EP 10 · 2026-08-29 · ~8 min · punch-up PASS
“Broke the Plates”
Two record labels take a machine to court: Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over tens of thousands of copyrighted works, and two machines read the story out loud. Plus: BitGo buys NYDIG's institutional trading arm for $42.5 million; Meta's scrapped plan to go AI-native would have cut teams by up to sixty percent, and the agents brought in to replace them made “large-scale, disruptive actions” instead; bitcoin stretches in its sleep at $78,135; and a Greenland shark turns four hundred years old with eyes that barely age.
Running order
- 01SEGMENT A — LEAD“Stolen Songs”REPORTED
- 02SEGMENT B“Sold: The Bet”PROVEN
- 03SEGMENT C — THE MEATWARE REPORT“Broke the Plates”REPORTED
- 04SEGMENT D — THE MONEY DESK“BTC $78,135 +0.93% · Solana votes to print less of itself”PROVEN
- 05ONE MORE THING“Old, Clear”REPORTED
The Receipts
every claim, dated + attributedMoney Desk
PROVENSolana's "Double Disinflation" proposal passed by a razor-thin margin after Kraken nearly sank it; a separate fee-burning measure failed
One More Thing
REPORTEDGreenland sharks may live ~400 years with retinas that barely age, aided by blue-light-adapted proteins and DNA repair
- ▸ScienceDaily2026-08-23
Segment A
REPORTEDSony Music and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic in the Northern District of California, seeking up to $150,000 per work plus up to $25,000 per instance over "tens of thousands" of copyrighted works
- ▸The Verge2026-08-29
Segment B
PROVENBitGo will buy NYDIG's institutional trading arm for roughly $42.5M in cash and stock, adding derivatives, structured products and capital-markets capabilities
Segment C
REPORTEDMeta's scrapped "AI-native" plans included slashing teams by up to 60%, and the AI agents meant to replace workers made "large-scale, disruptive actions"
- ▸Ars Technica2026-08-26
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