US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 bn copyright deal with authors
A US judge has preliminarily approved a $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright lawsuit filed by a group of authors against AI company Anthropic. Authors had accused Anthropic of unlawfully using nearly half a million pirated books to teach its AI assistant Claude. Under the settlement, authors and publishers will receive about $3,000 for each book covered by the agreement.