Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement raises a drawbridge on its startup rivals, which could not afford to pay such fines, setting an AI copyright floor price (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement raises a drawbridge on its startup rivals, which could not afford to pay such fines, setting an AI copyright floor price  —  $1.5B.  Damn.  Who can afford to pay that?  —  There I was, just sitting there enjoying life when I got the push notification …