On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company ...

A $29 Apple AirTag, hidden inside a single rare book, has led an investigation to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where employees dismantle books and scan their pages to generate data for AI training ...

One of the stories of the last few weeks has been that AI companies have been scanning books in very large numbers in order to train their models with content guaranteed to have been written before ...