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Anthropic Agrees to $1.5 Billion Settlement for Downloading Pirated Books to Train AI

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-13 09:10:00

Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by authors and publishers over its use of millions of copyrighted books to train the models for its AI chatbot Claude, according to a legal filing posted online. A federal judge found in June that Anthropic’s use of 7 million pirated books was protected under fair use but that holding the digital works in a “central library” violated copyright law. The judge ruled that executives at the company knew they were downloading pirat

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle authors' copyright lawsuit

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-13 13:01:05

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of authors, who claimed the artificial intelligence startup had illegally accessed their books. The company will pay roughly $3,000 per book plus interest, and agreed to destroy the datasets containing the allegedly pirated material, according to a filing on Friday. The lawsuit against Anthropic has been closely watched by AI startups and media companies that have been trying to determine what copyr

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Making a font of my handwriting

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 11:06:33

Recently I’ve been on a small campaign to try to make my personal website more… personal. Little ways to make it obvious it’s mine and personal, not just another piece of the boring corporate dystopia that is most of the web these days. I don’t quite want to fully regress to the Geocities era and fill the screen with animated under construction GIFs, but I do want to capture some of that vibe. I’d added some bits and pieces along those lines: floating images in articles now look like they’re st

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OpenAI Spends $10 Billion to Get Into the Chip Business

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-13 13:40:31

OpenAI would like to stop being so reliant on Nvidia to handle its processing needs. To address that, the artificial intelligence startup is reportedly teaming up with Broadcom to develop its own chips, set to be available starting next year, according to the Financial Times. The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI’s deal with the US-based semiconductor firm will see the two work together to create custom artificial intelligence chips, which will be used internally by OpenAI to train and ru

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Anthropic Will Pay $1.5 Billion to Authors in Landmark AI Piracy Lawsuit

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 12:53:00

Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of authors alleging that the AI company illegally pirated their copyrighted books to use in training its Claude AI models. The settlement was announced Aug. 29, as the parties in the lawsuit filed a motion with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals indicating they had reached an agreement. "This landmark settlement far surpasses any other known copyright recovery. It is the first of its kind in the AI era," Justin Nelson, lawy

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“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 13:26:03

Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models. In a press release provided to Ars, the authors confirmed that the settlement is "believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation." Covering 500,000 works that Anthropic pirated for AI training, if a court approves the settlement, each author will receive $3,000 per work that Anthr

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Lenovo’s ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept Laptop Has a Swiveling Screen

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-12 23:00:00

Lenovo isn’t shy about trying new things. Last year, the PC maker teased a concept laptop with a transparent screen. Earlier this year, the ThinkBook Flip concept employed a flexible OLED display that folded over the top of the laptop lid, ready to flip up whenever you needed the extra screen space. At CES 2025, we saw a ThinkBook with a rollable OLED screen that expanded upward automatically at the touch of a button—this one is a real product you can actually buy. Get ready for another whacky

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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-13 13:29:58

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In what’s potentially the first major payout to creatives whose work was used to train AI systems, Anthropic has reached an agreement to pay “at least” a staggering $1.5 billion, plus interest, to authors to settle its class-action lawsuit.

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Screw the money — Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-13 13:59:21

Around half a million writers will be eligible for a payday of at least $3,000, thanks to a historic $1.5 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit that a group of authors brought against Anthropic. This landmark settlement marks the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright law, but this isn’t a victory for authors — it’s yet another win for tech companies. Tech giants are racing to amass as much written material as possible to train their LLMs, which power groundbreaking AI chat pro

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Elon Musk's New Optimus Robot Demo Is So Painful It Will Make You Wince

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-12 19:34:37

Hot off of proudly announcing that he had replaced 4,000 people with AI at his company, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff posted a video of Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, calling it a "productivity game-changer." However, going by the 52-second clip, the carmaker has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots replace human jobs. Is this really what will make up a whopping 80 percent of Tesla's value, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised in a tweet earlier this week? In an

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Anthropic will pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle copyright lawsuit with authors

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 17:28:00

Anthropic will pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit lawsuit brought by authors and publishers. The settlement is the largest-ever payout for a copyright case in the United States. The AI company behind the Claude chatbot reached a settlement in the case last week, but terms of the agreement weren't disclosed at the time. Now, The New York Times reports that the 500,000 authors involved in the case will get $3,000 per work. The case has been closely watched as top

