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Episode: A 1997 Radiohead song is topping the charts, thanks to TikTok, plus Anthropic settled its AI book-training lawsuit, and US sanctioned a fraud network used by North Koreans
Description: Thanks to an unexpected surge in popularity on TikTok, Radiohead now has its fourth-ever song on the Billboard Hot 100: the morosely gorgeous track âLet Downâ from the 1997 album âOK Computer.â âLet Downâ never broke through to mainstream attention like Radioheadâs âCreepâ or âKarma Police,â but itâs by no means a deep cut, like the Pavement B-side âHarness Your Hopesâ that went viral due to a quirk in Spotifyâs recommendation algorithm. This Radiohead song is a fan favorite from an album thatâs considered among the best rock records of all time.
Anthropic has settled a class ac...