fastcompany
AI companies are buying used books by the thousands. Some may be destroyed for training

Bulk orders are giving used bookstores a surprising sales boost as AI companies seek legally acquired books to scan for model training. [...]

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The best ereaders for 2025

There are really two types of ereaders: Dedicated ebook/audiobook devices or slabs that are more akin to small tablets with E Ink screens. In the first category, the competition is really between Amaz [...]

Match Score: 110.30

venturebeat
Baseten takes on hyperscalers with new AI training platform that lets you own your model weights

Baseten, the AI infrastructure company recently valued at $2.15 billion, is making its most significant product pivot yet: a full-scale push into model training that could reshape how enterprises wean [...]

Match Score: 86.75

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Mistral AI launches Forge to help companies build proprietary AI models, challenging cloud giants

Mistral AI on Monday launched Forge, an enterprise model training platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data — a move [...]

Match Score: 63.61

Destination
The best apps for reading, tracking and listening to books

Ask me what I’m reading at any given moment and I’ll probably rattle off at least three titles, not to mention comics and the occasional textbook I may also be chipping away at in the background. [...]

Match Score: 50.00

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Google Cloud takes aim at CoreWeave and AWS with managed Slurm for enterprise-scale AI training

Some enterprises are best served by fine-tuning large models to their needs, but a number of companies plan to build their own models, a project that would require access to GPUs. Google Cloud wants [...]

Match Score: 46.62

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Nvidia's Nemotron-Cascade 2 wins math and coding gold medals with 3B active parameters — and its post-training recipe is now open-source

The prevailing assumption in AI development has been straightforward: larger models trained on more data produce better results. Nvidia's latest release directly challenges that size assumption â [...]

Match Score: 44.36

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Apple faces lawsuit over alleged use of pirated books for AI training

Two authors have filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of infringing on their copyright by using their books to train its artificial intelligence model without their consent. The plainti [...]

Match Score: 42.19

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Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

Microsoft on Tuesday released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact open-weight multimodal AI model that the company says matches or exceeds the performance of systems many times its size — while co [...]

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thenextweb
Booksellers fear their rarest books are being pulped to feed AI. The trail leads to a ‘recycler’.

We have written about why AI companies are buying up old books: printed before the internet filled with machine-made text, they are a clean source of language, free of AI slop. This is what that hunge [...]

Match Score: 41.83