It’s the 25th of June and I’m shivering in my lab-issued underwear in Fort Worth, Texas. Libby Cowgill, an anthropologist in a furry parka, has wheeled me and my cot into a metal-walled room set to 40 °F. A loud fan pummels me from above and siphons the dregs of my body heat through the…
Musk used to say Tesla would make 20 million cars and one million humanoid robots per year. The company’s board wants far less than that in exchange for $1 trillion.
Writers aren’t getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI — this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.