Morning 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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Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude's training data

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

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

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

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

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Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free AI models. Now Nvidia is buying it for $12.9 billion

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

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

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

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

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Monopoly Round-Up: Did America Just Set Up an FDA for Big Tech?

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 (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

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