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How a $1.5 Billion Settlement Could Alter the Course of AI
20 minutes Posted Sep 10, 2025 at 8:25 pm.
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit over the company's use of pirated books to train large-language models. WSJ’s Melissa Korn unpacks the proposed settlement and explores what the precedent could mean for the AI industry. Ryan Knutson hosts. 


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