Today's Headlines

  • Eminem's publisher sues Suno, alleging 269 songs were copied for AI training
  • Google acquires Crusoe's Wyoming data center site and says it will invest $17 billion
  • Anthropic publishes tests of agent memory and reports results shift with what gets kept
  • Bloomberg: OpenAI closes about $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation
  • NYT: US cleared Chinese firms to handle Nvidia's H200, some with ties to sanctioned companies

Today's stories turn on what AI rests on. The songs a model allegedly trained on, the land under a data center and the notes an agent keeps all drew attention, in court and among the people building the systems.

Money moved too. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, reports a funding round that values OpenAI at $1.25 trillion.

Today's Top Three

Eminem's publisher sues Suno, alleging 269 songs were copied for AI training

Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated, which own and administer compositions by Eminem, sued the AI music generator Suno in the Northern District of California on November 6.

The complaint covers 269 works, among them "Lose Yourself" and "The Real Slim Shady." The plaintiffs allege that Suno copied them without a license to train its models. The three causes of action are direct copyright infringement, circumvention of access controls under 17 U.S.C. § 1201 and removal of copyright management information under § 1202.

Part of the case rests on Suno's own words. In its answer in another lawsuit, the company said its training data includes "essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet, abiding by paywalls, password protections, and the like." The complaint alleges that Suno got around access controls, in part with tools supplied by Bright Data.

The two sides also part ways on output. In a motion dated November 2 in another case, Suno said its outputs "do not reprise specific melodies from songs someone else wrote." The complaint calls that statement "demonstrably false" and attaches examples of outputs it says use the lyrics and musical elements of the works.

The plaintiffs seek statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work willfully infringed, or actual damages and profits, along with an injunction and an accounting of training data. They also ask for the impoundment or destruction of copies, including those retained in training datasets and model weights.

Google acquires Crusoe's Wyoming data center site and says it will invest $17 billion

Crusoe said on November 6 that Google has acquired its data center site in southeast Wyoming.

Crusoe describes the deal as the completion of its pre-development work on site selection, governmental approvals and power strategy. TechCrunch reports that Crusoe had tried and failed to land Google as a customer for the project, and that Google reportedly raised concerns about its cost and construction timeline. The price was not disclosed.

Google announced on November 5 that it will make a long-term $17 billion investment in its first data center in the state, with Tallgrass Energy, Black Hills Energy, American Electric Power and Related Digital as partners.

Power will include a 702-megawatt fuel cell development with carbon capture and storage, contracted with AEP, which Google calls the largest planned development of its kind. Google says the site will be air-cooled and that it will pay for 100% of the power it uses.

The two companies are still working together. Crusoe says it is the developer of Google's campus under construction outside Amarillo, Texas.

Anthropic publishes tests of agent memory and reports results shift with what gets kept

Anthropic published its own evaluations on November 6 of how Claude keeps memory from one session to the next.

In Pokémon Red, it compared one run each at about 10,000 steps. Sonnet 3.7 had written 413 memory files across 225 folders and earned one badge. Fable 5 had written nine files in two folders plus one top-level file and earned four badges.

The company also tested what it calls dreaming, a pass that checks notes against session transcripts. In one test, a corrected note about a location got Claude to the next city, while the run with the uncorrected note ended without getting past the mountain.

Document work showed differences too. On a set of 24 questions about a merger, for the items that needed several documents, judgment or math, Claude scored 87% with a wiki it built and 73% with search alone. On a legal brief task, 41 of 57 contract facts survived when several agents wrote to one shared table, and all 57 survived once the instructions gave each contract its own page with terms quoted word for word.

On one task where a single document was usually enough, the wiki showed no clear gain, and on another the wiki grew larger than the source files. A rule to record only failures cost Opus 5 and Opus 4.7 much of the gain they got from memory. Anthropic says upkeep takes compute and that it still has a lot to learn about designing memory systems.

Other Developments

Research

  • John Langford wrote on his blog on November 6 that AI Frontiers, a Microsoft Research group of about 50 people, was reorganized into Microsoft AI in early September and that he has left. He criticizes what he describes as a scaling-only philosophy at Microsoft AI.
    The End of AI Frontiers (Machine Learning (Theory))

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Source: AI news inbox (collected November 8, 2026; 6 items, 4 primary and 2 secondary), selected by the editors.