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404 Media reports that ISBNdb, a book-metadata company, now sources printed books in bulk for AI labs to scan destructively. Booksellers in Europe describe similar mass orders. How many rare titles are actually being pulped remains unquantified.
Ryan Marshall · 4 min read
An Associated Press report says American firms and independent developers are switching to models from Moonshot, Z.ai and DeepSeek because they are cheap, openly available and "good enough." The capability gap, and the finances behind it, are less settled than the adoption numbers suggest.
Ryan Marshall · 4 min read
A proposed AI Kill Switch Act would require a mechanism to halt AI systems in an emergency. The concept is not new; putting it in statute would be. Key definitions remain unverified.
Ryan Marshall · 3 min read
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