Policy & Regulation

Two associates of Sam Bankman-Fried invested in Anthropic. After they were sentenced for fraud, their shares entered a legal black hole. ANGELA WEIS/Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Sam Bankman-Fried's Anthropic stake was liquidated in bankruptcy court two years ago…

Sam Bankman-Fried's Anthropic stake was liquidated in bankruptcy court two years ago. His friends' shares went down a different path.

Lawmakers can spend years trying to land seats on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. Several could finally get their chance in the next Congress. The panel with vast jurisdiction over health care, artificial intelligence, energy and telecommuni…

Company's three year pursuit of debt from non-existent address ended by Oxford judge

The federal government unveils a draft of sweeping new privacy laws designed to bolster protections including the "right to erasure" as well as address risks related to artificial intelligence.

Labor earnings taxes are the largest federal revenue source and the most directly threatened by AI displacement. A broad-based tax reform package can help maintain fiscal stability and support employment in an AI-augmented economy.

The publishers are claiming $150,000 per work infringed, across tens of thousands of works, meaning potentially well over a billion in damages if the case is successful. Copyright lawsuits aimed at AI firms are nothing new, with seemingly countless publishers…

One teenager's attempt to make sense of a possible legal settlement didn't just stay between him and ChatGPT—it ended up in a court file. The Washington Post's Miriam Waldvogel and Gerrit De Vynck report that the boy's chats, part of a lawsuit he brought agai…

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for “tens of thousands” copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus …

Red light, yellow light, green light. That was the simplest example of “Can we use AI?” policy guidelines I saw while touring high schools with my daughter last year. And now corporate version is starting to turn up, one of the first public ones being Clay’s …

One teenager's attempt to make sense of a possible legal settlement didn't just stay between him and ChatGPT—it ended up in a court file. The Washington Post 's Miriam Waldvogel and Gerrit De Vynck report that the boy's chats, part of a lawsuit he brought aga…

The music industry is once again accusing artificial intelligence giant Anthropic of intellectual property theft. Sony Music, Warner Chappell Music and several other labels filed a federal lawsuit Friday (Aug. 28) alleging that the Claude maker improperly use…

The music industry is once again accusing artificial intelligence giant Anthropic of intellectual property theft. Sony Music, Warner Chappell Music and several other labels filed a federal lawsuit Friday (Aug. 28) alleging that the Claude maker improperly use…

Anthropic is changing how much Claude Code usage subscribers receive, but its policy is difficult to interpret. The service uses weekly and five-hour limits rather than a simple prompt count. Weekly usage depends on factors such as conversation length, files,…

The Debian community has voted to allow members to use generative AI when creating their contributions, with the caveat that developers remain responsible for code quality. The Linux distro’s community recently decided to develop a policy on use of AI-assiste…

Anthropic will replace Claude Code’s temporary 50% usage boost with a smaller permanent increase on September 14, leaving Pro, Max, Team, and eligible Enterprise customers with about 17% less weekly capacity than they have today. The change affects weekly usa…

ChatGPT and similar tools are often used for personal questions, legal worries, health concerns, and emotional support. Those conversations can feel private, but they may be accessible through a phone search, a subpoena, discovery in a lawsuit, or a report by…

Meta has dominated the headlines as of late due to a groundbreaking federal lawsuit where the company agreed to pay an $18 billion settlement because of how the company's social media platforms harmed children and teens. Another important lawsuit Meta is faci…

A federal appeals court says it had no choice but to protect the in-home possession of AI-generated child pornography because of a 2002 Supreme Court ruling, even as judges warned that modern technology has blurred the legal lines drawn nearly 25 years ago. T…

A woman identified as "Jane Doe" sued Elon Musk's xAI this week, alleging the company trained its Grok AI chatbot on child pornography depicting her, in what appears to be the first case accusing xAI of training its AI on child sexual abuse material (CSAM). T…

Govern supported AI model, agent, and tool boundaries with deterministic pre-call policy and tamper-evident decision records

Kazakhstan's President Tokayev opened the new Kurultai, granting it broader legislative powers. This parliament will now help appoint key judicial and electoral officials. Deputies will also consider legislation on artificial intelligence and digital assets…

Sony and Warner have jointly sued Anthropic, accusing the AI company of training its Claude models on "tens of thousands" of their copyrighted songs without permission—which the suit calls "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual pr…

In a race that has centered on whether Ed Markey, 80, is too old for another U.S. Senate term, the Massachusetts Democrat’s answer to a recent debate question was especially striking. When asked whether he uses AI platforms like Claude or ChatGPT in his work,…