Claude maker Anthropic's use of copyright-protected books in its AI training process was "exceedingly transformative" and fair use, US senior district judge William Alsup ruled on Monday. It's the ...

Robin Hood, the legendary antihero, is beloved for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. But what if he stole from the rich and then gave to his own bank account, with the explicit intent of ...

Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit from a group of book authors and publishers, according to a filing, marking the largest U.S. copyright settlement of ...

Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of fiction and nonfiction authors, as announced in a filing on Tuesday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Anthropic had won a partial ...

On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company ...

A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard that the AI company Anthropic agreed to an at least $1.5 billion settlement for authors ...

Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry’s rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica ...

Writing is a wonderful profession… in writers’ dreams! In reality, it’s a grind that’s comically unprofitable for the vast majority, to say nothing of the tortured ennui that comes with having to deal ...

The newly revised document offers a roadmap for what Anthropic says is a safer and more helpful chatbot experience.

Anthropic is the company behind AI chatbot Claude. Claude maker Anthropic's use of copyright-protected books in its AI training process was "exceedingly transformative" and fair use, US senior ...

The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco ...