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Spotify is partnering with Bookshop.org to allow Premium users in the US and UK to purchase hardcover and paperback books through its app this spring; Bookshop.org fulfills orders (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Nick, Dick and Paul Show: Side effects may include… (Wellness Industry, Part 2) Nick Bilton, Dick Costolo…

Technology

Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically asked (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 10, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: The race for AI glasses is heating up. A show about the inside conversations of the tech…

Politics

While Trump Books Bomb, Kamala Harris writes the best -selling memories of 2025

By Frank M. EverettOctober 1, 2025

It is a safe supposition that no one had Kamala Harris wrote the best -selling political memories of 2025 on…

Technology

An extract of books details how a small team of Content Conservatives hired by Bytedance in Mexico City in 2018 shaped the Tiktok algorithm for you in Latin America (Emily Baker-White / Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 28, 2025

Emily Baker-White / Forbes:: An extract of books details how a small team of Content Conservatives hired by Bytedance in…

Technology

An extract of books details the spotify push of a decade against the commissions and the rules of management of Apple Apple, in particular by pushing the EU to adopt new antitrust laws (Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 6, 2025

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:: A book extract details the spotify push for a decade against the commissions and…

Politics

Trump’s books bombed as consumer media lose his meal ticket

By Frank M. EverettJuly 25, 2025

Politicususa is one of the independent solitary voices in an endless flow of the mainstream media of Trump-Caving. We need…

Technology

The researchers find that Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of the popular books protected by copyright, perhaps weakening the AI industry affirms that such memorization is marginal behavior (Timothy B. Lee / Understanding AI)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 15, 2025

Featured podcasts Techmeme comes home: Omnibus 06/09 The news of the day, every day at 5 p.m. he. Fifteen minutes…

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An American federal judge authorizes the case of meta from Kadrey v. Meta, in which the authors allege that Meta violated intellectual property rights using their books to form Llama models, to move forward (Anthony Ha / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 8, 2025

Anthony Ha / Techcrunch:: An American federal judge authorizes the case of meta from Kadrey v. Meta, in which the…

1MDB fugitive Jho Low asked US President Trump for forgiveness, report says – The Diplomat

Pakistan’s biggest film goes to China. The real test of cultural connections comes next. – The diplomat

Russia and the Sino-American summit – The Diplomat

Why hasn’t China criticized Australia’s national defense strategy? – The diplomat

Japan’s Middle Power Arming Strategy in the Indo-Pacific – The Diplomat

Biogen Alzheimer’s drug moves into late-stage trial

Versant (VSNT) Q1 2026 results

Allegiant CEO defends low-cost airline plan as Sun Country deal closes

Beer demand falls due to rising gas prices, data shows

Kool-Aid Kraft Heinz to launch electrolytes without artificial colors

JD Vance Compares Himself to Child Abandoned at Deranged White House Event

Trump barely arrives in China with a thud

Kash Patel Shamed for Alleged Drinking During Senate Hearing

He doesn’t care about the American people

Investigation expanded into Trump demanding editorial control over CNN

Anthropic and the Gates Foundation pledge $200 million to use AI in health and education initiatives; the foundation signed a similar $50 million deal with OpenAI in January (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

Klarna reports first-quarter revenue up 44% year-over-year to $1.01 billion, above estimate, GMV up 33% to $33.7 billion, active customers up 20% to $119 million and profit of $1 million, up from a loss of $99 million year-over-year (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 29% year-over-year to ~$67 billion and net profit up 19% year-over-year to ~$1.6 billion, matching estimate as it boosts production of AI servers, its largest source of revenue (Wall Street Journal)

Filing: Jensen Huang’s foundation purchased $108.3 million worth of AI computing time from CoreWeave and is donating it to universities and other nonprofit institutes (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI’s financial sector push, but financiers rarely use it for their work (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Browsing: books

Spotify is partnering with Bookshop.org to allow Premium users in the US and UK to purchase hardcover and paperback books through its app this spring; Bookshop.org fulfills orders (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)

Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically asked (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)

While Trump Books Bomb, Kamala Harris writes the best -selling memories of 2025

An extract of books details how a small team of Content Conservatives hired by Bytedance in Mexico City in 2018 shaped the Tiktok algorithm for you in Latin America (Emily Baker-White / Forbes)

An extract of books details the spotify push of a decade against the commissions and the rules of management of Apple Apple, in particular by pushing the EU to adopt new antitrust laws (Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal)

Trump’s books bombed as consumer media lose his meal ticket

The researchers find that Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of the popular books protected by copyright, perhaps weakening the AI industry affirms that such memorization is marginal behavior (Timothy B. Lee / Understanding AI)

An American federal judge authorizes the case of meta from Kadrey v. Meta, in which the authors allege that Meta violated intellectual property rights using their books to form Llama models, to move forward (Anthony Ha / Techcrunch)