We noted this summer that creators of all stripes were celebrating news that AI company Anthropic was ready to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a trio of authors over pirated books used to train its chatbot Claude. A federal judge dealt the case a mixed ruling in June, finding that training AI chatbots on copyrighted books wasn't illegal but that Anthropic wrongfully acquired millions of books through pirate websites. But earlier this month came reports that the company had agreed to pay authors or publishers $1.5 billion to settle the case. In still another twist, Judge William Alsup has rejected the settlement over concerns about its terms.

   Wednesday, September 17: Coco Fusco | Tomorrow I Will Become an Island at el Museo The first U.S. survey of the influential Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco covers more than three decades of her groundbreaking career. The exhibition explores central concerns that Fusco has addressed across her practice, including immigration, military power and surveillance, post-revolutionary Cuban history, and the lasting legacies of colonialism. Fusco’s inter...