# AI News Digest - 2026-08-30

1. Sony Music and Warner Chappell filed suit against Anthropic in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging unauthorized use of "tens of thousands" copyrighted works and seeking statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work plus additional penalties that could total billions of dollars.

2. Google DeepMind expanded its Co-Scientist system from a hypothesis generator into an integrated research platform that planned experiments, operated laboratory equipment, and produced experimentally validated results across three scientific disciplines.

3. LAION released the Big Video Dataset (BVD), an open collection of 80 million videos (about 10 million hours) and 55 million auto-described clips, and reported that models trained on BVD outperformed the prior benchmark InternVid by up to 2.1 percentage points.

4. Google Research introduced WikiSkill, a framework that provided AI agents with a persistent, wiki-like memory of past failures and successes so agents could document and reuse knowledge across runs, enabling smaller models with WikiSkill to match the performance of larger models without it.

5. China's entertainment industry released 128,000 short dramas in Q1 2026, of which 95 percent were reported to be AI-generated, and sources indicated rising AI-related labor disputes as some actors were reportedly required to hand over voice and likeness rights before being displaced.

# References

1. [https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986438/sony-music-warner-chappell-anthropic-lawsuit-copyright](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986438/sony-music-warner-chappell-anthropic-lawsuit-copyright)

[Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986438/sony-music-warner-chappell-anthropic-lawsuit-copyright)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-ai-co-scientist-now-plans-experiments-runs-lab-equipment-and-writes-scientific-papers/](https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-ai-co-scientist-now-plans-experiments-runs-lab-equipment-and-writes-scientific-papers/)

[Google Deepmind's AI Co-Scientist now plans experiments, runs lab equipment, and writes scientific papers](https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-ai-co-scientist-now-plans-experiments-runs-lab-equipment-and-writes-scientific-papers/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai-research/](https://the-decoder.com/laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai-research/)

[LAION drops massive open video dataset with 10 million hours of footage for AI research](https://the-decoder.com/laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai-research/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/google-gives-ai-agents-their-own-wiki-so-they-can-learn-from-mistakes-and-successes/](https://the-decoder.com/google-gives-ai-agents-their-own-wiki-so-they-can-learn-from-mistakes-and-successes/)

[Google's WikiSkill gives AI agents a persistent memory of past mistakes to sharpen future performance](https://the-decoder.com/google-gives-ai-agents-their-own-wiki-so-they-can-learn-from-mistakes-and-successes/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/ai-generated-videos-are-already-displacing-actors-and-livestreamers-across-chinas-entertainment-industry/](https://the-decoder.com/ai-generated-videos-are-already-displacing-actors-and-livestreamers-across-chinas-entertainment-industry/)

[AI-generated videos are already displacing actors and livestreamers across China's entertainment industry](https://the-decoder.com/ai-generated-videos-are-already-displacing-actors-and-livestreamers-across-chinas-entertainment-industry/)

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