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What to read this weekend: Jeff VanderMeer returns to Area X
One thing I did not foresee happening this year was us getting a new entry in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series. But the author announced exactly that back...
More than 10,500 artists sign open letter protesting unlicensed AI training
Some of the biggest names in Hollywood, literature and music have issued a warning to the artificial intelligence industry. reports that more than 10,500 artists have signed...
Penguin Random House amends its copyright rules to protect authors from AI
Artificial intelligence makers have faced a mountain of criticism for borrowing from the work of others to train its models. Now the world’s largest publishing house is taking...
What to read this weekend: Preventing an asteroid apocalypse, and Cult of the Lamb’s first arc wraps up
New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.HarperNormally a book described as being largely about a teen love triangle wouldn’t be something I’d reach for,...
The history of overhyped tech, and a chilling new graphic novel from Charles Burns
New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.W. W. Norton & CompanyRichard Powers’ Playground is a novel of contrasts: the vast unknown of Earth’s oceans,...
Generative AI Hype Feels Inescapable. Tackle It Head On With Education
Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton University, is best known for calling out the hype surrounding artificial intelligence in his Substack, AI Snake Oil, written with...
