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Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books used to train AI chatbots

The company has agreed to pay authors or publishers about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement
Anthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI leaders in 2021, earlier this week put its value at $183 billion after raising another $13 billion in investments

By AP · 07 September 2025