Anthropic settles with authors and publishers for $1.5 billion in landmark copyright case

1 · Siliconangle · July 21, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
Summary
Anthropic PBC has settled a landmark copyright case for $1.5 billion with authors and publishers over the use of their works to train the AI chatbot Claude, marking the largest copyright class action settlement in history. A federal judge has approved the settlement after a preliminary approval was issued last year.