Anthropic 请求法院限制 Reddit 的 AI 团队接触 Claude 的商业秘密

Finding

Anthropic is asking a San Francisco judge to restrict which Reddit lawyers and experts can see its most sensitive model architecture, training data, and source code, citing Reddit's own plans to build foundational LLMs.

How we verified

Methods: documents, public records.

Anthropic's Aug. 27 opposition says seven protective-order and ESI terms remain disputed. It seeks restrictions on Reddit in-house counsel involved in AI strategy, a carveout for experts developing competing LLMs or tools that compromise LLMs, source-code-level protection for certain dataset identifiers, secure inspection of training data, printing limits, narrower TAR disclosure rules, and narrower preservation duties for legacy data. Reddit's Aug. 14 declaration says production was deferred until the orders are entered and that the parties reached impasse on Aug. 6.

Reviewed the Aug. 27, 2026 Anthropic opposition, Reddit's Aug. 14 declaration and exhibits, the parties' proposed protective-order and ESI language, meet-and-confer correspondence, Reddit's SEC filing, and Reddit's 2026 Staff Research Engineer job posting. Compared the competing provisions and reconstructed the negotiation timeline. Verified the case number, Sept. 10 hearing date, time, judge, and department from the filed documents. Party arguments are attributed as arguments, not treated as court findings.

Tested versions:

• N/A - court filings and public records

Reproduction

Reproduction does not apply to this reporting (document-driven).

Open the San Francisco Superior Court case portal for CGC-25-625892 and locate Anthropic's opposition, transaction ID 80484889. Compare the Aug. 27 opposition with Reddit's Aug. 14 declaration and proposed protective-order and ESI terms. Focus on PO paragraph 17(c), PO paragraph 17(d), PO paragraph 18(a), PO paragraph 23, ESI Protocol paragraph 12, ESI Protocol paragraph 24, and Appendix I paragraph (d).

Company response

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