Do you like books? As someone who runs our museum’s Research Library and also has a day job at a university library, I definitely like books. Which is why this report by Futurism from over the past weekend is so infuriating. It seems AI companies – yes, even Anthropic, “the good one” – are runningContinue reading “AI Companies–yes, even “the good one”–Are Buying Rare Books, Scanning Them, and Pulping Them to Avoid Copyright Law”
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The Week In Slop, Week of 20 July 2026
THIS WEEK: OpenAI admits one of its agents “accidentally” attacked Hugging Face; AI ruins Belgium’s F1 race; Anthropic needs to pay up for all those books they pirated training Claude; Google ends a quarter with negative free cash flow–a first!–and you’ll never guess why; China’s Moonshot AI makes US companies freak out over open sourceContinue reading “The Week In Slop, Week of 20 July 2026”