Anthropic has to pay authors.
The Verge
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement requiring Anthropic to pay authors whose works trained its Claude AI.Summary
In July 2026, a U.S. federal judge gave final approval to a $1.5 billion class‑action settlement in which Anthropic must compensate authors whose copyrighted texts were used to train its Claude AI chatbot. The lawsuit, filed in 2024, alleged that the company’s training data included unlicensed works. Under the agreement, authors will be paid “as promptly as possible” after attorneys receive their $101 million fee. The settlement is described as the largest copyright recovery in history.
(Source：The Verge)