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AI guzzled millions of books without permission. Authors are fighting back.  The Washington Post US authors suing Anthropic can band together in copyright class action, judge rules  Reuters Judges Don’t Know What AI’s Book Piracy Means  The Atlantic AI companies accused of ‘largest domestic piracy of IP in our nation’s history’ at congressional hearing led by MAGA Republican  Music Business Worldwide (Podcast) The Briefing: …

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 …

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 …