A federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors whose books were used to train its AI chatbot Claude, with individual authors receiving roughly $3,000 per work after fees.
Companies and political figures have all broached the idea of the public having an ownership stake in AI companies through a sovereign wealth fund — both to share the benefits of the technology and counter growing angst.
Three companies with trillion-dollar-plus valuations are expected to go public in quick succession. New rules mean major stock indexes are fast-tracking their inclusion, triggering mandatory buying from the index funds that dominate American retirement accounts.
The company, known for taking a stricter safety stance as it developed its artificial intelligence tools, said it failed to convince competitors to do the same.
The new plug-ins automate functions in sales, legal, and financial analytics — and directly compete with enterprise software from firms like Salesforce and Intuit.
