📩 Silicourt Valley – Issue #18

The $1.5B Wake-Up Call: What Anthropic's Settlement Really Means

Last week: client AI conversations. This week: why one proposed settlement could change everything.

Anthropic wants to pay $1.5 billion to make a lawsuit disappear. The case? Claude was allegedly trained on 500,000 pirated books. Judge William Alsup hasn't approved the deal - he wants more details first. But the damage is done. Every AI company just got a preview of their potential liability.