Why Anthropic Just Lost 10% of Their $13 Billion Raise

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September 9, 2025
Join 40,000 readers and get the full notes and summary: https://newsletter.aiwithkyle.com/subscribe 🎟️ Kyle recently appeared as the first-ever guest on the "AI for the Rest of Us" podcast, available on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts. He's also speaking at their upcoming conference on 15-16th October in London: AI for the Rest of Us conference, London : https://luma.com/AIfortherestofus25 (Use code **IAMWITHKYLE** for a discount). Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/@iamkylebalmer?sub_confirmation=1 Want to become an AI Trainer fast? Apply to join the next AI Workshop Kit cohort: https://newsletter.aiwithkyle.com/c/workshop-kit This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’ First aired: 5 September 2025 Watch full edited live stream: https://youtu.be/aFA-fA00b7g —— More Useful Resources —— My other daily live show - 30-day building a business in public challenge: https://www.youtube.com/live/Z0Z_1Eg3HUk (day one) Free AI Entrepreneurship Playbooks: https://aiwithkyle.com/catalog Free Quiz: What AI business should you start? https://aiwithkyle.com/tools Free AI Training Business Planner: https://aiwithkyle.com/tools/workshop-builder Free 10-Week ‘Vibe Coding’ AI Summer Camp: https://aiwithkyle.com/courses/10-week-ai-summer-camp —— Contact —— Best is in YouTube comments. For business enquiries only: https://www.passionfroot.me/iamkylebalmer Anthropic just paid $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit with book authors - that's 10% of their entire $13 billion Series F funding round. The company scraped millions of books from piracy sites like Anna's Archive to train their AI models, along with every other major AI company. Now they're paying $3,000 per copyrighted work, setting a massive precedent for the industry.