Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.

Anthropic trained its AI assistant Claude using copyrighted texts, according to a lawsuit from several affected authors. After finding out the San Francisco startup might have broken the law by pirating a portion of the titles,

A group of book authors has reached a settlement with AI company Anthropic after suing for copyright infringement.