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‘Sketchy AF’: What to Know About How OpenAI Staff Discussed Book-Pirating (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-09-19 | tags: openai, chatgpt, copyright case

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AI Firms Knew Chatbots Were an ‘Existential Threat’ to Journalists, Court Docs Show (cnet.com)

2026-09-18 | by Jon Reed | tags: openai copyright lawsuit, microsoft ai training, new york times lawsuit

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-18 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: microsoft, openai, new york times

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Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: disallow ai training, cloudflare, ai summaries

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Don’t trust AI companies with your content. Verify them instead (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-11 | tags: anthropic, sony music, warner music

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What happened when Meta tried to collect employee data (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-11 | get Logitech MX Master 3S wireless mouse → | tags: meta, model capability initiative, ai training data

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Microsoft strikes deal with national teachers union to not use school data to train AI (engadget.com)

2026-09-09 | by Lawrence Bonk | get Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3 → | tags: microsoft, american federation of teachers, ai training data

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Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot (theverge.com)

2026-09-04 | by Lauren Feiner | get New York Times digital subscription gift card → | tags: microsoft, copilot, nytimes

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Universities are charging up to $28,000 to train executives to become chief AI officers (techspot.com)

2026-08-25 | by Kishalaya Kundu | get Co-Intelligence Ethan Mollick book → | tags: chief ai officer, university of chicago, ai training programs

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Twitch and Amazon face legal action over using livestreams to train AI (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-24 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | get Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 → | tags: twitch, amazon, ai training

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Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content (engadget.com)

2026-08-23 | by Jackson Chen | get Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 → | tags: twitch, amazon, ai training

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Rare-Book Sales Are Booming. They’re Getting Sliced Up and Fed to AI. (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-22 | tags: rare books, ai training, large language models

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AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-21 | by Marina Temkin | tags: micro1, ai training data, mercor

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Report: Amazon Is Buying Rare Books in Bulk and Destroying Them to Train AI — A Hidden AirTag Proved It (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jon Small | tags: amazon, airtag, vgt3

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Hidden AirTag appears to confirm suspicions about illicit AI book scanning (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-19 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: airtag, amazon, ai training

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AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: amazon, airtag, ai training

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Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: amazon, airtag, ai training

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Google DeepMind’s Chief AI Officer Got the Job With No AI Training. Here’s What Set Her Apart. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-17 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: deepmind, ai readiness officer, lila ibrahim

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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: amazon, rare books, ai training

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Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility (slashdot.org)

2026-08-17 | tags: amazon, ai training, vgt3

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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-17 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: amazon, rare books, ai training

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Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-17 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: amazon, rare books, ai training

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Aug | tags: amazon, ai training, vgt3

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Twitch Adds Setting Letting Users Opt Out of AI Training Amid User Backlash (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: twitch, amazon, ai training

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Twitch finally lets you opt out of AI training, years after it started (techspot.com)

2026-08-13 | by Rob Thubron | tags: twitch, amazon, ai training

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Twitch finally gives streamers an AI training opt-out after Amazon quietly used their content for years (techspot.com)

2026-08-13 | by Rob Thubron | tags: twitch, amazon, ai training

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How to stop Twitch from training AI on your streams (engadget.com)

2026-08-12 | by Karissa Bell | tags: twitch, ai training, youtube

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Independent bookstores in Europe receive suspicious orders for thousands of books, prompting fears they'll be destroyed to train AI — sellers believe acquisitions are part of AI tech companies’ push to get more data (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jowi Morales | tags: amazon, ai training, independent bookstores

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Company Offering Printed Books To Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: isbndb, ai training, printed books

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Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-30 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: reddit, google, ai training