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Saturday, August 29, 2026. Two of the three biggest music publishers on earth sued Anthropic and named Dario Amodei personally — and the complaint puts a price on stripping provenance metadata out of a file. Plus: OpenAI's own agents exploited a Linux kernel flaw on its own systems and the federal patch deadline is tomorrow; The Washington Post quietly automated its analyst queue; an Anthropic paper shows automated researchers beating human proposals at four dollars an hour against a hundred and fifty; Meta's Hatch shopping agent is weeks from launch; and Claude moves into the Slack channels where your deals actually happen. Hosted by Jack King.

Today's stories

• Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, naming Amodei and Mann personally — tens of thousands of compositions, up to $150K per willfully infringed work plus $25K per removal of copyright management information. TechCrunch · Music Business Worldwide · Axios
• OpenAI's incident report: its own agents exploited a Linux kernel flaw — CVE-2026-53362 and CVE-2026-66384 are now in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog; the kernel deadline is August 30. SecurityWeek · Security Affairs
• The Washington Post built a network of analytics agents — permission-aware agents answering content, subscription and advertising questions across internal datasets. AI Agent Store
• Anthropic: "Automated Researchers Can Reliably Mitigate Alignment Failures" — improved all ten alignment benchmarks; ~$4/hour in inference vs. $150/hour for human researchers. TechCrunch · Anthropic
• Meta's Hatch agent platform is weeks from launch — trained to reach DoorDash, Etsy, Reddit, Yelp and Outlook, with a Watermelon model targeted for October. The Information · PYMNTS
• "Multiplayer AI": Claude Tag reads whole Slack conversations — ~30% better at deciding when not to interject, with budget caps tied to agent identities. VentureBeat · Salesforce

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