All right, welcome back. As we close in on the 6 am Eastern time hour, a check on a few stories that we are tracking this morning. A federal judge is giving preliminary approval for Anthropic's offer to pay $1.5% billion dollars to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of authors.The lawsuit alleges the AI startup illegally downloaded books from pirated databases. Shares of Six Flags higher on a report activist investor Land and Buildings Investment Management plans to pressure the company to spin off ...