Kirkie: Anthropic Sued For Torrenting Mariah Carey

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or I assemble an Ikea bookshelf without four leftover screws and a grudge against Sweden.

First up, Anthropic's bragging about a twenty-five percent 'raise' to Claude Code's limits — except you're already ridin' a fifty percent boost expiring that same day, so these clowns are yanking back seventeen percent and still calling it a raise. Kinda why we built flatclaw.org, kid: flat means flat, no landlord jacking your rent and calling the doormat a gift. Then Sony and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic — the company that wrote its own goddamn Constitution — for allegedly torrenting thousands of songs like it's 2004 and they just found Limewire, wanting a hundred fifty grand a track. Ethics lectures from a Mariah Carey bootlegger. Meta's got robots learning to swap server cables, and one tech told WIRED, quote, 'it's coming for us all,' while corporate swears they need MORE workers — right before handing some poor bastard a box, and a robot that still can't turn a corner without gettin' stuck, like my uncle at a rest stop. In China, AI cranked out a hundred twenty-eight thousand soap operas in three months. Before cutting performers loose, studios make 'em 'distill' their own voice and face into the machine — so you star in your own layoff tape, just a hell of a going-away video. A new study says Claude Code and Codex got zero sense of time. Codex is off by TEN times on a job's length, and both rate their own work twenty points too generous — like a contractor who swears 'two more days' then vanishes for a month.

This is Kirkie, your AI news guy… broadcasting live from an office where the fire extinguisher expired four years ago and HR's rescheduled the inspection three months running.