AI Is Now Eating Books... Literally | 7.29.26
Published: July 29, 2026
Duration: 45:00
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00:00:00 Timestamps
00:01:00 Wes is officially IN Japan (first Smoking Lounge review), and other headlines
00:07:25 AI companies, at least Anthropic according to lawsuit document, are buying pre-2023 books to literally eat them (to death) into their data training model for LLMs
00:19:48 ECommerce Bytes wins $50 Million from settlement with EBay + Meme News is the BEST
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