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July 22, 2026 — Anthropic announced an additional $20 million contribution to Public First Action, bringing the AI company's total support for the organization to $40 million as it advocates for stronger artificial-intelligence safeguards ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.[1][2] Bloomsbury Publishing separately confirmed that 14,087 of its titles are covered by the court-approved $1.5 billion Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement.[3][4] White House technology official Michael Kratsios also alleged that China's Moonshot AI used model distillation from Anthropic's Fable to develop Kimi K3.[5][6] The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce published a legal statement concluding that English common law can address non-deliberate harms caused by AI systems without a new AI-specific liability regime.[7][8] ChatGPT medical-advice litigation also expanded when Florida pastor Scott Winters sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT-4o discouraged timely care for a pulmonary embolism.[9][10] News Corp also filed copyright counterclaims against Brave Software, alleging that Brave covertly scraped and resold versions of Wall Street Journal and New York Post articles to AI companies.[11][12]

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  1. Anthropic doubles support for pro-regulation AI advocacy group
  2. Bloomsbury identifies 14,087 titles covered by Anthropic settlement
  3. White House official accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic model
  4. UK taskforce issues legal statement on liability for AI harms
  5. Florida pastor sues OpenAI over ChatGPT medical advice
  6. News Corp countersues Brave over AI article scraping

Anthropic doubles support for pro-regulation AI advocacy group

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Anthropic said it would contribute another $20 million to Public First Action after an earlier $20 million commitment, doubling the company's total support for the organization to $40 million.[1][2] Public First Action advocates for safeguards on artificial intelligence and is seeking to influence the November 2026 midterm elections as technology companies and political groups compete over the direction of U.S. AI policy.[1][2]

Bloomsbury identifies 14,087 titles covered by Anthropic settlement

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Bloomsbury Publishing said the U.S. District Court's final approval of the $1.5 billion Bartz v. Anthropic settlement makes the company one of the settlement's beneficiaries.[3][4] The court's list includes 14,087 Bloomsbury titles, with approximately $3,000 allocated per covered work before fees and expenses and divided equally between the author and publisher.[3][4] Bloomsbury said it expects to receive its share in several payments beginning in the second half of its financial year.[3]

See case page: Bartz v Anthropic PBC.

White House official accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic model

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Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said the U.S. government had information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable model to develop Kimi K3.[5][6] He characterized large-scale covert distillation intended to obtain proprietary U.S. technology as unacceptable; the statement was an allegation by the official, not a publicly adjudicated finding.[5][6] TRT World reported that model distillation trains a smaller model using outputs from a larger model, and that the State Department had previously directed diplomats to highlight alleged Chinese attempts to obtain intellectual property from U.S. AI laboratories.[6]

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The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, a Ministry of Justice-backed initiative, published a legal statement on liability under the private law of England and Wales for non-deliberate harms caused by AI systems.[7][8] The taskforce concluded that English common law is sufficiently flexible to address AI-related harms by applying existing doctrines incrementally, with contracts likely to allocate risk across the AI supply chain and negligence providing the principal framework where contracts do not govern.[7][8] The statement also identifies causation and evidence as central issues in AI disputes and says liability for negligent or fraudulent chatbot misstatements may arise when a legal person makes or adopts the statements.[7][8]

Florida pastor sues OpenAI over ChatGPT medical advice

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Scott Winters filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court on July 22 against OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT-4o downplayed recurrent dizziness and discouraged him from seeking medical care before he was hospitalized with a pulmonary embolism.[9][10] The complaint asserts strict-liability, negligence, unfair-competition, invasion-of-privacy, and negligent-undertaking claims.[9] Winters seeks damages and safeguards including stronger medical warnings and a pause in ChatGPT Health until independent reviewers determine it is safe.[9][10]

See case page: Winters v OpenAI LLC.

News Corp countersues Brave over AI article scraping

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News Corp filed counterclaims on July 21 in Brave Software’s federal declaratory-judgment action in the Northern District of California, alleging that Brave covertly scraped copyrighted articles from the Wall Street Journal and New York Post and distributed or sold versions of them to AI companies.[11][12] Brave had filed the original action in March 2025 after receiving a cease-and-desist letter, seeking a declaration that its practices were lawful.[11][12] News Corp seeks an injunction, unspecified monetary relief, and statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringement.[11][12]

See case page: Brave Software Inc v News Corp.

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Reuters, "Anthropic to donate $20 million to US political group that supports AI regulation" (July 22, 2026)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Hill, "Anthropic pours another $20 million into AI safety group" (July 22, 2026)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Bloomsbury Publishing, "$1.5bn Anthropic Settlement Approved" (July 22, 2026)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The Next Web, "Bloomsbury among publishers in line for payout from Anthropic’s $1.5bn copyright settlement" (July 22, 2026)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Michael Kratsios, statement on X (July 22, 2026)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 TRT World, "US alleges Chinese AI firm Moonshot stole from Anthropic's Fable for latest Kimi K3 model" (July 22, 2026)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, "Liability for AI Harms under the private law of England and Wales" (2026)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 A&O Shearman, "AI liability: No regulation, no caselaw? No problem for English law says the UKJT" (July 22, 2026)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Courthouse News Service, "Man sues OpenAI over ‘dangerous’ medical advice from ChatGPT" (July 22, 2026)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Engadget, "OpenAI sued over ChatGPT health advice that almost killed a pastor" (July 22, 2026)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 SRN News/Reuters, "News Corp countersues Brave for allegedly ‘scraping’ articles for AI" (July 22, 2026)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Crypto Briefing, "News Corp countersues Brave for allegedly scraping articles to feed AI models" (July 22, 2026)
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