News Cheske and Williams are based in Los Angeles and report to Concord Label Group Chief Executive Tom Becci News Lawyers for UMPG, Concord and ABKCO called Anthropic's motion to dismiss a "delaying" tactic News The partnership launches with the release of Caribou's latest album next month Analysis MBW founder Tim Ingham on the most talked-about music biz story of the past few weeks News The company has hired Grayson Flatness as an A&R consultant, and Kate London to head up legal and business affairs News Anthropic describes many of the claims against it as "implausible and supported by threadbare and conclusory allegations" News Altice says it plans to "vigorously defend" against a separate lawsuit brought by Warner Music and Sony Music News A long-running legal battle between Cox and record companies could end up being decided at the US's top court