When calling an API, the model may be replaced with another one, served in reduced precision (quantized), or silently updated. This creates legal risks: breach of warranty, difficulties in proof in court, and potential consumer deception. A solution could be cryptographically certified identity of the model in each response.

Anthropic, the AI developer, has been ordered to pay the largest copyright class action settlement in history. The amount and details of the settlement have not yet been disclosed.

Startup Poolside has unveiled Laguna S 2.1, an open-source model for coding with 118 billion parameters, claiming it is the most powerful open model from the West. It is comparable in performance to models several times larger but lags behind China's Kimi K3. The release comes amid discussions in the US about a possible ban on using Chinese open-source models.