Sony and Warner sue Anthropic, Claude Code limits, Tencent's Hy4 - August 30, 2026
Two major music publishers take Anthropic to court, Claude Code's weekly limits shrink by 17 percent, and a logging flaw found with Claude lands a high-severity rating.
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Segment 1
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a brazen campaign of intellectual property theft
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/29/sony-music-warner-sue-anthropic-alleging-a-brazen-campaign-of-intellectual-property-theft/Anthropic is cutting Claude Code's current weekly limits by 17%
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-is-cutting-claude-codes-current-weekly-limits-by-17-percent/Introducing Hy4 Preview
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/29/hy4/Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66504Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City's State Network
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/berlin-refuses-to-pay-hackers-who-stole.htmlUS revises statements suggesting Chinese hackers attacked agencies
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/us-revises-statements-suggesting-chinese-hackers-attacked-agenciesCalifornia lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from 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-exemptFair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/fair-work-commission-condemns-ai-legal-advice/107089766Meta Tests Robots to Handle Data Center Work
https://decrypt.co/376843/meta-tests-robots-data-centerCVE-2026-78002: rsyslog RainerScript replace() heap buffer overflow
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/609Segment 12
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