‘AI’ named most notable word of 2023 by Collins dictionary

Chosen from a list that includes ‘greedflation’, ‘nepo baby’ and ‘deinfluencing’, use of term has quadrupled this year

‘The potential to undermine democracy’: European publishing trade bodies call for action on generative AI

Three organisations argue that more transparency is needed after research found AI models have been trained using pirated works by authors such as Zadie Smith and Stephen King

Spotify’s new audiobook streaming could have ‘devastating effect’, says Society of Authors

The industry body says the music giant’s move to make more than 150,000 titles available has not been discussed with authors and may compete with sales

The trials of SBF and DJT: Trump isn’t clean on crypto but he did warn us about it

Two trials – and Michael Lewis’s new book on Sam Bankman-Fried – cast light on the everlasting nexus of power and greed

Authors shocked to find AI ripoffs of their books being sold on Amazon

Book spamming, sometimes with multiple bogus titles going online in one day, has hit writers like Rory Cellan-Jones

‘Biggest act of copyright theft in history’: thousands of Australian books allegedly used to train AI model

Booker prize winner Richard Flanagan among authors whose work has potentially been pirated by US-based Books3 dataset to train generative AI

‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech

In his new book, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home, he argues it’s now the ‘fiefdoms’ of tech firms that shape us

An AI Game of Thrones prequel? No wonder George RR Martin’s raining ice and fire on ChatGPT

Authors have entered a war over words with OpenAI for using their books as ‘training’ feedstock

Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill review – nowhere to hide

From stalkers to authoritarian states, the use and abuse of facial recognition tech

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson review – pillock, genius, or both?

The tech mogul is portrayed as a brutal visionary with father issues in this comprehensive biography

For Elon Musk, the personal is political – but his march to the right affects us all

Walter Isaacson’s biography of the Tesla, SpaceX and X owner shows insecurity and anger have driven him to extremes

Four large US publishers sue ‘shadow library’ for alleged copyright infringement

The publishers are claiming unspecified damages from the file-sharing Library Genesis, which they say has distributed files illegally

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson review – arrested development

Walter Isaacson’s insight-free doorstop makes at least one thing clear: the richest man in the world has a lot of growing up to do

Eight things we learned from the Elon Musk biography

Widespread access to world’s richest man allowed biographer Walter Isaacson to detail a number of illuminating anecdotes

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