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”
Tag Archives: books
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”
A Brief History of Sound Recording book now available
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A Brief History of Sound Recording: Fully Incomplete and Highly Biasedby Dr John Kannenberg Imprint: Museum of Portable Sound PressOn sale: 27 November 2025Price: £30.00Pages: 124ISBN: 9798347413720 CONTACT:Johnjohn[at]museumofportablesound.com “A true labour of love and well worth your time.” —Wallpaper* Magazine, December 2025 Ten years in the making, this unconventional history of audioContinue reading “A Brief History of Sound Recording book now available”
Research Library Catalogue Now Available
What kind of research goes into the design, creation, and maintenance of a museum dedicated to the culture and history of sound? Now’s your chance to find out, as we unlock our Research Library and present the Museum of Portable Sound Research Library Catalogue: 1,400 books, articles, patents, manuals, audio recordings, and more – including linksContinue reading “Research Library Catalogue Now Available”
Our Adult Colouring-In Book Now Available
Relax, learn, and create! The Museum of Portable Sound Adult Colouring-In Book tells a mini-history of portable sound technologies through a series of patent drawings suitable for colouring in! Includes drawings of the first transistor radio, the ‘Miami Vice’ mobile phone, the Walkman, the iPod, and much more! Each drawing includes a descriptive object label,Continue reading “Our Adult Colouring-In Book Now Available”