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Making a Font of My Handwriting

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 16:06:33

Recently I’ve been on a small campaign to try to make my personal website more… personal. Little ways to make it obvious it’s mine and personal, not just another piece of the boring corporate dystopia that is most of the web these days. I don’t quite want to fully regress to the Geocities era and fill the screen with animated under construction GIFs, but I do want to capture some of that vibe. I’d added some bits and pieces along those lines: floating images in articles now look like they’re st

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OpenAI Wants You to Get a Certificate in ChatGPT and Find Your Next Job

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 15:52:46

It's not quite getting a college degree in ChatGPT, but it's close. OpenAI said this week it is launching an AI-powered jobs platform and a new certification program offered through its OpenAI Academy. The OpenAI Jobs Platform, expected to launch in 2026, will use AI to connect candidates with employers. The company says the system is designed to better align worker skills with business needs, potentially putting it in direct competition with Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. Alongside the hiring plat

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EU Fines Google $3.45B for Giving Its Ad Tech Preferential Treatment

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 15:53:00

Google faces a $3.45 billion fine from the European Union for engaging in anticompetitive advertising technology practices, the European Commission said Friday. The fine stems from a complaint by the European Publishers Council alleging Google gave preference to its own online ad display services, hurting competitors and online publishers. The European Commission wants Google to stop these self-preferential practices and to cease its conflicts of interest. The Commission says it'll give Google,

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Lenovo demos laptop with a screen you can swivel into portrait mode

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 17:04:59

Lenovo has proven again that it isn’t content with PC designs. The latest era of laptops has been focused on ultralight computers that are easy to transport, but they're hard to differentiate. However, Lenovo’s continual experimentation has brought us some unique laptop releases and concepts in recent years, including a laptop with a screen that expands by rolling, a laptop with an outward folding screen, laptops with foldable screens, and laptops with dual 14-inch displays. The ThinkBook Verti

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Ignoring Trump threats, Europe hits Google with 2.95B euro fine for adtech monopoly

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 17:17:30

Google may have escaped the most serious consequences in its most recent antitrust fight with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), but the European Union is still gunning for the search giant. After a brief delay, the European Commission has announced a substantial 2.95 billion euro ($3.45 billion) fine relating to Google's anti-competitive advertising practices. This is not Google's first big fine in the EU, and it probably won't be the last, but it's the first time European leaders could face b

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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-10-13 17:14:28

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement, an estimated $3,000 per work. In a court motion on Friday, the plaintiffs emphasized that the terms of the settlement are “critical victories” and that going to trial would have been an “enormous” risk. This is the first class action settlement centered on AI and copyright in the United States, and the outcome may shape how regulators and creative industries

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Attorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-13 17:21:45

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for children and teens. The warning comes a week after Bonta and 44 other attorneys general sent a letter to 12 of the top AI companies, following reports of sexually inappropriate interactions between AI chatbots and children. “Since the issuance of that letter, we learned of the heartbreaking death by

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Worried AI will take your job? OpenAI's new platform could help get you one

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-13 21:12:26

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI introduces its OpenAI Jobs Platform. The experience is meant to connect users to job opportunities. This comes at a time when people fear AI will replace human jobs. While AI is typically implicated in replacing humans in the workforce, OpenAI's new undertaking is looking to wield those AI capabilities to get you a job. OpenAI Jobs Platform On Wednesday, the company unveiled

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Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 23:14:51

Apertus Table of Contents Model Summary Apertus is a 70B and 8B parameter language model designed to push the boundaries of fully-open multilingual and transparent models. The model supports over 1000 languages and long context, it uses only fully compliant and open training data, and achieves comparable performance to models trained behind closed doors. The model is a decoder-only transformer, pretrained on 15T tokens with a staged curriculum of web, code and math data. The model uses a new

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Score Insane Student Deals on Laptops and Gaming Consoles at AliExpress

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 20:15:00

With prices rising for just about everything these days, back-to-school shopping might feel a little more stressful than usual. Thankfully you can find incredible deals on all the tech you need at AliExpress, the global marketplace. AliExpress uses direct sourcing in order to offer eye-popping prices on laptops, headphones, gaming devices and everything you'll need to crush it at school (and after school) this year. And through August 28, you can unlock extra savings on their already low prices

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We Use Our Smartphones Like Laptops, So Why Do We Need Both? Here's What CNET's Survey Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 20:19:22

