Suno Rebuilds Its Music AI on Licensed Songs as the Lawsuits Pile Up
The dispute between AI music generators and the record industry has been fought mostly in courtrooms, over whether training a model on copyrighted songs is fair use or theft. On…
SoftBank Will Repay the Rest of Its $40 Billion OpenAI Bridge Loan Early
SoftBank Group has spent the year levering up one of the largest bets in its history, and on September 9 it laid out the next step in that chain: repaying…
Meta Asks Users to Hand Email, Calendar and Bank Cards to a New AI Agent
Vishal Shah had a deadline he did not want to miss again. Meta’s product executive had originally planned to launch the company’s personal AI agent in April, then pushed it…
Google Cloud and Accenture Send AI Engineers Into Customer Offices
The pitch Accenture has made to big companies for decades is simple enough: hire us, and we will handle the unglamorous work of making the software actually function inside your…
OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Images 2.5 to Every User
The images arrived without much ceremony. On September 9, OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, its newest image generation model, and made it available to every ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex…
An Anthropic Researcher Quits, Warning AI Is Outpacing Its Safeguards
Jacob Coxon did not leave quietly. The 27-year-old British researcher, who spent three years working on pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation on Tuesday with a post on…
Cognition Raises $2 Billion as Coding Agents Go Mainstream
Scott Wu built his company on a simple claim: a software engineer that never stops. On September 8, Cognition AI said it had raised $2 billion in a Series E…
OpenAI Says an Internal Model Cracked a Millennium Prize Problem
The answer arrived about 88 hours after the first agents started running. OpenAI said on Tuesday that a swarm of roughly 10,000 coordinated AI agents had solved a version of…
Anthropic Declines to Hand Its Newest Model to UK Safety Body
When Anthropic prepared its latest model for release, one established partner was left off the list. The company declined to submit the model to Britain’s AI Safety Institute for pre-deployment…
Stolen Session Keys Drain Anthropic Subscribers’ Tokens
Grant De Swardt noticed the problem the way most users do: the numbers did not add up. The independent AI consultant in East Sussex, England, was not using his Claude…
