The Latest Breaking News from Anthropic

US Judge Backs Using Copyrighted Books To Train AI

A US federal judge has sided with Anthropic regarding training its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books without authors' permission, a decision with the potential to set a major legal precedent in AI deployment.

International Business Times · Jun 24, 2025

Anthropic wins ruling on AI training in copyright lawsuit but must face trial on pirated books

In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books

The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2025

AI training is ‘fair use’ federal judge rules in Anthropic copyright case

Training AI on books Anthropic bought is okay, but downloading pirated ones is not, judge says.

Fortune · Jun 24, 2025

OpenAI warns its future models will have a higher risk of aiding bioweapons development

The company is boosting its safety testing as it anticipates some models will reach its highest risk tier.

Fortune · Jun 19, 2025

Elon Musk's xAI is projected to lose $13 billion in 2025 — AI project burns $1 billion a month in expenditures

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is rapidly burning through cash — spending $1 billion a month and projecting $13 billion in losses for 2025 — as it races to build massive AI infrastructure and catch up with rivals.

Tom’s Hardware · Jun 19, 2025

China’s MiniMax LLM costs about 200x less to train than OpenAI’s GPT-4, says company

The claims may spook investors who’ve sunk billions into leading AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

Fortune · Jun 18, 2025

Sam Altman says Meta is offering obscene $100M bonuses to poach AI employees and even bigger salaries — OpenAI CEO says ‘none of our best people decided to take them up on that’

Meta is reportedly offering a $100 million signing bonus to senior OpenAI talents, but none have taken it yet.

Tom’s Hardware · Jun 18, 2025

Anthropic fires back at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, says it has never claimed only Anthropic can build safe and powerful AI

Anthropic has hit back at claims made by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in which he said Anthropic thinks AI is so scary that only they should do it.

Tom’s Hardware · Jun 17, 2025

Nvidia CEO slams Anthropic's chief over his claims of AI taking half of jobs and being unsafe — ‘Don’t do it in a dark room and tell me it’s safe’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang disagrees with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's prediction that AI will wipe out nearly 50% of white-collar jobs.

Tom’s Hardware · Jun 14, 2025

Meta bets big on start-up Scale AI with €12 billion investment and hires its co-founder

Scale AI has helped major tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft prepare the data they use to train AI models.

Euronews · Jun 13, 2025