Top News | Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit from half a million authors over pirated books used in training its AI, a record copyright payout that’s likely to push the rest of the industry toward upfront licensing deals. The New York Times has more here. | The EU just slapped Google with a $3.5 billion fine for steering ad sales to its own exchange and hinted it may force a breakup. The Wall Street Journal has more here. | News of the EU fine led President Trump to threaten a trade probe to “nullify” what he called discriminatory penalties on U.S. tech giants, blasting Europe for squeezing billions from Google and Apple just a day after he hosted their CEOs at a White House dinner. (See People section below.) CNBC has more here. | | | | |
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