# AI News Digest - 2026-08-31

1. Anthropic faced a lawsuit from Sony Music, Warner Music, and other publishers alleging unauthorized use of tens of thousands of copyrighted musical compositions to train Claude, and it implemented changes to Claude Code weekly usage limits that resulted in an effective 17 percent cut after a temporary boost expired.

2. Texas Governor Greg Abbott blocked state funding for additional Flock AI surveillance cameras, freezing expenditures after reporting showed the state had spent over $30 million and amid concerns about privacy and misuse.

3. Researchers reported that AI coding assistants such as Claude Code and Codex lacked a sense of time, systematically overestimated task durations (with Codex erring by up to tenfold) and overestimated the quality of their own work by about 20 percentage points, creating oversight challenges for long autonomous tasks.

4. The Decoder reported that positive employee comments about AI on Glassdoor fell from 81 percent in 2019 to 43 percent, with executives generally positive while some workers, including insurance claims staff, reported largely negative experiences citing forced adoption, surveillance, and job‑loss fears.

5. Bocconi University researchers found that GPT-4o boosted student grades on a marketing assignment by nearly a full point on a five‑point scale in an experiment involving 1,053 students, though the study did not assess whether students actually learned the material.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/sony-and-warner-sue-anthropic-over-one-of-the-largest-and-most-blatant-ongoing-thefts-of-intellectual-property-in-history/](https://the-decoder.com/sony-and-warner-sue-anthropic-over-one-of-the-largest-and-most-blatant-ongoing-thefts-of-intellectual-property-in-history/)

[Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history"](https://the-decoder.com/sony-and-warner-sue-anthropic-over-one-of-the-largest-and-most-blatant-ongoing-thefts-of-intellectual-property-in-history/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-claude-code-limit-change-is-a-raise-on-paper-but-a-cut-in-practice/](https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-claude-code-limit-change-is-a-raise-on-paper-but-a-cut-in-practice/)

[Anthropic's Claude Code limit change is a raise on paper but a cut in practice](https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-claude-code-limit-change-is-a-raise-on-paper-but-a-cut-in-practice/)

1. [https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986541/texas-governor-abbott-flock-cameras](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986541/texas-governor-abbott-flock-cameras)

[Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986541/texas-governor-abbott-flock-cameras)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-have-no-sense-of-time-and-are-not-aware-of-it/](https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-have-no-sense-of-time-and-are-not-aware-of-it/)

[AI agents have no sense of time and are not aware of it](https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-have-no-sense-of-time-and-are-not-aware-of-it/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/ai-sentiment-is-turning-sour-as-employee-reviews-reveal-growing-frustration-across-the-workforce/](https://the-decoder.com/ai-sentiment-is-turning-sour-as-employee-reviews-reveal-growing-frustration-across-the-workforce/)

[AI sentiment is turning sour as employee reviews reveal growing frustration across the workforce](https://the-decoder.com/ai-sentiment-is-turning-sour-as-employee-reviews-reveal-growing-frustration-across-the-workforce/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/the-skills-that-earn-top-grades-are-the-ones-ai-can-fake-best/](https://the-decoder.com/the-skills-that-earn-top-grades-are-the-ones-ai-can-fake-best/)

[The skills that earn top grades are the ones AI can fake best](https://the-decoder.com/the-skills-that-earn-top-grades-are-the-ones-ai-can-fake-best/)

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