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This isn’t the first time music publishers have sued a big AI company, but the scale makes it worth your attention. Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed sweeping new lawsuits against Anthropic.  The publishers claim that Anthropic pirated tens of thousands of copyrighted songs to train Claude (via Business Insider). This chatbot has become quite popular for its accuracy and ability to handle complex tasks. Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends So what exactly do Sony and Warner claim? The companies filed their 48-page lawsuit late Friday in federal court in Northern California, claiming this is one of the largest…

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. If you’re looking for a way to share your love of cars with your kids, and the floor of every room in your house is already a minefield of Lego bricks and errant Hot Wheels, there’s a new alternative that will also teach them how cars work. Thames & Kosmos, a company that specializes in educational toys, has a model car kit with a working engine, transmission, differential, and suspension. Even better, the engine is a V8…

Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don’t know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, content cut from Portal 2, and a build of a game called F-Stop that’s set in the Portal universe but is built around a camera mechanic.The leak also includes titles from third-party developers. Early versions of Call of Duty and Resident Evil installments have been dug up, as have builds of Mirror’s…

Image by Slate Auto. For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about whether Electrek readers believed the announcement of Ford’s upcoming, all-electric $30,000 Fathom pickup would sink Bezos-backed startup Slate Auto before it even got to set sail. After nearly 2,700 responses, here’s what you told us. In case you missed the survey, the question read, “Now that we know the Ford Fathom electric truck will be just a few thousand dollars more than the bare-bones Slate, is the writing already on the wall? In other words: did Ford’s Fathom just kill the Slate before it arrived?” Here’s…

The leak contains beta builds and finished games from Valve and third-party developers. Steam A treasure trove of Steam data has been leaked, which seemingly contains everything that was published on Steam between 2003 and 2013. The leak totals more than 12TB in scale and includes beta builds and completely finished games from Valve’s own franchises, including Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Portal. A GitHub catalog has compiled most of the titles, which also includes games from major franchises like Call of Duty, Fallout and Civilization, as well as those from indie developers. Someone leaked 12…

Practical buyers are supposed to choose space, comfort, and proven dependability, not rear-biased handling, a turbocharged inline-six, and an interior designed to challenge luxury brands. That is what makes this SUV such an interesting contradiction. It costs thousands less than established premium alternatives and delivers the upscale experience many buyers want, yet its tight third row, limited cargo space, and complicated early history make it far from the obvious family choice. Even so, sales are rising, suggesting buyers have decided that practicality is about more than fitting the most luggage behind the third row. Luxury Buyers Are Starting To Question…

Or you could try a Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4×4 (saloon) or an Escort RS Cosworth (hatch); there are some fabulous examples around, but values have soared. What to look forRust in peace From 1985 some panels were galvanised and from 1987 the boot lid was made from plastic; earlier ones were steel. Major rot is unusual, but check the sills, and the wing seams on post-1988 cars. Advertisement – Article continues belowEngine room Of its three engines, the WR is the most troublesome and the RR is the most reliable (and the most costly to buy parts for). Worn…

It’s no secret that new cars have generally gotten more expensive, a fact illustrated by the increase in the average price of brand-new cars in the US. Having sat at around the $30,000 mark just over a decade ago, this figure has since ballooned to the $50k ballpark. That’s a lot of money in anyone’s book, so you’ll want plenty of car for your money as a result. In the real world, this kind of cash will only get you a base BMW 3 Series, and even comfortably short of a base Lexus GX SUV. Thanks to the used market,…

Fans of manual transmissions got a bit of a scare back in July, following Honda’s announcement that its Civic Si and the Acura Integra A-Spec won’t be around for 2027. Naturally, folks started to speculate on the potential end for these two models, implicitly meaning that only the Civic Type R and Integra Type S would be left to carry the manual in the automaker’s lineup. And with demand for manuals continuing to fall across the board, it wouldn’t have been farfetched for that to become a reality. As it turned out, though, things might not be looking so dire…

It might have three battery-electric vehicles in its lineup all of a sudden, but Subaru isn’t ready to settle on that tech just yet. CarBuzz has just found a patent that shows the Japanese automaker is still working on hydrogen power like its partners at Toyota. This patent isn’t for the power, but rather, for ways to make it safer. Subaru Wants To Make Crashes Safer, Even With New Fuels Subaru hydrogen patentSubaru It’s a simple idea. Subaru’s invention describes making part of the structure that holds the electric drive motor in place break in a very particular way. That…