Big Tech's court wins in AI copyright cases could upend the internet as we know it

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Big Tech just won big in the battle over data and copyright. The implications for business, publishing, and the future of the web are profound.

Two recent US court rulings, including one in favor of Anthropic's use of millions of books for AI training, have nudged the legal consensus closer to this reality...