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Judge: Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is being shoved "down the throat of authors"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 13:19:39

At a hearing Monday, US District Judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's rampant piracy of books to train AI. The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages after Alsup certified a class that included up to 7 million claimants whose works were illegally downloaded by the AI company. Instead, critics fear Anthropic will get off cheaply, striking a deal with authors suing that covers less than 500,0

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An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations

news.ycombinator.com Jamie Levy 2025-10-09 15:42:32

Figure 8: Threat actor starts to rely on automated workflows The threat actor also appeared to be interested in other AI tools to help with data generation and writing. We saw multiple Google searches for “free ai no signup” and for “csv generator ai.” We also saw the threat actor using Toolbaz AI, which is a writing assistant; the CSV spreadsheet generator feature of DocsBot AI, which is an AI chatbot tool; and the AI data generator feature of Explo AI, which is an embedded analytics tool.

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How An Attacker's Blunder Gave Us a Rare Look Inside Their Day-to-Day Operations

news.ycombinator.com Jamie Levy 2025-10-09 20:42:32

Figure 8: Threat actor starts to rely on automated workflows The threat actor also appeared to be interested in other AI tools to help with data generation and writing. We saw multiple Google searches for “free ai no signup” and for “csv generator ai.” We also saw the threat actor using Toolbaz AI, which is a writing assistant; the CSV spreadsheet generator feature of DocsBot AI, which is an AI chatbot tool; and the AI data generator feature of Explo AI, which is an embedded analytics tool.

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Judge in Anthropic AI Piracy Suit Worried Authors May 'Get the Shaft' in $1.5B Settlement

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 21:07:16

A federal judge on Monday ordered the court to slow-roll a proposed $1.5 billion settlement to authors whose copyrighted works Anthropic pirated to train its Claude AI models. Judge William Alsup, of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, said the deal is "nowhere close to complete," and he will hold off on approving it until more questions are answered. Alsup's concerns seem to be around making sure authors have enough notice to join the suit, according to Bloomberg. In

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Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 21:21:02

At a hearing Monday, US district judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's rampant piracy of books to train AI. The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages after Alsup certified a class that included up to 7 million claimants whose works were illegally downloaded by the AI company. Instead, critics fear Anthropic will get off cheaply, striking a deal with authors suing that covers less than 500,0

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Claude can create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets for you now in chat

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-10 05:30:17

Anthropic ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic's Claude can now create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets. File creation is available to Max, Team, and Enterprise users. Pro users will get access in the upcoming weeks. AI chatbots such as Anthropic's Claude have always been helpful co-creators for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or projects you are working on. However, this typically involved you having to copy and paste the text over -- until now. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude wil

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Alterego: Thought to Text

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 09:17:50

Alterego is a breakthrough technology that connects you with AI through a minimal, non-invasive device. Using Silent Sense, it understands what you intend to say without speaking, allowing you to extend your thinking without the need to type, tap, or talk out loud.

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Salesloft: March GitHub repo breach led to Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-12 09:43:30

Salesloft says attackers first breached its GitHub account in March, leading to the theft of Drift OAuth tokens later used in widespread Salesforce data theft attacks in August. Salesloft is a widely used sales engagement platform that helps companies manage outreach and customer communications. Its Drift platform is a conversational marketing tool that integrates chatbots and automation into sales pipelines, including integrations with platforms like Salesforce. The two have been at the cente

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Matmul on Blackwell: Part 2 – Using Hardware Features to Optimize Matmul

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 19:16:18

In the first blog post in this series we explained Nvidia's Blackwell GPU architecture and concluded with a 4 line kernel that was a bit worse than cuBLAS. In fact, the performance was a lot worse coming in at 0.3% of cuBLAS and leaving 1758 TFLops on the table. In this post we are going to continue our journey and improve our performance by more than 50x our initial kernel benchmark. Along the way we are going to explain more GPU programming concepts and leverage novel Blackwell features. Note

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

news.ycombinator.com Cade Metz 2025-10-12 21:52:45

In 2024, three book authors, Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, sued Anthropic, accusing the start-up of illegally using their work to train its A.I. models. The suit is among the four dozen cases that copyright holders have brought against A.I. companies. Some have been dismissed by the courts. Companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft need enormous amounts of digital data, some of which is copyrighted, to build its A.I. models. The companies have long claimed t

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Attention Writers: Anthropic Might Owe You $3000 (or More!) If It Was Trained Using Your Work

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 04:10:39

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 with actually writing, or the thought of actually writing, or the thought of what you aren't right now actually writing. And the economics are more harrowing than ever, as the once halfway-decent living one could make from publishing a book is now going the way of the dinosaur as people read less

