Anthropic's $1.5B Bartz v. Anthropic settlement made headlines as the largest copyright payout ever, but it was built around US copyright law. Step outside US borders and the picture changes: a US Copyright Office registration rule excludes most non-English and non-US authors, Canada gets no separate claims process, Japanese distributor Nippan is named as an Anthropic supplier, and Germany's GEMA is already beating OpenAI and Suno in court without a US-style class action.

Five AI stories crossed my desk this week — none of them big news alone, but together they trace a widening gap between what AI can do and what the law requires. Here's what it means for your compliance and IP strategy.

Four major AI labs released new models in a single week. Here's what's driving the pace, why it's exhausting builders, and how to actually evaluate AI tools without chasing every headline.

California just signed the country's first AI audit law, and China just released a five-year plan for AI copyright rules, right after its top court dodged the question entirely. Neither country has the hard answers yet, but both are building the infrastructure anyway. Here's what small businesses need to know, plus eight steps to get ahead of it.

Meta just agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion to resolve child-safety litigation, mid-trial. The same week, New Zealand advanced a bill to ban under-16s from social media, with fines up to 10% of global revenue. Courts and legislatures are converging on the same standard: build in protections for minors proportionate to the risk, or price in the cost later.