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Anthropic Settles With Authors Over Pirated Material: What Does That Mean for Other AI Lawsuits?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 16:05:02

Anthropic agreed 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. On Tuesday, the parties in the lawsuit filed a motion indicating their agreement with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. We don't yet know the terms of the settlement, but we could know more as soon as next week. Justin Nelson, lawyer for the authors, told CNET via email that more information will be announced soon.

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The best VPN deals: Get up to 77 percent off NordVPN, ProtonVPN, Surfshark and others

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-21 05:00:56

A virtual private network (VPN) can save you a lot of money if you use it right. By changing your virtual location, you can use one streaming service to see shows that might be scattered between three or four in your home country. You can also trawl the world for discounts that only show up in a few select regions. And of course, you can't put a price on the joy of taking back your online business from intrusive ads and trackers. VPN providers are all competing to boost their subscriber counts,

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Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-21 19:43:12

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: Previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations

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Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your data for AI training

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-22 05:43:12

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations

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Malware devs abuse Anthropic’s Claude AI to build ransomware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-22 17:08:08

Anthropic's Claude Code large language model has been abused by threat actors who used it in data extortion campaigns and to develop ransomware packages. The company says that its tool has also been used in fraudulent North Korean IT worker schemes and to distribute lures for Contagious Interview campaigns, in Chinese APT campaigns, and by a Russian-speaking developer to create malware with advanced evasion capabilities. AI-created ransomware In another instance, tracked as ‘GTG-5004,’ a UK-b

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OpenAI–Anthropic cross-tests expose jailbreak and misuse risks — what enterprises must add to GPT-5 evaluations

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-10-22 20:50:54

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI and Anthropic may often pit their foundation models against each other, but the two companies came together to evaluate each other’s public models to test alignment. The companies said they believed that cross-evaluating accountability and safety would provide more transparency into what these powerful models could do, enabling ente

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Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-22 21:00:00

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. Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out. It’s also extending its data retention policy to five years — again, for users that don’t choose to

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Yorgos Lanthimos’ New Film Puts Emma Stone at the Center of an Alien Environmentalist Conspiracy

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-23 01:36:00

Director Yorgos Lanthimos has made a habit of collaborating with Emma Stone specifically on dark comedy dramas with light sci-fi themes, such as 2023’s Poor Things and 2024’s Kinds of Kindness. And the trailer for their latest team-up, Bugonia, contains much of the same eclecticism, setting up a paranoia thriller that’s equal parts about environmentalism and extraterrestrials. Bugonia, inspired by Korean director Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 sci-fi film, Save The Green Planet!, follows high-powered CE

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Fubo Is Launching a Skinny Bundle for Sports Fans. Here Are the Details

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-23 00:43:00

Cord-free streaming skinny bundles keep on coming and Fubo is the latest to join the party with the addition of its Fubo Sports package. On Thursday, the live TV streaming service announced that the new offering will launch Sept. 2, which is days before the 2025-26 NFL season kicks off. The package will also come with access to the new ESPN flagship streaming service at no extra charge. A Fubo Sports subscription, discounted to $46 for the first month only, will cost $56 per month after the int

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AI firm says its technology weaponised by hackers

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-23 07:40:27

AI firm says its technology weaponised by hackers 3 hours ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic says its technology has been "weaponised" by hackers to carry out sophisticated cyber attacks. Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, says its tools were used by hackers "to commit large-scale theft and extortion of personal data". The firm said its AI was used to help write code which carried out cyber-at

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Hackers used AI to 'to commit large-scale theft', says Anthropic

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-23 12:40:27

Hackers used AI to 'to commit large-scale theft', says Anthropic 1 hour ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic says its technology has been "weaponised" by hackers to carry out sophisticated cyber attacks. Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, says its tools were used by hackers "to commit large-scale theft and extortion of personal data". The firm said its AI was used to help write code which carrie

