Tracking devices in book shipments reportedly led to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas emblazoned with a book-hungry dinosaur.

For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as ...

404 Media put an Apple AirTag in a rare book and tracked it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where a team cuts the bindings off books and scans the pages. The reporting method has roots in a ...

A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where workers cut spines off books to scan them ...

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Amazon rare books AI training confirmed: a 404 Media investigation placed a $29 AirTag in a 1,000-book bulk order and tracked it to Amazon's Las Vegas warehouse LAS8, where a unit called VGT3 cuts ...

Amazon is buying and destroying printed books for AI training, exposing a new front in the race for high-quality ...

The company, which sells textbooks and course materials, announced Tuesday (May 23) that it would keep offering textbook rentals, something it had been doing in partnership with Amazon. “College ...

Amazon has released a new mobile app for iOS aimed at students. You can use Amazon Student to buy items from your phone or scan barcodes to check prices so that you can decide whether to buy that ...

A study suggests 63% of sampled Amazon religious books may be AI-written, raising questions about authorship, authenticity ...