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Anthropic will face a class-action lawsuit from US authors

Anthropic will face a class-action lawsuit from US authors

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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NotebookLM adding ‘featured notebooks’ from publications, authors

NotebookLM adding ‘featured notebooks’ from publications, authors

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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