On September 5, 2025, writers Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Robertson initiated legal proceedings against Apple. They alleged that the tech giant had employed copyrighted books, without obtaining consent, providing proper attribution, or offering compensation, to train its AI system, OpenELM. The plaintiffs contended that their literary creations were part of a dataset obtained through piracy. On that very same day, AI startup Anthropic made a public announcement. It revealed that it had reached a settlement, agreeing to pay a staggering $1.5 billion to resolve a class-action lawsuit. This lawsuit was brought forth by a collective of writers who asserted that Anthropic had utilized books without permission to train its AI chatbot, Claude.