Senior Politics Reporter

Josh Koehn

The legislation is the first in the nation to put regulatory guardrails on the rapidly growing industry.

The makers of Claude have agreed to a short-term deal in SoMa, where they already occupy a full building in an area being rebranded as “AI Alley.” 

Guido Reichstadter has been protesting outside Anthropic’s SF Headquarters for two weeks.

If approved, it will be the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases. 

A fraught political fight about the legislation has spilled into public view, with opposition from key figures like Nancy Pelosi.