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New forum in Sevilla offers borrowers chance to rebalance the books — Global Issues
The Borrowers’ Forum is being hailed as a milestone in efforts to reform the international debt architecture, supported by the…
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Judge: Pirate libraries may have profited from Meta torrenting 80TB of books
It could certainly look worse for Meta if authors manage to present evidence supporting the second way that torrenting could…
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Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books
A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company by 13 book authors, including…
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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
But if you’re not intimately familiar with the AI industry and copyright, you might wonder: Why would a company spend…
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Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training
“This order doubts that any accused infringer could ever meet its burden of explaining why downloading source copies from pirate…
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10,000 historical children's books free to explore in digital archive
A vast digital trove of over 10,000 historical children’s books is available for free browsing and download at the University…
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A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors’ permission
Federal judge William Alsup ruled that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI models on published books without…
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I tried Google’s new Search Live feature and ended up debating an AI about books
Google’s new Search Live feature lets users hold real-time voice conversations with an AI-powered version of Search The Gemini-powered AI…
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Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)
Featured Podcasts Techmeme Ride Home: Omnibus 06/09 The day’s tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you’re…
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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books
Photo of the Chicago Sun-Times “Summer reading list for 2025” supplement. Credit: Rachel King / Bluesky Novelist Rachael King initially…
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