📊 BENCHMARKS & EVALS
- Ant Group launches finance-tuned Ling model, plans open-source release
Ant Group launched Ling-3.0-flash-Fin, a finance-tuned model with 124B total parameters.- Designed for finance professionals and developers working with reports, workbooks, research, and banking tasks.
- Ling-3.0-flash-Fin retains Ling-3.0-flash’s 124B total parameters and 5.1B active parameters.
- The model supports information retrieval, investment analysis, valuation modeling, and multi-document research.
- Ant Group is offering one month of free API access through OpenRouter and plans to release the weights next week.
Sources 📎 Coverage: technode.com · 👁 via r/LocalLLaMA
🏛️ POLICY & REGULATION
- Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over alleged music piracy
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic over alleged copyright infringement.- Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and affiliated publishers sued Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann.
- The complaint alleges Anthropic torrented, scraped and downloaded copyrighted lyrics and compositions to train Claude on tens of thousands of works.
- The publishers seek up to $150,000 per infringed work and up to $25,000 for each instance of removed copyright information.
- The lawsuit covers alleged piracy, copyright-data removal and Claude outputs that reproduce or imitate protected lyrics.
- The case broadens music publishers’ claims beyond model training to data acquisition, attribution and generated outputs.
Sources 📎 Coverage: techcrunch.com · 👁 via TechCrunch AI, The Verge AI