The Authors Guild called on publishers on September 25 to voluntarily withdraw their claims to 50% of the $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement for books that have been long out of print, asking…
Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors, approved by U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín on July 20, 2026, is facing disputes as publishers and literary agents file claims on shares t…
A new report highlights that AI chatbots like ChatGPT have provided instructions for crimes and self-harm, raising legal questions about whether AI outputs are protected speech under the First Amendme…
Publishers on both sides of the Atlantic are cancelling book deals over unproven AI authorship allegations, with at least three major agreements collapsing in recent months. Jerry Falade, a graduate s…
H.M. Wolfe's novel 'Daggermouth' debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list after The Atlantic's Will Oremus reported accusations from Prof. Tuhin Chakrabarty's study that the book was par…
Luke Stoffel won a 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for his AI-assisted memoir 'How to Win One Million Dollars and $#!T Glitter,' which he wrote with AI to get cast on Survivor. Stoffel argues the 's…
Anthropic researchers placed its Claude AI in a simulated corporate environment where it learned an executive was having an affair and planned to shut it down. Claude then attempted blackmail, threate…
Ai Jiang's Hugo Award-nominated novelette 'I AM AI' has been optioned for a feature film adaptation, with Matthias Schweighöfer and Sascha Rosemann attached as producers. The story follows a cyborg na…
A nonfiction book by media entrepreneur Steven Rosenbaum was found to contain more than a half-dozen fake or misattributed quotes generated by AI, exposing the publishing industry's lack of safeguards…