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Anti-AI Activist on Day Three of Hunger Strike Outside Anthropic's Headquarters

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 06:38:48

AI fever might have an iron grip on Fortune 500 CEOs, Wall Street traders, and government officials, but there are still some out their immune to the tech industry's charms. For evidence, look no further than activist and organizer Guido Reichstadter, who's currently running on day three of a hunger strike on the front steps of the headquarters of the AI giant Anthropic. In a statement posted to LessWrong — a forum kickstarted in 2009 by AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky — Reichstadter explained tha

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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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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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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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Meta is fixing threads on Threads

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 17:01:23

Meta is finally fixing how threads work on its social network Threads. Prior to this, there was no real way to know how long a thread was or even if a post was part of a longer discussion. The company has made "several changes that display threaded posts more clearly." These include a new "view more" label that indicates a post is part of a longer thread. This is an easy way to instantly know if someone's thoughts continue past an initial post. Meta There's also a new design element that auto

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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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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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Using Your Phone on Toilet May Give You Hemorrhoids: Study

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-10-14 11:17:16

Of all the crappy ways smartphones have affected our health, this one is a real kick in the pants. A first-of-its-kind study links excessive scrolling on the phone while sitting on the toilet with hemorrhoids. (Insert poo emojis.) But, seriously. Sitting on an open bowl offers no support for the pelvic floor. That puts pressure on veins in the rectum, making them swollen and inflamed. “The longer you sit on the toilet, the worse it is for you,” said Dr. Trisha Pasricha, director of the Beth

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Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 23:55:52

Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector Fil-C uses a parallel concurrent on-the-fly grey-stack Dijkstra accurate non-moving garbage collector called FUGC (Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector). You can find the source code for the collector itself in fugc.c, though be warned, that code cannot possibly work without lots of support logic in the rest of the runtime and in the compiler. Let's break down FUGC's features: Parallel: marking and sweeping happen in multiple threads, in parallel. The more

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Keep Waking Up to Pee? Here Are 5 Ways to Prevent Middle-of-the-Night Bathroom Trips

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-15 03:30:03

There's nothing worse than waking up in the middle of the night and realizing that you have to pee. Perhaps you try to close your eyes again and ignore the sensation, but it persists. What's even more annoying is having this happen multiple times a night, affecting your sleep quality and how tired you feel the next day. Fortunately, there are things you can do to prevent these unwanted bathroom trips. But if these strategies don't work and you continue to wake up multiple times to pee, we also

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Threads is testing long-form posts with support for formatted text [U: Launched]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-15 17:44:32

Update, Sep 4: The feature is now live. Find the new details below. While Threads already allows up to 500 characters per post (which is more than enough for casual users used to the microblogging format), it is now testing support for long-form posts through “text attachments”. Here’s how it works. Meta has confirmed the test, but has no ETA for the feature As spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu (via TechCrunch), Threads is testing a new “text attachment” feature on iOS, which could repla

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Threads posts now support 'text attachments' up to 10,000 characters

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-16 09:00:00

That was fast. A week after a new feature for sharing long-form text was spotted in the Threads app, Meta is making the experiment official. Threads users will now be able to append text snippets of up to 10,000 characters to their posts in a feature Meta says is meant to support journalists and creators on the platform. As Engadget detailed last week, the feature is fairly basic for now. Selecting "text attachment" from the post composer opens up a simple text editor that has some formatting o

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You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-16 09:00:00

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta is adding a new feature to let you add a bunch of extra text to Threads posts — no screenshots of text blocks required. Starting today, Meta is rolling out a tool that lets you attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, giving you a way to build upon the 500-characte

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Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-16 09:00:00

After recently being spotted testing a way to share longer text, Threads, Meta’s X competitor, is now officially rolling out the feature that allows users to attach up to 10,000 characters of text to their post. The addition has been designed with the needs of creators in mind, as it supports linking out to content outside of Threads, like newsletters, blogs, podcasts, and more. Before this update, Threads supported 500 characters — which is already far more than the 280 characters offered to X

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Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo

news.ycombinator.com Rachel 2025-10-16 13:32:24

Tempo was started by Stripe and Paradigm, with design input from Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Lead Bank, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more. If you’re a company with large, real-world economic flows and would like to help shape the future of Tempo, get in touch.

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How Anthropic's enterprise dominance fueled its monster $183B valuation

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-16 17:13:14

PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic is valued at $183 billion after a new funding round. The company currently serves over 300,000 enterprise customers. A marketing emphasis on safety could be a major driving factor. Anthropic is soaring, and the popularity of its tools among enterprise clients is providing much of the lift. The AI start-up announced on Tuesday that its latest funding round raised $13 bill

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