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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots. U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued the approval in San Francisco federal court Thursday after the two sides worked to address his concerns about the settlement, which will pay authors and publishers about $3,000 for each of the books covered by the agreement. It does not apply to future works. A Monday filing sought to convince the judge that the ...

Sebabatso Mosamo, an AP visual journalist in South Africa, has died

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Sebabatso Mosamo, an Associated Press visual journalist in South Africa who documented elections, the COVID-19 pandemic and her country’s struggle with poverty and violence, has died. She was 39. Mosamo died at a hospital in Johannesburg on Saturday after falling ill a week earlier, a family spokesperson said. No cause of death was immediately released. Known by colleagues and friends as “Sebs,” Mosamo joined the AP in 2021 after working for several prominent South African news outlets, using photos and video to tell intimate stories about ...

Husband of Suzanne Morphew appears in court to face murder charge a second time

DENVER (AP) — The husband of a woman who disappeared on Mother’s Day 2020 appeared in court in Colorado on Tuesday for the first time since being charged again with murder in her death. Barry Morphew was arrested June 20 in Arizona after being newly indicted in the death of Suzanne Morphew, three years after the initial case against him was dropped because of prosecutorial issues with evidence. Authorities announced Monday that he had arrived at the jail in the small southern Colorado city of Alamosa, not far from where Suzanne Morphew’s skeletal remains were found off a dirt ...