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Amazon is destroying rare books to train its AI models, investigation finds

Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. is buying large quantities of rare and out-of-print books, slicing off their spines for faster scanning, and destroying the originals — all to feed training data into its AI models. An investigation published Monday by 404 Media…

Rushdie to publish first fiction since 2022 stabbing

Salman Rushdie makes his momentous return to fiction on November 4 with "The Eleventh Hour," marking his first collection of stories since surviving a brutal 2022 stabbing attack that nearly claimed his life. The 78-year-old author explores mortality and what…