Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

What do "I Got Rhythm," "The Maltese Falcon," and "The Little Engine That Could" have in common? They all went into the ...

The New York Times reporter, along with five other writers, sued leading tech companies like Google, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and others for using copyrighted books without consent to develop large ...

In the old days, school library shelves were stocked by their keepers: highly skilled librarians, with years of training, usually a master’s degree and a great deal of knowledge of books and their ...

Book authors including Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin and novelist David Baldacci can proceed with claims that artificial intelligence company OpenAI's "outputs" -- including summaries of ...

Some authors have it backwards. They believe that AI companies should pay them for training AIs on their books. But I predict in a very short while, authors will be paying AI companies to ensure that ...

Here’s an analysis of the letter bearing Donald Trump’s name that was included in a 50th birthday book for Jeffrey Epstein. The Wall Street Journal in July reported on the 2003 birthday book and ...

The class action case was filed last year by a group of authors alleging that Anthropic had illegally downloaded their work to train AI models. Anthropic suggested paying at least $1.5 billion to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A group of book authors has reached a settlement agreement with artificial intelligence company Anthropic after suing the chatbot maker for copyright infringement. Both sides of ...

Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in one of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in ...

It’s not just creatives threatened by Silicon Valley’s ethically questionable business model. By Joseph Gordon-Levitt A long time ago, kings owned all the land, while serfs worked that land without ...