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Co-founder of Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, and formerly a researcher at OpenAI.
Anthropic's Benjamin Mann said at the opening of its fifth Asia-Pacific office that the company will keep some oversight of how customers use its top models. Buyers asking for sovereign Claude should budget for monitoring that stays, with local data residency still undated.
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Sony and Warner want evidence about which founder approved which corpus, and that request is aimed at internal records rather than model weights. The complaint is effectively a test case for any lab whose pipeline cannot answer that question per corpus.
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The suit names Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants and rests on what Claude prints out, which turns training-data provenance into a line item for anyone shipping features on top of it.
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The publishers want $150,000 for every alleged infringement and say Claude will recite lyrics verbatim, which moves output filtering into the column of legal controls rather than polish for anyone shipping a text feature.
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Sony Music and Warner have sued Anthropic over pirated music and lyrics, joining Universal. For publishers the live question is which crawlers still get the full text, and what evidence would show a training promise held.
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell want up to $150,000 for each of thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of songs, and they argue in the filing that the $1.5bn Anthropic already paid was too small to deter anyone valued at $2 trillion.
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