US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit

July 20 : A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday signed off on artificial intelligence company Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its AI chatbot Claude.U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin said that she would grant final approval of the settlement, the largest known settlement of a U.S. copyright case.The case is one of dozens brought by copyright owners including authors and news outlets against tech companies over the training of their large language models, and the first major U.S. case to settle. Now-retired Judge William Alsup initially greenlit the deal last September. The writers sued Anthropic in 2024, arguing that the company, which is ‌backed by ⁠Amazon and