US President Donald Trump on Friday lashed out against the European Union’s $3.47 billion antitrust fine against Google as “unfair” and threatened retaliatory tariffs if the bloc does not reverse the penalty. Trump's rebuke came a day after he hosted tech leaders, including Google’s top executives, at a White House dinner.
Issued on: 05/09/2025 -
By: FRANCE 24
US President Donald Trump lashed out at the European Union Friday for slapping Google with an "unfair" $3.47 billion antitrust fine, threatening retaliatory tariffs if the bloc does not repeal the measure.
Trump's intervention came a day after he hosted tech titans for a gala dinner at the White House including Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai and co-founder Sergey Brin.
"Europe today 'hit' another great American company, Google, with a $3.5 Billion Dollar fine, effectively taking money that would otherwise go to American Investments and Jobs," Trump said on his Truth Social network.
"Very unfair, and the American taxpayer will not stand for it!" Trump said.
Trump said the Google fine came on top of a series of other cases including Apple, which in 2016 was ordered by Brussels to pay Ireland back taxes totalling €13 billion plus interest.
"They should get their money back!" he said, adding that if not then he would start proceedings for retaliatory tariffs to "nullify the unfair penalties".
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During the White House dinner on Thursday, Trump had congratulated Pichai and Brin over a US judge's ruling earlier this week which rejected the government's demand that Google sell its Chrome web browser as part of a major antitrust case.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
US: Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion in AI lawsuit settlement
What are the implications of the settlement?
According to the legal filing, the settlement, which requires judicial approval, covers around 500,000 books. Approximately $3,000 (€2,500) will be paid for each affected work.
"This settlement sends a strong message to the AI industry that there are serious consequences when they pirate authors' works to train their AI, robbing those least able to afford it," said Mary Rasenberger, CEO of the Authors Guild, in a statement supporting the deal.
There are several ongoing similar lawsuits against tech companies like OpenAI and Meta.
Copyright holders argue that collecting copyrighted content without permission violates intellectual property rights.
Edited by: Dmytro Hubenko
Emmy Sasipornkarn
DW with AFP, Reuters, dpa
If the court approves the deal, it will be the largest in the history of US copyright cases, according to lawyers for the authors.
US artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic will pay at least $1.5 billion (€1.3 billion) to settle a class action lawsuit brought by authors, according to court documents filed Friday.
"This landmark settlement far surpasses any other known copyright recovery," said plaintiffs' attorney Justin Nelson. "It is the first of its kind in the AI era."
A trio of authors, Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, filed the lawsuit last year, accusing Anthropic of using pirated books to train the company's AI chatbot Claude — a major competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude is considered a major competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT
Image: Andrej Sokolow/dpa/picture alliance
US artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic will pay at least $1.5 billion (€1.3 billion) to settle a class action lawsuit brought by authors, according to court documents filed Friday.
"This landmark settlement far surpasses any other known copyright recovery," said plaintiffs' attorney Justin Nelson. "It is the first of its kind in the AI era."
A trio of authors, Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, filed the lawsuit last year, accusing Anthropic of using pirated books to train the company's AI chatbot Claude — a major competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
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What are the implications of the settlement?
According to the legal filing, the settlement, which requires judicial approval, covers around 500,000 books. Approximately $3,000 (€2,500) will be paid for each affected work.
"This settlement sends a strong message to the AI industry that there are serious consequences when they pirate authors' works to train their AI, robbing those least able to afford it," said Mary Rasenberger, CEO of the Authors Guild, in a statement supporting the deal.
There are several ongoing similar lawsuits against tech companies like OpenAI and Meta.
Copyright holders argue that collecting copyrighted content without permission violates intellectual property rights.
Edited by: Dmytro Hubenko
Emmy Sasipornkarn
Multimedia journalist with a focus on Asia
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