Last week, a federal District Court judge largely rejected Anthropic’s demurrer to Reddit’s suit accusing it of improperly gathering user content to train its AI model Claude. Reddit, Inc. v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:25-cv-05643 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 19, 2026). In the 2025 lawsuit, Reddit accused Anthropic of breach of contract, interference with contract, and
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White House Moves Toward Voluntary AI Model Review Framework
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
The White House is moving closer to a voluntary framework under which AI companies would submit their most advanced models to the federal government before public release. The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director reportedly circulated the draft framework by to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, and those companies jointly submitted edits. Although the review…
Anthropic Suggests Global “Pause” on AI Development
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
AI giant Anthropic has suggested that the world temporarily “pause” on AI development because of AI tools’ ability for “‘recursive self-improvement’– that is, being able to make better and more powerful versions of itself. Recursive self-improvement is a bugbear of AI safety researchers, viewed as the key step for AI to become superintelligent and therefore…
Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report Highlights
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
I am a big fan of Verizon’s yearly Data Breach Investigations Report. I follow it closely, as it confirms what we are seeing in the field, and provides validation for defense strategies employed to protect against attacks. The 2026 Report was recently published, and as I have mentioned before, it is well worth reading.…