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The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music

theverge.com Barbara Krasnoff 2025-10-23 13:30:00

is a reviews editor who manages how-tos and various projects. She’s worked as an editor and writer (and occasional sci-fi author) for more years than she cares to admit to. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. When this article was originally written in February 2022, the big Spotify controversy was that artists were abandoning the audio service in protest of the company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan, and some subscribers were deciding t

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Anthropic's Claude Chrome browser extension rolls out - how to get early access

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-23 20:21:55

DrPixel/Moment/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: Claude is incorporating AI into a Chrome web browser extension. The closed beta allows users to chat with Claude in a side panel. Anthropic warned early users to use the extension carefully. Claude, Anthropic's AI model, is following Perplexity with its Comet web browser and Dia by incorporating AI into a web browser. Anthropic's first effort is a closed beta of a Chrome web browser ext

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What Is Synthetic Gasoline?

news.ycombinator.com Iere Team 2025-10-21 01:31:50

What is Synthetic Gasoline? Synthetic gasoline, also known as synthetic fuel or e-fuel, is a liquid fuel produced through chemical processes, rather than extracted from crude oil. It’s essentially a manufactured replica of gasoline, designed to power internal combustion engines while potentially offering a more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Understanding the Fundamentals of Synthetic Gasoline Synthetic gasoline represents a fascinating intersection of chemistry, engineering, and en

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Huge Number of Authors Stand to Get Paid After Anthropic Agrees to Settle Potentially $1 Trillion Lawsuit

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-23 22:15:08

As OpenAI's ChatGPT and its imitators exploded onto the world stage over the past few years, they kicked off a series of legal showdowns that are still working their way through the courts. The New York Times is suing OpenAI. Disney is suing Midjourney. And in a class action case representing potentially millions of writers, book authors are suing Anthropic. All these cases are orbiting around a central question: what do the creators of modern AI systems — which are trained by ingesting vast a

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Some teachers are using AI to grade their students, Anthropic finds - why that matters

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-23 23:00:18

Anthropic Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic published its Education Report, analyzing educators' Claude usage. Teachers are using Claude to help grade students, a controversial use case. AI companies are doubling down on tools for education. Much of the focus on AI in education is on how students will be affected by AI tools. Many are concerned that the temptation to cheat and AI's erosion of critical thinking skills will diminish the qua

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OpenAI and Anthropic conducted safety evaluations of each other's AI systems

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 05:36:37

Most of the time, AI companies are locked in a race to the top, treating each other as rivals and competitors. Today, OpenAI and Anthropic revealed that they agreed to evaluate the alignment of each other's publicly available systems and shared the results of their analyses. The full reports get pretty technical, but are worth a read for anyone who's following the nuts and bolts of AI development. A broad summary showed some flaws with each company's offerings, as well as revealing pointers for

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The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-10-24 00:36:43

As cybercrime surges around the world, new research increasingly shows that ransomware is evolving as a result of widely available generative AI tools. In some cases, attackers are using AI to draft more intimidating and coercive ransom notes and conduct more effective extortion attacks. But cybercriminals’ use of generative AI is rapidly becoming more sophisticated. Researchers from the generative AI company Anthropic today revealed that attackers are leaning on generative AI more heavily—somet

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OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-24 17:14:01

OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the world’s leading AI labs, briefly opened up their closely guarded AI models to allow for joint safety testing — a rare cross-lab collaboration at a time of fierce competition. The effort aimed to surface blind spots in each company’s internal evaluations and demonstrate how leading AI companies can work together on safety and alignment work in the future. In an interview with TechCrunch, OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba said this kind of collaboration is increa

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iPhone 17 set to break a record no flagship has touched in 15 years

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-24 19:24:29

When Apple releases the iPhone 17 in a few weeks, the timer will start for the new flagship model breaking a record set 15 years ago. The record will take more than a year to break, but based on current rumors, the iPhone 17 will be the first to steal the crown. iPhone 4 had an unusually long run That record belongs to the iPhone 4, which went on sale in June 2010 and remained Apple’s top iPhone until October 2011. Because Apple shifted its flagship launch cycle from summer to fall that year,

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Anthropic admits its AI is being used to conduct cybercrime

