For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as ...

Amazon is reportedly buying massive quantities of rare books, scanning their pages to train its AI models and destroying the tomes in the process — joining Anthropic, Meta and other tech giants in ...

Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. Documents made public in a lawsuit from authors against Anthropic earlier this year revealed the company had bought millions of ...

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 ...

A rare bookseller suspected AI companies were quietly buying up rare books to train their models, then destroying them. To find out for sure, they planted an AirTag inside a shipment and tracked where ...

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In August 2026, a claim circulated online that tech giant Amazon was acquiring large quantities of books, some of them rare, and cutting off the spines to more efficiently scan the pages for ...

Decades after becoming the internet's first major bookseller, Amazon is now buying rare books to scan and destroy them. It joins the likes of Google and Anthropic, which have reportedly been buying up ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amazon is buying used books, scanning them to train its AI systems and then destroying them, according to a 404 Media ...