Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday informed the Lok Sabha that special trains with reserved accommodation are operated at comparatively higher fares than regular scheduled trains. Vaishnaw ...

AI companies are buying physical books in bulk to train chatbots, then destroying the copies. Here’s what’s going on.

In 'The New Divide', Jibu Elias questions how AI is reshaping how we think, work, and create.

Australian booksellers fear rare and out-of-print books are being bought in bulk, scanned and destroyed to train artificial intelligence models, raising fresh concerns about cultural heritage and AI's ...

Today, some books are taking a very different route. They are bought in bulk, scanned into machine-readable text and, in some ...

Thomson Reuters Corporation ( TRI:CA) Q2 2026 Earnings Call August 5, 2026 8:30 AM EDT Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Thomson Reuters Second Quarter Earnings Call. Today's conference is being ...

As AI companies increasingly acquire and destroy physical books to train advanced models, a deeper debate is unfolding over the future of reading, culture, and human creativity. While digitisation ...

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A book-metadata company that had openly marketed itself as a bulk supplier of physical books to AI companies for training purposes quietly reversed course after a journalist investigation exposed the ...

Wu Shaoping had already beaten the odds by getting admitted to the top middle and high school in Zhenghe County, Fujian ...

Nigeria is a country living two parallel realities, a double life. On paper, it is Africa’s largest economy, biggest ...

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