Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

In headline after headline this year, American book publishers have appeared to be fighting back against generative AI, from suing Google for copyright infringement to…

Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement |

Some authors hoping to receive their share of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement said they received surprising emails this week — emails informing them that…

Meta signs commercial AI data agreements with publishers to offer real-time news on Meta AI |

7:27 AM PST · December 5, 2025 Meta has signed commercial AI data agreements with news publishers to offer real-time global, entertainment, and breaking news…

Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines |

Oracle and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS, enabling customers to now run Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle…

Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI |

In Brief Posted: 1:51 PM PDT · June 28, 2025 An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and…