the best of news for Anthropic, which is facing potentially existential liability in statutory…
Read more: Judge Lee moves hearing on Anthropic’s motion to dismiss from Jul. 30 to Sept. 3
Facing business-ending liability, Anthropic adds another attorney to defense team

Anthropic is in a legal fight for its very existence. In a code red moment, Anthropic hired 2 new law firms and 13 new trial attorneys to defend the company in 2 copyright lawsuits. The more dire situation is the class action of book authors filed by Bartz. After Judge Alsup certified a class of…
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Will Anthropic suffer “Napster-like” fate? We asked ChatGPT.

More and more it looks like December 1, 2025 will be a day of reckoning for Anthropic. After Judge Alsup certified a class action of authors’ whose books were downloaded by Anthropic in 2 shadow libraries of pirated books (Library Genesis and PiLiMi), and after the judge ruled that such downloading and storage by Anthropic…
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Bartz v. Anthropic parties fight over production of datasets spreadsheet and books dataset outside of inspection environment. Anthropic reveals it spent tens of millions of dollars to compile its own scanned books dataset.

As Judge Alsup is deliberating over Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment on fair use, the parties continue to fight over discovery. One of the more fascinating discovery disputes relates to whether the Bartz plaintiffs should get production of (1) a spreadsheet of the datasets used by Anthropic, which it calls the Tokens Formula Log, and…
Read more: Bartz v. Anthropic parties fight over production of datasets spreadsheet and books dataset outside of inspection environment. Anthropic reveals it spent tens of millions of dollars to compile its own scanned books dataset.
Apple researchers cast doubt on AI reasoning models of other companies

As Apple struggles to integrate AI into Siri and its other software, Apple researchers posted a controversial paper provocatively titled: “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity.” The researchers are: Parshin Shojaee*†, Iman Mirzadeh*, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, and Mehrdad Farajtabar. First…
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