Judge approves Anthropics $1.5 billion settlement with authors
THE SO WHAT
A court-blessed $1.5B settlement prices past training-data risk at real money, not legal noise. Any team training on unvetted corpora should assume retroactive licensing or settlements become a line item in the model P&L and adjust data strategy accordingly.
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