Amazon buys large quantities of printed books, scans them as AI training data, and destroys them in the process.

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OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease for an 8-gigawatt data center in Ohio. Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105 billion for the residual value of the facilities and becomes the exclusive chip supplier. According to the Wall Street Journal, nine tech companies now hold around $3 trillion in AI commitments that don't appear on any balance sheet.

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AI production companies like Promise are setting up shop around Hollywood's historic studios, using real-time backgrounds and other AI tools to cut film costs. Netflix already uses AI in 300 of its 1,000 titles, and the startup Higgsfield now carries a $5.4 billion valuation. What was once a tech demo has grown into its own industry, complete with valuations, job titles, and fights over who gets a cut.

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