Morning,

Typically slow news cycle yesterday, Monday.

What we see is Anthropic weighing in on policy for AI (specifically, transparency and safety protocols) and calling again for unity on these sorts of policies.

I'm often impressed with Anthropic's outward-facing voice on this front -- despite the legal troubles they've seen this year, including the news yesterday about their upcoming book publisher settlement. Messy.

Oh and Vodafone ran ads with a fake AI UGC creator. Thoughts?

Have a great Tuesday,

Clay

https://blog.google/products/search/google-app-simplify-ios-development/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/anthropic-bill-gavin-newsom-scott-wiener-00550029?mc_cid=6f723d996c&mc_eid=382b075155

https://www.theverge.com/news/773567/vodafone-generative-ai-ad-presenter-tiktok

https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-authors-book-settlement-ai-copyright-claude-b282fe615338bf1f98ad97cb82e978a1

Thanks as always, human.

CG