It's not uncommon to have a smartphone, a laptop and a tablet. I use all three, sometimes for many of the same tasks, like text messages, streaming and social media. The same is true for a lot of people. CNET's recent survey examines how most US adults use laptops, tablets and smartphones. Laptops are commonly used for work and educational tasks like creating and viewing documents (52%), streaming (35%) and creative work (33%). Besides texting, calls and social media, we use our smartphones fo

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Planet Money TikToks inspired one of the year’s most brilliant animated movies

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-10-13 19:30:00

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. In writer / director Julian Glander’s new animated sci-fi feature Boys Go to Jupiter, a young gig worker named Billy 5000 (Planet Money’s Jack Corbett) hoverboards his way through life in Florida with only one thing on his mind: he needs $5,000 and is willing to deliver as much food as it takes to make the cash. At first, the delivery

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How to watch Apple debut the iPhone 17 lineup at its 'Awe Dropping' event on September 9

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 01:31:10

September is usually iPhone season, and Apple appears poised to unveil its newest smartphones with its latest showcase, which is set for next week. The fall event has been dubbed "Awe dropping," so we're hoping for some surprising announcements that'll merit the tagline. The whole thing begins on September 9 at 1PM ET/10AM PT. If you want to tune in to hear what Tim Cook and crew have to say about the iPhone 17, you can stream the show on Apple's website or YouTube channel. We've also got the l

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Development speed is not a bottleneck

news.ycombinator.com Pawel Brodzinski 2025-10-13 21:13:41

"You are wrong, Pawel. You can vibe code a successful product without any technical skills. Here's one example." I liked the challenge, especially since it referenced a source. What I thought would be a short comment evolved into a series of articles. This post is the last one (or at least I believe so at the time of writing), and I will focus on the product management side. Well, just one aspect of it. The perception that the pace of shipping features (or building in general) is the bottlene

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Forget Open Earbuds, It’s All About Open Headphones Now

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-14 01:30:15

I’m a big fan of open audio, but not everyone loves the earbud form factor. Despite how comfortable some of the entrants in the open-ear audio space may be—Bose’s Ultra Open Earbuds and Nothing’s Ear Open are particularly comfy—sometimes you just want a pair of more traditional over-ear headphones, whether for ergonomics or more stability on your head. The problem is, if you want to combine the two (headphones and open-ear audio, that is), you’re not exactly flush with options. JLab, however, pl

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Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner

wired.com Brian Barrett 2025-10-13 22:16:59

The scene opens confusingly. The camera zooms too close to the president’s face; the table at which the tech executives are seated seems far too long. Mark Zuckerberg is there, and Bill Gates and Tim Cook and Satya Nadella and Sam Altman and on and on, a baker’s dozen or so of Silicon Valley’s most powerful people—cutthroat competitors all—united here to pledge allegiance to Donald Trump. The introduction from Trump is characteristically both overgilded and confusing: “It's an honor to be here

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Google hit with $3.45 billion antitrust EU fine amid U.S. trade tensions

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-14 05:20:10

Google was on Friday hit with a 2.95-billion-euro ($3.45 billion) antitrust fine from European Union regulators for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative advertising technology business. The European Commission, which is the executive body of the EU, accused Google of distorting competition in the so-called adtech market by unfairly favoring its own display advertising technology services to the detriment of rival adtech providers, advertisers and online publishers. It also ordered Googl

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The Nothing Ear Open headphones are below $100 for the first time

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-10-14 05:16:13

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you want to stay alert while running or biking, the Nothing Ear Open are a worthwhile alternative to classic in-ear cans. That’s because the company’s first pair of open-style earbuds — which are now on sale at Nothing’s online storefront or Amazon for an all-time low $99 ($50 off) with a Prime membership — let you listen to music and podcasts while keeping tabs on traffic, pedestrians, and other potentia

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Warner Bros. sues Midjourney for AI images of Superman, Batman, and other characters

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-14 05:56:38

In Brief Warner Bros. is suing AI startup Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that the company allows users to generate images and videos of characters like Superman, Batman, and Bugs Bunny without permission. As first reported by Reuters, Warner Bros says that Midjourney knowingly engaged in wrongful conduct, noting that the company previously restricted subscribers from generating content based on infringing images, but recently lifted those protections. “Midjourney has made a c

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