On July 17, 2025, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that three authors (Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson) can represent all U.S. writers whose works Anthropic allegedly downloaded from pirate libraries LibGen and PiLiMi. According to Reuters, Alsup said Anthropic may have illegally downloaded as many as seven million books, exposing the Amazon‑ and Alphabet‑backed startup to over a trillion dollars in damages. Continue Reading →