Nepal, Nov. 28 -- Anthropic, the San Francisco-originated AI company behind the Claude model, recently faced a class action lawsuit over alleged unauthorised use of books to train its systems. The $1.5 billion settlement, covering approximately $3,000 per book across hundreds of thousands of titles, is now the largest copyright recovery in history and the first major settlement of its kind in the AI-era.

AI firms that feed models with massive, scraped datasets are entering a period of sharp legal scrutiny. This coincides with what economists and tech leaders describe as an emerging 'AI-driven tech bubble' wherein valuations are inflating faster than revenues or defensible moats. Prominent tech CEOs, including Sam Altman and Sundar Pichai...