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 01:07:35

Anthropic’s agentic AI, Claude , has been "weaponized" in high-level cyberattacks, according to a new report published by the company. It claims to have successfully disrupted a cybercriminal whose "vibe hacking" extortion scheme targeted at least 17 organizations, including some related to healthcare, emergency services and government. Anthropic says the hacker attempted to extort some victims into paying six-figure ransoms to prevent their personal data from being made public, with an "unprec

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Claude for Chrome Extension Bakes AI Right Into the Browser

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 00:59:00

You'll soon be able to integrate Anthropic's chatbot into your online life even more easily. Claude for Chrome, a new extension that implants the AI model right into the web browser, will allow users to analyze and summarize webpages on screen, the company said in a press release on Tuesday. The extension, which is currently being piloted with 1,000 subscribers on the Max plan, which costs $200 per month, has both analysis and agentic capabilities. Not only will it summarize your emails and ana

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Anthropic agrees to settle copyright infringement class action suit - what it means

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-25 05:48:00

Anadolu / Contributor / Anadolu via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways Anthropic is settling a class action lawsuit with three authors. The authors claim Anthropic trained AI on their pirated work. The future of AI and fair usage is still unclear. AI startup Anthropic has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit against three authors for the tech company's misuse of their work to train its Claude chatbot. Also: Claude wins high praise fro

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Scientist Warns That New Synthetic Lifeform Could Spell Doom for Humankind

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-25 08:01:53

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments It's a technology that doesn't even exist yet, but its effects could be so drastically destructive that scientists in the field are calling for it to be banned now, before it's too late. We're talking, of course, about "mirror life" — synthetic organisms that quite literally turn natural biology on its head. "We should choose not to build mirror life and pass laws to ensure nobody can," John Glass, a synthetic biologist who helped create the first living

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Anthropic Warns of New 'Vibe Hacking' Attacks That Use Claude AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 09:19:08

Anthropic, the company behind the popular AI model Claude, said in a new Threat Intelligence report that it disrupted a "vibe hacking" extortion scheme. In the report, the company detailed how the attack was carried out, allowing hackers to scale up a mass attack against 17 targets, including entities in government, healthcare, emergency services and religious organizations. (You can read the full report in this PDF file.) Anthropic says that its Claude AI technology was used as both a "techni

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The AI Hype Index: AI-designed antibiotics show promise

technologyreview.com The Editors 2025-10-25 13:07:31

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. Using AI to improve our health and well-being is one of the areas scientists and researchers are most excited about. The last month has seen an interesting leap forward: The technology has been put to work designing new antibiotics to fight hard-to-treat conditions, and OpenAI and Anthropic have bo

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MasterClass memberships are 50 percent off for Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 13:00:35

If you want to brush up on some skills or learn new ones, MasterClass offers a good way to do just that. The streaming service has hundreds of classes taught by professionals and experts in their fields, and now you can get a subscription for 50 percent less than usual. All MasterClass membership tiers are on sale right now, so you can sign up for as low as $5 per month. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Ke

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‘Vibe-hacking’ is now a top AI threat

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-26 05:00:00

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. “Agentic AI systems are being weaponized.” That’s one of the first lines of Anthropic’s new Threat Intelligence report, out today, which details the wide range of cases in which Claude — and likely many other leading AI agents and chatbots

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Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome in limited beta, but prompt injection attacks remain a major concern

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-10-26 08:22:13

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic has begun testing a Chrome browser extension that allows its Claude AI assistant to take control of users’ web browsers, marking the company’s entry into an increasingly crowded and potentially risky arena where artificial intelligence systems can directly manipulate computer interfaces. The San Francisco-based AI company announc

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Anthropic Will Settle Lawsuit With Authors Over Pirated AI Training Materials

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-26 07:27:00

Anthropic agreed 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 AI models. The parties in the lawsuit filed a motion indicating the agreement with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. We don't yet know the terms of the settlement. Justin Nelson, lawyer for the authors, told CNET via email that more information will be announced soon. "This historic settlement will benefit all class member

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