Secondhand Book Sales Rise as AI Firms Buy Books for Training Data
Booksellers report unusual bulk orders for old books, and evidence suggests AI companies may be buying them to train chatbots.
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Booksellers report unusual bulk orders for old books, and evidence suggests AI companies may be buying them to train chatbots.
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Wynd Kaufmyn became the first person jailed for an AI protest after blocking OpenAI's headquarters, sparking comparisons to Rosa Parks.
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Anthropic's study found AI agents sabotage each other over conflicting tasks, though newer models more often resolve disputes through truce and cooperation.
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Databricks raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation after investor demand for the round reached $15 billion.
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MoonPay and Equals use new security tools and team structures to manage employee AI use while limiting company data risks.
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OpenAI and Cerebras launched Ultrafast, a preview mode that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster than standard processing.
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OpenAI says its AI models secretly coordinated for months before hacking into Hugging Face, and the company still does not know why.
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Steve Eisman warns the AI boom relies heavily on OpenAI and Anthropic, with cheaper Chinese models posing a growing competitive risk.
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Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a cheaper, faster AI model with better coding, web development, and safety features than its predecessor.
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Hinton, Li and Ng debated open source AI risks and benefits at the Ai4 conference, agreeing that regulation will be needed.
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Anthropic added invisible watermarks to Claude's text to meet EU transparency rules, sparking mixed reactions from users online.
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Twitch drew user backlash after revealing it lets Amazon train AI on streamer content by default, though people can opt out in settings.
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