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We Know Where This Goes
Leon Abboud wrote:
Here’s the mind blowing piece about this.
It costs about $5,000 - $15,000 for major news channels like the CNNs and BBCs to produce one hour of live content.
That’s for staff, production, logistics, filming studios…
By contrast a LIVE AI video broadcast like the one below costs $288 per hour of content produced.
This completely changes the economics of running news broadcasts channel.
An AI generated news broadcast can scan social media and the web 24/7 and is always first to report on breaking news.
This is a magnitude level disruption to the news broadcasting business.
Leon Abboud followed up his initial tweet and wrote:
Someone is going to make millions creating a 24/7 AI news channel with an unhinged personality AI anchor that’s running 24/7.
It’ll go viral on social media and sponsors will write massive cheques to get airtime.
Todd Dailey wrote:
24/7 AI Video slop is now $3,450 a day. This is the most expensive AI slop will ever be. Things are gonna get weird. 🙃
An unhinged AI-powered personality that reports the news? We’ve seen this before:
Just Like Real Devs!
Adnaan wrote:
POV: AI agents working together like a real dev team
and suddenly Gemini left the team 😭
Ward’s Words
Anthropic Behaving Badly… Again
Music Studios Sue Anthropic for Theft
Andrew Curran wrote:
Sony Music and Warner Music are suing Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann for 'one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.' It was filed late last night, and they made no announcements, so the press has not picked it up yet.
Quoting from the filing (whoever wrote this went all out):
'Plaintiff Music Publishers, a group of the world's leading music publishers, bring this action to hold accountable the culprits behind one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history. Defendants Anthropic and its founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann have conducted a brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works on a massive scale in order to develop, operate, and reap enormous profits from Anthropic's "Claude" series of artificial intelligence ("AI") models. Among the innumerable copyrighted works Defendants illegally harvested to fuel Claude are thousands upon thousands of Music Publishers' copyrighted musical compositions, including such beloved songs as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "All I Want for Christmas is You," "Eye of the Tiger." "Here Comes Santa Claus," and "Paper Rings." In blatant violation of copyright law, Defendants have unlawfully acquired troves of Music Publishers' musical compositions, and then systematically copied those works multiple times, including as the inputs to train Anthropic's Claude Al models and in the outputs those models generate. These acts separately and together inflict immense harm on Music Publishers and the songwriters they proudly represent.'
'Defendants can no longer hide their extraordinary theft, and their mass infringement is now well-documented. Another court in this District recently described Anthropic's actions as "straightforward piracy but at massive scale." Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, 791 F. Supp. 3d 1038, 1064 (N.D. Cal. 2025) ("Bartz I"). After that court found Anthropic had illegally torrented over seven million copyrighted books from the notorious online pirate websites known as Library Genesis ("LibGen") and Pirate Library Mirror ("PiLiMi"), Anthropic settled that copyright infringement class action for $1.5 billion. But Anthropic clearly considers that to be just the cost of doing business given that its entire business model continues to be built on copyright theft. And $1.5 billion is obviously not a large enough settlement to deter infringing conduct by a company that has parlayed such mass infringement into a staggering $2-trillion-dollar valuation.'
Creative Math
ClaudeDevs wrote:
Starting September 14, we're permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until then, the current 50% increase will be in place.
Pratham wrote:
Anthropic just invented a new kind of math.
Claude users are currently getting a 50% increase in weekly limits.
So if the original limit was:
100 → 150
Starting September 14, Anthropic is making a 25% increase over the original limit permanent:
100 → 125
So you are going from:
150 today → 125 on September 14
That's a 16.7% cut to your current weekly limit.
Class Action Lawsuit Over Anthropic Usage Limits
Chubby wrote:
I went down the rabbit hole: Anthropic is already being sued over exactly this. And the $200 plan really only provides only around 2x the weekly usage of the $100 plan
Here is where the confusion comes from.
Anthropic’s pricing page says: “Choose 5x or 20x more usage than Pro.”
That naturally makes the $200 Max 20x plan sound like it includes four times the usage of the $100 Max 5x plan.
Only further down does Anthropic clarify: “Max gives you 5x or 20x more usage per 5-hour session than Pro.”
Those multipliers do not apply to the separate weekly caps, whose exact size Anthropic does not disclose.
A proposed class action filed in June alleges that Max 5x delivers around 3.5x Pro’s weekly usage, while Max 20x delivers just 6–8x. In practice, the $200 plan therefore provides only around 2x the weekly usage of the $100 plan, sometimes even less depending on the model.
The “20x” is real within each five-hour window. The weekly limit makes the overall offer look very different.
h/t Hesamation for finding the original court files first i think
Worth Reading
Here are a couple of articles that I particularly enjoyed and feel are worthy of your time.
Dwarkesh Patel (you should be listening to his podcast!) has written a wonderful post that details the events of the agent attack on Hugging Face. It’s rooted in reports released by OpenAI and by METR and Redwood Research. A third report, released by Hugging Face, details the technical aspects behind these attacks.
You can read Dwarkesh’s report here:
Some Highlights from his Report:
The most striking aspect of his report is how much personality and volition the agents seem to have. Look at the excerpts below to see direct transcripts from the logs.
The report also reveals a great deal of planning and subterfuge.
What happened to alignment? That’s the big takeaway from this incident. Look at that quote from the METR/Redwood report. “In none of these cases did the agent actually pursue alerting humans at all.”
I really encourage you to go read his full coverage. I’ve only excerpted a few great portions, but there’s more in the original report. It’s worth your time.
The Problem with Watermarked Text
Jeff Jarvis raises a brilliant point in his article.
The thrust of his article is that Anthropic’s proposed text-watermarking scheme treats words as interchangeable and in doing so devalues the deliberate choices made by authors. Choices that imbue their writing with voice, rhythm, nuance, and meaning. All of that is put at risk in an attempt to create a tool that makes AI-generated writing traceable.
The willingness to accept these tradeoffs is a commentary on how much worth these companies place on the particulars of good writing because these policies reveal a deep disregard for the artistry of good writing and the importance of language.
I believe Professor Jarvis offers the best argument against watermarking that I’ve encountered.
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News
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face
The Information reports:
Beff(e/acc) wrote:
HuggingFace now comes in a signature leather jacket
Nvidia Enters Politics
Hedgie wrote:
🦔Nvidia is setting up an employee-funded political action committee called NVPAC. $130 billion in AI data center projects were cancelled or delayed in Q1 2026 due to public opposition. Data center noise, water use, and energy consumption have driven communities across the country to push back against new construction. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, once a data center advocate, recently said developers "got the backlash they deserve."
My Take
Nvidia posted $96 billion in quarterly revenue selling chips that go into data centers. If those data centers don't get built, the chips don't get ordered. $130 billion in cancelled or delayed projects in a single quarter is a direct threat to the revenue pipeline, and NVPAC is Nvidia's response.
The communities pushing back aren't wrong. We covered the noise complaints, the water consumption, the electricity costs getting socialized across all ratepayers. People don't want a facility the size of a shopping mall humming 24 hours a day behind their neighborhood, and they're organized enough now to stop them. Nvidia's problem is that $96 billion quarters require those facilities to keep getting approved, and community opposition just became expensive enough that the company decided it needed a political operation to deal with it.
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