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Aug 19, 2026
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Amazon buying and destroying rare books to train AI; a bunch of wild AI use in the courts; and Meta's new patent for its AI smart glasses.
Podcast: Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
Amazon buying and destroying rare books to train AI; a bunch of wild AI use in the courts; and Meta's new patent for its AI smart glasses.
TL;DRAI
Amazon acquires and destroys rare books to build training datasets for AI models, revealing aggressive data sourcing practices. For enterprise AI teams, this signals a broader copyright-compliance and ESG risk as foundation models require unprecedented scale of training data at uncertain cost to IP and brand.
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