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Matt Clifford is stepping down as founding chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, the UK government’s high-risk research funding body, five days after taking a full-time government-affairs job at Anthropic. Clifford announced his decision on September 7, 2026, and ARIA confirmed that he will remain in post on an interim basis, in agreement…

Microsoft moved for summary judgment on September 4, 2026 in the consolidated copyright litigation brought by book authors and news publishers over the training of large language models, telling a federal court in Manhattan that an expert’s review of 8.2 million Copilot conversations found only 24 responses containing at least 30 words matching the authors’…

The Seattle Times Co. and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on September 4, 2026, filing a federal copyright and trademark complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that accuses the companies of using the newspapers’ published work to train and operate AI products without permission or payment. The Seattle…