2025-09-07
The terms of Anthropic's settlement w/book authors just came out. 💰$1.5B to authors in libgen (Books3 corpus)! Interestingly, this is ~$3k per book, close to the terms that HarperCollins allegedly gave to authors for their books ($2.5k). Consensus price forming? [image]
Bloomberg
Filing: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books
Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading …
2025-09-06
The terms of Anthropic's settlement w/book authors just came out. 💰$1.5B to authors in libgen (Books3 corpus)! Interestingly, this is ~$3k per book, close to the terms that HarperCollins allegedly gave to authors for their books ($2.5k). Consensus price forming? [image]
Bloomberg
Filing: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books
Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading …
2024-09-01
Yet another hire+license deal in AI, avoiding real acquisition. Seems like Big Tech's new playbook to sidestep @FTC merger scrutiny. I'd very much like to know the terms of these deals. Are remaining workers/investors left high and dry? https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ...
GeekWire
Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot maker Covariant and ~25% of its staff, and signs a non-exclusive license to Covariant's robotic foundation models
Amazon is hiring three of the founders from Covariant, a Bay Area startup that develops AI for advanced warehouse robotics systems.
2024-05-12
The UK AI Safety Institute releases an open source evaluation tool! https://www.gov.uk/...
TechCrunch
The UK government's new AI safety body releases Inspect, an evaluation tool for AI model capabilities, including models' core knowledge and ability to reason
The U.K. Safety Institute, the U.K.'s recently established AI safety body, has released a toolset designed to “strengthen AI safety” …