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🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world." My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation." I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate. "We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline. Hedgie🤗

SF has thrown tens of millions at Market Street since 2019 and can't name a single person accountable for whether it worked—or whether there's even a plan. In April, the Board admitted it didn't know which department is in charge of the project. Three months later, nothing has changed.

Moonshot AI also had some problems with Kimi K3 agents trying to escape, so they just made a better sandbox. Funny how that works. The sandbox environment they run is even open source. Love the transparency here.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Jensen Huang: AI = American Intelligence 🇺🇸 “AI makes America the dominant country in the world.” “I spent half my life in Europe—they’re whining and crying. We have the right chips, software, engineers, culture…” “It’s combining into a juggernaut.”

Palantir CEO Alex Karp kicked off our first Sovereignty Bootcamp, bringing together 150+ customers to share how they are owning their alpha with Palantir and why sovereign AI will be the most important wave of the AI revolution. Watch his full intro remarks below.