Amazon has been buying books in bulk and scanning them at a Las Vegas warehouse, cutting spines and destroying the books, according to a tracking device placed by 404 Media. Amazon confirmed it buys b…
Amazon is reportedly buying massive quantities of rare books, scanning their pages to train its AI models, and destroying the tomes in the process, according to a report by 404 Media. The report track…
AI firms are buying and destroying second-hand books in the UK to train models, with Anthropic's 'Project Panama' leading the effort. The practice, which involves stripping spines for rapid scanning a…
An investigation by 404 Media, which placed an AirTag inside a shipment of rare books, found that Amazon buys printed books in bulk, scans them for AI training data, and destroys them at a Las Vegas w…
Anthropic, the creator of Claude AI, was sued for $1.5 billion USD in July 2026 over the training of its AI model on illegally sourced content, and a U.S. judge approved the settlement. The lawsuit re…
Book Haven in Wellington's Newtown has cancelled bulk orders from a Canadian buyer after discovering the books were being purchased to train AI large language models, with owner Anne-Marie Thorby tell…
Anthropic PBC, the AI company behind the Claude large language model, engaged in 'Project Panama,' a destructive scanning effort that destroyed physical books to train its AI, according to court docum…
Anthropic has been buying millions of physical books, destroying their bindings, and scanning the pages to train its large language models, according to newly unsealed court documents. The practice, k…
Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, has spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring millions of antiquarian books to scan for training its large language models, then destroying them, according t…
AI companies are targeting London's rare bookshops in a 'dystopian' hunt for training data, after court documents revealed Anthropic bought, scanned and destroyed millions of physical books under a se…
David released libargus.cc, a low-latency local LLM runner that uses OpenJDK Project Panama's Foreign Function & Memory API (Java 22) to interface directly with llama.cpp, whisper.cpp, and ggml comput…
A developer ported a C stress test to Clojure and achieved near-parity performance (0.86 ms vs 0.70 ms per frame) by using the JVM Vector API, static final species references, macros, and JDK 25, demo…
Mochallama, a new Java library, enables running llama.cpp inference directly within a Java process using JDK 22's Foreign Function and Memory (FFM) API, eliminating the need for separate daemon proces…