Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors NYT | Top Stories By: Cade Metz 6 September 2025 at 03:31 The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works. © Andres Kudacki for The New York TimesAnthropic’s Claude chatbot has become one of the world’s most popular A.I. systems.