Judge approves Anthropic's $1.5-billion settlement with authors (Los Angeles Times)

Covered by: Los Angeles Times · July 2026

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The Los Angeles Times quoted James Rubinowitz on a federal judge's approval of Anthropic's $1.5-billion settlement with authors whose pirated books were used to train its Claude AI. The case is one of the largest AI copyright settlements to date and raises broader questions about how AI companies will be held accountable for their training data.

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