A high-stakes AI ultimatum is unfolding inside the Pentagon as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth warns artificial intelligence firm Anthropic to lift military use restrictions on its Claude system by Friday or risk losing a $200 million contract.
Bestselling author Andrea Bartz emerged as a champion for writers this week, playing a central role in negotiating a $1.5 billion settlement from AI company Anthropic for the unauthorized use of copyrighted books in training its chatbots. Bartz, alongside fellow authors Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, served as named plaintiffs for the class action lawsuit that represented writers whose works were allegedly pirated without consent.
