This Tuesday morning, AI giant Anthropic has received final federal court approval for a massive $1.5 billion settlement in a copyright infringement lawsuit. Both TechCrunch and Crypto Briefing confirm this historic payout resolves claims that Anthropic used authors' books without permission to train its Claude AI chatbot.

The settlement, the largest of its kind in U.S. copyright history, will deliver $3,000 per work across an estimated 500,000 copyrighted works, as reported by The Hindu and Th