17 Days Left: How to Claim Your $3,000+ From Anthropic's $1.5B AI Copyright Settlement

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For the week ending March, 13, 2026, Author Update covered major AI developments at Anthropic to the latest contest drama unfolding on X. We also looked at Amazon discontinuing its book club, what the platform’s new AI-powered prompts for sponsored ads could mean for authors running ads, and a surprising milestone as YouTube surpasses Disney in a key media metric. And we closed with a particularly spicy Zeitgeist segment.