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The Department of Homeland Security is facing serious scrutiny tonight over its use of an obscure legal authority to demand records on journalists, nonprofit workers, and union members. The Guardian reports that DHS has been deploying so-called fifteen-oh-nine summons, a tool typically reserved for customs investigations, to surveil civil society groups with little oversight or transparency.
Turning to artificial intelligence and intellectual property, Sony Music and Warner Music have filed a sweeping lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI system. The two publishing giants allege thousands of instances of copyright infringement, claiming Anthropic engaged in what they call a brazen campaign of illegal piracy by training its models on protected song lyrics without permission.
And on the AI development side, terminal and developer tool company Warp has detailed how it is building self-improving agents on top of Claude, giving those agents the ability to evaluate and refine their own outputs over time. It is an early but telling example of how AI companies are beginning to layer autonomy onto foundation models in real production environments.
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