Sony sues Anthropic, Deezer logs 75K AI tracks daily, OpenAI chip cracks Nvidia
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Sources
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft techcrunch.com
This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic theverge.com
Sony Music 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 up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped. In total, the […]
Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU techcrunch.com
The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.
Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters theverge.com
As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derived from the work of human artists. While some of the people pumping out this kind of content immediately own up to using AI, others have denied using the technology […]
“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z techcrunch.com
Pande launched VZVC to make fewer, smaller bets after running a16z’s roughly $4 billion biotech practice, arguing biology is shifting from discovery to engineering. He contends open, shared datasets — not proprietary ones — are what will let AI actually reshape drug development and clinical trials.
(AINews) OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026 latent.space
Chatter around OpenAI’s internal roadmap suggests the company expects to clear its own AGI bar by late 2026, framed as an endgame moment for the current scaling era. The post rounds up the signals feeding that timeline across recent leaks and executive remarks.
How I built this bensbites.com
The fourth installment of Ben’s ‘How I built this’ series continues profiling founders shipping AI products, walking through the stack choices, prompts, and distribution tactics behind each launch. Format stays conversational, aimed at operators copying what works.
(AINews) Andrew Ng gets into AI Engineering latent.space
Ng is expanding DeepLearning.AI’s focus from model training into the applied AI engineering stack — prompts, agents, and evals — signaling the discipline has matured enough for mainstream curriculum. The move follows surging demand for practitioners who wire LLMs into production systems.
Who let the agents in bensbites.com
Shipping working agents no longer requires a coding background, with new no-code orchestration layers letting operators wire up tools, memory, and triggers directly. The piece argues the bottleneck has moved from engineering skill to knowing which workflows are worth automating.
References
NMPA — David Israelite, ‘A Make-or-Break Moment for AI Music Companies’ nmpa.org
Israelite distinguished between ‘good actors’ who license content and ‘bad actors’ who exploit it… companies like Udio and Klay have established licensing deals that value songwriter data, [while] Anthropic has consistently relied on a ‘fair use’ defense that Israelite rejects as ‘bogus’… the stakes are particularly high for Anthropic as it approaches a rumored IPO.
Wolters Kluwer Copyright Blog on Bartz v. Anthropic legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com
training on legally acquired works is ‘quintessentially transformative’ fair use, but downloading and storing pirated copies from shadow libraries is likely straight infringement.
Chartlex — Music Industry AI Lawsuits Tracker 2026 chartlex.com
Warner Music Group has emerged as a leader in settlement, exiting lawsuits against both Suno and Udio in late 2025 to secure licensing deals… In contrast, Sony Music remains the most aggressive litigant, doubling down in July 2026 with a new lawsuit against Udio asserting over 30,000 additional infringed works.
The Next Web thenextweb.com
a November 2025 ruling by a Munich court against OpenAI found that memorizing lyrics is an act of reproduction that is not covered by text and data mining exceptions, providing a persuasive (though non-binding) international counter-argument to the fair use defense.
The Decoder the-decoder.com
Amodei expressly authorized the use of pirated datasets, while Mann reportedly described the sourcing methods as ‘sketchy AF’ in internal communications… Anthropic engaged in ‘destructive scanning’ and used extraction tools to deliberately strip out copyright management information.
Music Business Worldwide — ‘Anthropic seeks partial dismissal in $3B lyrics suit’ musicbusinessworldwide.com
Anthropic has previously moved to dismiss secondary infringement claims… the company’s defense will likely hinge on the ‘transformative’ nature of AI training and the efficacy of internal guardrails designed to prevent copyrighted lyrics from being outputted directly to users.
GPU Insights — InfiniBand vs Ultra Ethernet 2026 gpuinsights.net
Ethernet has overtaken InfiniBand in total AI back-end networking sales as of late 2025… one engineer can manage 10,000 InfiniBand ports compared to only 4,000 for Ethernet due to complex manual tuning requirements.
dev.to — How Nvidia Spectrum-X ports InfiniBand tricks to Ethernet dev.to
The platform’s performance gains — reportedly 1.6x over off-the-shelf Ethernet — rely on a tightly coupled control loop between Spectrum-4 switches and BlueField-3 (or the newer BlueField-4) SuperNICs.
TradingView / StockStory — NVDA Q2 deep dive tradingview.com
Networking revenue reached $14.8 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2027 and grew approximately 18% sequentially… hitting an annual milestone of $31 billion for fiscal 2026, surpassing Cisco as the largest data center Ethernet switch vendor.
ServeTheHome — Spectrum-X multiplane at Hot Chips 2026 servethehome.com
The multiplane topology, now scaling toward 512,000 Rubin GPUs, can maintain 90% bandwidth during a network plane failure, detecting faults in 2.68 milliseconds — roughly 400 times faster than standard Ethernet-based systems.
RCR Tech — Interconnects: NVLink, UALink and CXL rcrtech.com
NVLink 5.0 delivers up to 1.8 TB/s of bidirectional bandwidth, significantly outpacing the 800 Gb/s per port offered by UALink 1.0… NVIDIA’s true advantage is its software ecosystem, specifically the NCCL communication library.
ValueAdd VC — OpenAI ‘Jalapeño’ beats Blackwell benchmarks valueaddvc.com
Custom silicon — such as OpenAI’s ‘Jalapeño’ — can outperform Blackwell by 1.5x to 1.9x in performance-per-watt for specific inference tasks, challenging the one-size-fits-all GPU factory narrative.
Music Week — Deezer streaming fraud data musicweek.com
Deezer now logs 75,000 AI-based tracks per day
Music Business Worldwide — Spotify AI Persona label musicbusinessworldwide.com
Spotify’s ‘AI Persona’ label… keeps them out of recommendations by default
Berklee — Velvet Sundown case study berklee.edu
creators officially admitted the project was a ‘synthetic music project’… described the project as an ‘ongoing artistic provocation’
r/EDM thread on Ian Asher reddit.com
linking the track to a pre-existing Suno generation by a user named ‘atmta’
thisseriesofours.com — AI witch hunt essay thisseriesofours.com
creators report feeling interrogated like ‘criminals’ for their speed or technical proficiency… detectors frequently produce ‘false positives,’ incorrectly labeling human-made music as AI-generated
WIPO Magazine — streaming farms report wipo.int
a defendant plead guilty to generating over $8 million in royalties by using AI to create hundreds of thousands of songs streamed billions of times by bots
