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An investigation traced a hidden tracking device inside a shipment of rare books straight to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where workers cut the spines off books to scan them for AI training data before destroying the originals.
Today we are covering:
Amazon is destroying scanned rare books at a Las Vegas facility to feed its AI training pipeline, a 404 Media investigation found
Uber and Zipline partner on drone delivery for Uber Eats, targeting 1 million deliveries a day by 2029
Anthropic’s Claude now embeds invisible watermarks in AI-generated text using Google’s SynthID system
