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# The Anthropic Squeeze, Money Moves, Regulation & Friction
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-08-31-am/
- Published: 2026-08-31T10:09:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-31T10:09:13.000Z
- Description: AI’s legal bills keep stacking up, Nvidia keeps stacking deals, and the music industry has apparently decided Anthropic is public enemy number one. Meta bought its way out of a courtroom, and CXMT is trying to sue its way off a blacklist. Everyone’s negotiating with somebody today.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-am, #scan

AI's legal bills keep stacking up, Nvidia keeps stacking deals, and the music industry has apparently decided Anthropic is public enemy number one. Meta bought its way out of a courtroom, and CXMT is trying to sue its way off a blacklist. Everyone's negotiating with somebody today.

> **$12.9B** — What Nvidia is paying for Hugging Face, a company that built its empire giving models away for free. *(The Next Web)*

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### Connected World

#### [Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude's training data](https://thenextweb.com/news/sony-warner-chappell-anthropic-lyrics-lawsuit-gema-munich-tdm?ref=adjacent.media)

Add music publishers to the list of plaintiffs lining up behind authors and news orgs — Anthropic's training data is becoming a legal liability. *(The Next Web)*

#### [Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann directly](https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/now-sony-music-publishing-and-warner-chappell-sue-anthropic-in-multi-billion-dollar-lawsuit-one-of-the-largest-and-most-blatant-ongoing-thefts-of-intellectual-property-in-history/?ref=adjacent.media)

Naming the CEO personally signals intent: this suit is aimed at leverage. *(Music Business Worldwide)*

#### [CrowdStrike's post-Mythos surge: Moat, momentum and the blast-radius test](https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/29/crowdstrikes-post-mythos-surge-moat-momentum-and-the-blast-radius-test/?ref=adjacent.media)

Anthropic's Mythos model is shaking up security vendor competition — good press for once. *(SiliconANGLE)*

#### [Anthropic will "permanently" raise weekly Claude Code limits by 25% on Sept. 14](https://x.com/claudedevs?ref=adjacent.media)

The fine print: that "boost" is a 17% cut from current levels — read the percentages carefully. *(X)*

### Connected World

#### [Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free AI models. Now Nvidia is buying it for $12.9 billion](https://thenextweb.com/news/hugging-face-nvidia-acquisition-thomas-wolf-interview?ref=adjacent.media)

Open-source AI's biggest evangelist just cashed out to the company that profits most from closed silicon. *(The Next Web)*

#### [Sources detail how Meta's $17.1B settlement with state AGs came together](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/technology/meta-states-settlement.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.9FA.YbRm.Bnnkb0t2vt5g&smid=nytcore-android-share&ref=adjacent.media)

Meta paid up rather than risk another courtroom loss after verdicts in LA and New Mexico went badly. *(The New York Times)*

#### [Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off US list](https://thenextweb.com/news/cxmt-sues-pentagon-1260h-list-europe-memory-dram?ref=adjacent.media)

A blacklisted chipmaker fighting back in US court opens a new front in the chip war — and tests how far "military company" designations can be legally challenged. *(The Next Web)*

#### ["We're not doing 30 bets a year": Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/29/were-not-doing-30-bets-a-year-vijay-pande-on-betting-small-after-running-4-billion-at-a16z/?ref=adjacent.media)

A mega-fund alum going deliberately small is its own commentary on VC's spray-and-pray era. *(TechCrunch)*

### Connected World

#### [Monopoly Round-Up: Did America Just Set Up an FDA for Big Tech?](https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-america-now-has?ref=adjacent.media)

Cattle ranchers revolting against Trump and KKR getting dinged by his own administration — strange bedfellows in the antitrust fight. *(BIG)*

#### [Treasury Bars Some Reporters From G20 Finance Meeting](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/business/reporters-denied-g20-meeting.html?ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

NYT, WSJ, and Bloomberg all locked out of the same meeting is not a scheduling accident. *(The New York Times)*

#### [California's legislature passes a bill exempting open-source OSes like Linux from a 2025 age-verification law](https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt?ref=adjacent.media)

Unanimous vote to carve out GPL/MIT/Apache software — a rare bipartisan acknowledgment that open source warrants different treatment. *(Tom's Hardware)*