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Anthropic’s book-scanning operation, known internally as Project Panama, exposes a starkly physical side of the generative AI race: millions of paper books bought in bulk, mechanically disbound, fed through industrial scanners, digitized for use in building Claude, and then recycled. The newly...

Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, novelist Scott Turow and his company S.C.R.I.B.E. have sued Google, alleging that millions of copyrighted books and journal articles were copied without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The proposed class action seeks statutory damages...

GitHub is making one of its most consequential Copilot policy changes yet, and this time the company is being unusually direct about what it plans to do with user data. Beginning on April 24, 2026, GitHub says it will use interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ accounts to train and...

Paul Thurrott’s site has quietly—and unambiguously—reasserted that the content it publishes is proprietary and intended for personal, non‑commercial use only, explicitly forbidding automated scraping, bulk copying, and any reuse that would act as a “source of or substitute for the Service.”...

Alibaba’s consumer Qwen chat has quietly graduated from “research demo” to a transaction‑enabled assistant, and at the same moment the Wikimedia Foundation is re‑casting Wikipedia as a paid data partner for major AI labs — two linked developments that reveal how generative AI is evolving from...