Anthropic announced it will permanently raise Claude Code's standard weekly usage limits by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans starting September 14. However, this replaces a temporary 50% boost currently in effect, meaning users will actually see a 17% reduction in usage compared to what they have today. Anthropic initially framed the change as an increase before deleting the post and issuing a clarification acknowledging the cut.
OpenAI said it will stop supplying its AI models to coding startup Cursor, effective Nov. 12, 2026, after SpaceX completed a $60 billion acquisition of Cursor earlier this month. Cursor CEO Michael Truell said OpenAI models handle about 5% of Cursor's user traffic and that talks are underway to resolve the dispute.
The Washington Post reports that private conversations users have had with AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are increasingly surfacing as evidence in court proceedings. In one case, a financial executive facing federal fraud charges tried to shield his Claude conversations from prosecutors, but a judge ruled that attorney-client privilege did not apply since the chatbot is not a lawyer and his own attorneys hadn't directed him to use it.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a joint lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company illegally torrented and scraped thousands of copyrighted musical compositions to train its Claude models. The publishers are seeking a jury trial and statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work plus $25,000 for each removal of copyright management information, a total that could reach into the billions.
Across decades of reboots, films and animated series, Peter Cullen has consistently returned as the voice of Optimus Prime, providing continuity to the Transformers franchise regardless of who else is involved in a given production. His presence has become a defining thread linking the many different creative visions the property has cycled through.
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and other music publishers have filed suit against Anthropic and its co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann in a California federal court, accusing the AI company of torrenting and scraping copyrighted song lyrics and sheet music to train its Claude models. Anthropic says it disagrees with the claims and plans to fight the case in court.
A developer published a Shadertoy demo introducing a recursive variant of jittered Voronoi diagrams that produces fractal-like cell boundaries, similar in spirit to Worley noise. The method works by generating hierarchical layers of randomly jittered grid points, each finer layer tracing its 'parent' site in the coarser layer above, so that following parent links upward defines each cell's fractal boundary without needing to explicitly build a Voronoi diagram.
Greg Kroah-Hartman previewed data for his Kernel Recipes 2026 talk in Paris showing that AI and LLM tools scanning the Linux kernel codebase have driven a sharp rise in reported vulnerabilities. Releases that once averaged around 500 fixed CVEs are now approaching 2,000, with Linux 7.3 potentially crossing that mark.
A report explains that streaming platforms must compress 4K video heavily to send it over the internet without buffering, which strips out fine details like film grain, shadow gradients, textures and complex motion data. A 1080p Blu-ray, by contrast, uses a much higher bitrate and preserves that visual information more faithfully, so it can look sharper in demanding scenes despite having fewer pixels.
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Kalshi's bid to stop Nevada from regulating its prediction market operations, siding with the state's gambling regulators and attorney general who sued Kalshi in February for allegedly operating without a sports gambling license. The ruling adds to a patchwork of conflicting state and federal legal outcomes for Kalshi, which also faces action from Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and Arizona, even as a separate court found New Jersey lacks authority to regulate the platform.
At Copenhagen's TechBBQ conference, founders and investors repeatedly returned to questions of AI sovereignty, spurred by an earlier incident where Anthropic's models Mythos and Fable became unavailable to users outside Europe. Attendees debated whether Europe should build and own its own AI infrastructure rather than depend on U.S. and Chinese providers, with reactions ranging from serious concern to relative indifference.
A recent Apple Vision Pro adopter shares that the headset's standout use case is watching movies and TV shows while lying down, echoing comments Tim Cook has made about his own viewing habits. The writer notes that while Vision Pro's broader software experience—like multitasking and typing—remains clunky, its content consumption strength, particularly for reclined viewing, is what keeps the device relevant despite its bulk.
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