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Story summary
- Amazon scanned and destroyed about 1,000 rare books at its VGT3 warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, for AI training.
- Workers cut spines and digitized loose pages after scanning barcodes and ISBNs from the books.
- An Apple AirTag placed inside a volume tracked the shipment to the Nevada site.
- A court ruling in an Anthropic lawsuit held that digitizing and destroying physical books constitutes transformative use, not copyright infringement.
