Data — Timeline

Dates are the underlying event or publication dates, from the rung's three sources. Dates of the Bartz rulings themselves are not given in the Authors Guild source and are not guessed here.

2026

September

• Sep 24 — [Ingest + Compile] Reddit's 2024 S-1 and Epoch AI's 2030 scaling report ingested and compiled: 3 sources, 3 concepts, 4 entities. Reddit's Q2 2026 10-Q was checked and not ingested — its $43.3M is "other revenue", not a licensing line (Frontier).
• Sep 24 — [Compile] First compile of the rung: 1 source, 2 concepts, 2 entities. (Index)
• Sep 11 — [Ingest] The Authors Guild settlement summary ingested — the rung's first source.

July

• Jul 31 — [Filing] Reddit's Q2 2026 10-Q: other revenue $43.3M (+24% on the year), no licensing figure broken out; licensing contract value now substantially from two partners. Checked, not ingested. (Frontier)

May

• May 14 — [Legal] Final approval hearing scheduled, 2 p.m. PT. The outcome is not in this KB. Secondary reporting of a July 2026 approval is unverified and not cited. (Source)

March

• Mar 30 — [Legal] Claims deadline for authors. (Source)

January

• Jan — [Data] The first of Reddit's January 2024 licences (two-to-three-year terms) reach the end of their term between January 2026 and January 2027; renewal terms are not in this KB. (Source)

2025

September

• Sep 25 — [Legal] Preliminary approval of the $1.5bn class settlement: ~500,000 qualifying titles, ~$3,000 per title minimum. The Authors Guild publishes its guide the same day. (Source · Concept)

2024

August

• Aug 20 — [Report] Epoch AI, Can AI scaling continue through 2030?: ~500T tokens of indexed web text against ~15T used; the text "data wall" in about five years at 4× a year compute growth; power binds first, then chips. (Source · Concept)

June

• Jun 6 — [Paper] Epoch AI, Will we run out of data?: ~300T-token effective stock fully used 2026–2032, central 2028 — four years later than its 2022 estimate. (Source · Concept)

February

• Feb 22 — [Filing] Reddit files its S-1: data licensing arrangements worth $203.0M in aggregate, at least $66.4M to be recognised in 2024, substantially all from one partner. (Source · Concept)

January

• Jan — [Data] Reddit signs the data licensing arrangements (two-to-three-year terms). (Source)

2022

November

• Nov 10 — [Paper] Epoch AI, Will we run out of ML data?: high-quality language data used up before 2026 (median ~2024). Later revised. (Source)

August

• Aug 10 — [Data] The date of Anthropic's download used in the eligibility rule: a book registered before it can qualify. (Source)

July

• Jul — [Data] Books downloaded from PiLiMi. (Source)

2021

June

• Jun — [Data] Books downloaded from LibGen. (Source)