Amazon-backed Anthropic hit with class-action lawsuit over copyright infringement

Anthropic, the Amazon-backed artificial intelligence startup, on Monday was hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court over alleged copyright infringement. Three authors said

that Anthropic “built a multibillion-dollar business by stealing hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books,” including their own.

Anthropic, which was founded by ex-OpenAI research executives, has backers including Google and