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Why AI Companies Are Destroying Books

The article reports that Anthropic and Amazon have reportedly purchased large volumes of physical books, scanned them, and destroyed the originals to reduce copyright risk in AI training. It argues that this strategy is tied to differences in US and Chinese copyright law, while also raising concerns about the irreversible loss of cultural artifacts.

Unverified Harness Claims to Beat Fable 5

Unverified Harness Claims to Beat Fable 5

The community project J-Space Cognition Suite claims to improve DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813 through an inference-time Agent Harness without changing model weights. Its reported gains on several benchmarks have not been independently reproduced, and the project is unrelated to Anthropic's internal J-space interpretability research.

AI Book Destruction Is More Complicated

AI Book Destruction Is More Complicated

AI companies are buying large volumes of second-hand books, cutting off their spines, scanning them, and destroying the physical copies. The article argues that this is not equivalent to burning books because the information is preserved digitally, while warning that rare and culturally valuable editions may still be harmed.

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