The book barbarians

The big story last month was the news that Anthropic has agreed to pay an estimated $1.5 billion to 500,000 authors for using their books for training its large language model AI. At least that is wha

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Legendary investor Warren Buffett is, as far as we know, not a regular reader of these pages. But in the news is word that he is following our advice and pulling out of stocks. His Berkshire Hathaway

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