That whole thing with Meta allegedly scraping all the world’s books using LibGen is back in the news. Cloudflare is fighting AI scraping with AI slop. A super interesting executive shakeup at Apple. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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FreshBooks.com
Links:
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem (The Atlantic)
Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content (The Register)
Apple Shuffles AI Executive Ranks in Bid to Turn Around Siri (Bloomberg)
Gmail rolling out AI-powered ‘Most relevant’ search update (9to5Google)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
How the AI Boom Created the Most Valuable Monopolies in History (Bloomberg)
One Man’s Crypto Windfall Is Funding a $1 Billion Space Station Dream (Bloomberg)
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