AI News, 2 November 2026

Monday 2 November

Alphabet shareholder sues Sundar Pichai and 12 others over training Google’s AI, including Lyria, on copyrighted works

AI-generated summary Alphabet shareholder Phil Rosen has made available a derivative lawsuit against Sundar Pichai and 12 other executives and directors over how Google trained its AI models, including Lyria. The complaint alleges that Alphabet leaders implemented an unlawful business strategy to build AI services on copyrighted works without obtaining proper licenses or permissions.

Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom

AI-generated summary Anthropic released version 2.1.314 of the Claude Code binary, which includes a new prompt designed to prevent the AI from re-creating specific existing video games. Anthropic software engineer Addy Osmani states the change helps steer users away from using Claude to infringe intellectual property.

Also covered by The Decoder TechSpot tomshardware.com

Set up and manage the new unified Claude experience for your Enterprise organization | Claude Help Center

AI-generated summary Anthropic announced the upcoming release of a new unified Claude experience for Enterprise organizations that combines chat and Cowork capabilities across web, desktop, and mobile. Anthropic states that the feature will turn on by default on November 16, 2026, and allows tasks to run in an isolated cloud sandbox managed by Anthropic.

Envision claims to be running the world's first 800VDC data center in Ulanqab, China

AI-generated summary Green technology firm Envision announced that its Galaxy AI data center in Ulanqab, China, opened in August and has an 800VDC power system running live compute workloads. Envision states that the 800VDC power system combines solid-state transformers, battery energy storage, and direct-current voltage adjustment equipment for computing hardware.

Also covered by Interesting Engineering tomshardware.com