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Anthropic reaches deal with music publishers over lyric dispute

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Anthropic reaches deal with music publishers over lyric dispute Image: The Verge / ShutterstockAnthropic has made a deal to settle parts of a copyright infringement lawsuit ​​brought against the maker of the Claude AI model for allegedly distributing protected song lyrics. The agreement was signed off by US District Judge Eumi Lee on Thursday, requiring Anthropic to apply existing guardrails in the training …

The Verge 1.1k 2025-01-04

GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI

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GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeGitHub is going multi-model for its Copilot code completion and programming tool. Developers will soon be able to choose models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI for GitHub Copilot. GitHub is also announcing Spark, an AI tool for building web apps, and updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code, Copilot for Xcod…

The Verge 1.1k 2024-10-30

Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies

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Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies Image: The VergeThe ClaudeBot web crawler that Anthropic uses to scrape training data for AI models like Claude has hammered iFixit’s website almost a million times in a 24-hour period, seemingly violating the repair company’s Terms of Use in the process. “If any of those requests accessed our terms of service, they would have told you that use…

The Verge 1.1k 2024-07-26

Apple, Anthropic, and other companies used YouTube videos to train AI

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Apple, Anthropic, and other companies used YouTube videos to train AI Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeMore than 170,000 YouTube videos are part of a massive dataset that was used to train AI systems for some of the biggest technology companies, according to an investigation by Proof News and copublished with Wired. Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Salesforce are among the tech firms that used the “YouTube Subt…

The Verge 812 2024-07-17

Anthropic has a fast new AI model — and a clever new way to interact with chatbots

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Anthropic has a fast new AI model — and a clever new way to interact with chatbots GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5, and now Claude 3.5 Sonnet. | Image: AnthropicThe AI arms race continues apace: Anthropic is launching its newest model, called Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which it says can equal or better OpenAI’s GPT-4o or Google’s Gemini across a wide variety of tasks. The new model is already available to Claude users on the web and on iOS, and An…

The Verge 596 2024-06-21

Anthropic’s AI now lets you create bots to work for you

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Anthropic’s AI now lets you create bots to work for you Image: The VergeAnthropic is releasing a new feature for its AI chatbot Claude that will let anyone create an email assistant, a bot to purchase shoes, or other personalized solutions. It’s called “tool use” (or the nerdier “function calling”), and it hooks up to any external API of your choosing. While I’m not a huge fan of the term “AI agents,…

The Verge 642 2024-05-31

OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic

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OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic Illustration: The VergeJan Leike, a key OpenAI researcher who resigned earlier this month citing “safety concerns,” has joined competitor Anthropic to “work on scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automated alignment research,” according to Leike’s post on X. Anthropic has positioned itself to be the antithesis of OpenAI: a pub…

The Verge 754 2024-05-29

OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful

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OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful Anthropic gives Claude more abilities. | Image: AnthropicWhile OpenAI is in the middle of an existential crisis, there’s a new chatbot update from Anthropic, the Google-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI engineers who left over disagreements about the company’s increasingly commercial direction as its Microsoft partnership went on. Anthr…

The Verge 778 2024-03-30

Universal Music sues AI company Anthropic for distributing song lyrics

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Universal Music sues AI company Anthropic for distributing song lyrics Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeMajor record label Universal Music Group and other music publishers have sued artificial intelligence company Anthropic for distributing copyrighted lyrics with its AI model Claude 2. The music publishers’ complaint, filed in Tennessee, claims that Claude 2 can be prompted to distribute almost identical lyr…

The Verge 411 2024-01-03

SBF’s Lawyers Want to Ask Caroline Ellison About FTX’s Anthropic AI Stake

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SBF’s Lawyers Want to Ask Caroline Ellison About FTX’s Anthropic AI Stake Sam Bankman-Fried’s attorneys asked Judge Lewis Kaplan, who’s overseeing the case, to grant them permission to ask former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison about whether she deleted Signal messages at FTX lawyers’ advice and what Anthropic AI’s recent fundraise means for FTX creditors.

Coindesk 1.1k 2023-12-10

DOJ Wants to Block Sam Bankman-Fried From Bringing Up Anthropic AI Raise in Court

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DOJ Wants to Block Sam Bankman-Fried From Bringing Up Anthropic AI Raise in Court The U.S Department of Justice wants the judge overseeing its case against Sam Bankman-Fried to block the defense team from introducing any evidence that his stake in artificial intelligence company Anthropic will benefit FTX creditors after the company’s recent fundraise.

Coindesk 462 2023-12-05