Two angles surfaced the same day (2026-08-05/06): Anthropic sought partial dismissal in the "Concord II" music-publishers' copyright suit, and a Euronews investigation ("Project Panama") detailed how Anthropic physically shredded scanned books to train Claude. Distinct from the $1.5B author copyright settlement already noted on Anthropic's standing synthesis (a different, earlier case). Watch: the Concord II dismissal ruling; further reporting on the book-shredding practice and whether other labs did the same; any read-through to Anthropic's IPO risk disclosures.
