3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (792+ words) At an industrial facility on Nicco Way, on the northeast edge of the Las Vegas Valley, workers manually feed books into machines that slice off their bindings. A worker inserts a book, presses a button and watches as a blade…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (552+ words) Why books still matter in the age of AI. U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued a landmark split ruling in [Bartz v. Anthropic] that found AI training on legally obtained books is fair use, but acquiring those same works from pirate sites…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (503+ words) In Haarlem, the Netherlands, bookseller Pieter de Vries received an unusual request. A contact named Natalia or Nataly said she was acting for 2077AI. This Singapore-based foundation presents itself as specializing in data for artificial intelligence. According to the email and…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (404+ words) At the legal level, the judge ruled that using legally obtained books to train AI constitutes fair use, and format conversion to digital copies is also valid. However, the article emphasizes that the deeper issue is not the "book destruction…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (699+ words) Books are a valuable part of our cultural heritage. They are preserved and made accessible in libraries (in this case, the SUB Göttingen). Foto (ed.): mibuchat, CC BY-SA The retro-digitization (usually referred to simply as “digitization”) of books is typically…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (294+ words) Are We Still Reading If AI Reads The Book For Us (Picture Credit - iStock) It sounds enormously useful. It also raises a question publishing has barely begun to answer: if AI increasingly mediates our relationship with books, what exactly are…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (231+ words) The targeting of books is as old as the book itself. Books have been censored, banned, torn, burnt, and pulverised to suppress opposing views, enforce state ideologies, silence uncomfortable truths, or for being deemed heretical. Why are these two different…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (217+ words) We’ve been writing about AI companies buying rare books and destroying them in order to keep feeding more information to the AI chatbots. We learned a new word for it too, destructive scanning. At the The Guardian, last month, Kathryn…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (479+ words) Jeanie Buss contests Josh Kushner and Bob Iger’s $12.5B purchase of Lakers Crocodile that ate Dinosaurs reappears Harvard discloses $2.2B investment in SpaceX Ariana Grande announces step away from the public eye post-tour Anthropic, the tech company behind Claude, has recently faced…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (809+ words) An AirTag-tracked shipment reached Amazon’s LAS8 facility, where VGT3 reportedly cuts bindings for scanning. Here’s what is known and unknown. The broader story also includes a separate reported order of 5,000 books described by bookseller Tomás Kenny. That order is not the same…...