Rare Book News

A Bengaluru man accused of stealing a rare book from the Nilgiri Library in Udhagamandalam has been acquitted, after the book was reported missing following a l

NPR's Juana Summers discusses with Emanuel Maiberg of 404 Media his investigation into tech companies, including Amazon AI, acquiring rare old books to train th

A hidden Apple AirTag in a rare book revealed Amazon's AI training data operation, tracing the book from California to a Las Vegas warehouse where books are sca

An Airtag hidden in a rare book has reportedly revealed that Amazon is destroying rare books after scanning them to train its AI models, with the device tracked

Booksellers are concerned that AI companies are purchasing and destroying rare books to quickly scan them for AI model training, leading to potential loss of ph

AI companies are reportedly destroying rare physical books published before 2022 by spine-cutting them for rapid digitization to train large language models, ra

Artificial intelligence's demand for data is now extending to the consumption of rare books.

The Department of Archaeology, Museums and Heritage, Mysuru, in collaboration with Anubhava Mantapa Servants of Knowledge Association, will digitise 18,000 rare

A man involved in a rare book heist has been sentenced after stealing $216,000 worth of manuscripts from a UCLA library, often traveling to China shortly after