Judge endorses Anthropic's $1.5 bn copyright settlement | News

SAN FRANCISCO, United States, Sept 25, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A US judge on Thursday endorsed Anthropic's deal to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit over amassing a library of pirated books to train its artificial intelligence. "We are pleased the court has granted preliminary approval of the settlement," Anthropic deputy general counsel Aparna Sridhar said in response to an AFP query. "The decision will allow us to focus on developing safe AI systems." The settlement stems from a class action lawsuit filed by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, who accused Anthropic of illegally copying their books to train Claude, the company's AI chatbot that rivals ChatGPT. In a partial victory for Anthropic, US...