Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in history. The move will allow Anthropic to avoid what could have been a financially devastating outcome in court. The settlement agreement is expected to be finalized on September …
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Authors are celebrating a “historic” settlement expected to be reached soon in a class-action lawsuit over Anthropic’s AI training data. On Tuesday, US District Judge William Alsup confirmed that Anthropic and the authors “believe they have a settlement in principle” and will file a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement by September 5. The settlement announcement comes after Alsup …
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A California federal judge ruled Thursday that three authors suing Anthropic over copyright infringement can bring a class action lawsuit representing all U.S. writers whose work was allegedly downloaded from libraries of pirated works. The filing alleges that Anthropic, the Amazon-backed OpenAI competitor behind the chatbot Claude, “violated the Copyright Act by doing Napster-style downloading of millions of works.” It …
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To help demonstrate what NotebookLM can do, Google is introducing “featured notebooks” on various topics. Google partnered with “respected authors, researchers, publications and nonprofits” to create notebooks on “everything from in-depth scientific explorations to practical travel guides to advice from experts.” Of note are partnerships with The Economist and The Atlantic. They will appear as a new “Featured notebooks” tab …
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