Industry
Judge Slashes Lawyer Fees to $101M in $1.5B Author-AI Copyright Deal
Ars Technica AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
The gavel finally came down on the publishing industry's biggest AI showdown. A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion s...
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Startups
Judge signs off on $1.5B Anthropic deal, but fair use fight rages on
TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
A federal judge gave final approval Monday to a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a class of authors and pu...
Product
OpenAI cuts deal with Future to feed 200+ brands into ChatGPT
OpenAI Blog · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI just locked down a deal that will pipe content from more than 200 specialist media brands directly into ChatGPT,...
Startups
Publishers sue Google, cite internal memo warning of $100B in AI fines
TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
A heavyweight coalition of publishers and authors—including Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and novelist Scott Turow—has d...
Industry
Google I/O's AI Search Blitz: A Tar Pit Strategy That Could Finally Break User Trust
The Register AI · May 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Google's annual I/O conference made one thing blisteringly clear: the company is no longer a search engine that points...