Before AI can learn from old books, someone has to scan them. For millions of physical copies, that has meant cutting off the ...

Sebatian Mallaby is an accomplished biographer whose most recent work, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, traces the entwined journey of the most ...

Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

What we know so far: A market built for libraries and booksellers is now feeding AI training, as companies seek large volumes of printed books that predate the generative AI boom. ISBNdb, which says ...

Big booksellers are taking different approaches to dealing with the deluge of titles generated by artificial intelligence.

Inside the surprising RAGBRAI-inspired story of an Iowa mystery that led to the state's true center ― and one farm family's ...

Brex reports on the 25 books most purchased by founders in the first half of 2026, highlighting a shift towards biographies ...

The Andromeda Strain, Neuromancer, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress are all among the best sci-fi thriller books ever written ...

Studies published in prestigious academic journals receive more attention from scholars and media outlets, shaping public discourse and potentially accelerating academic careers. While the path to ...

More U.S. children have been drowning in recent years. Child drowning deaths rose from about 750 in 2019 to more than 860 in 2024, the most recent year for which complete data is available.

From friendship in a world of chatbots to what it means to be alive, this month’s new popular science books are asking some big questions. Liz Else rounds up the ones she’s most looking forward to ...

From reading encyclopaedias in a Karnataka village to leading Pixxel, Awais Ahmed’s journey shows how curiosity turned into innovation. The space startup now works with NASA, has global investors, and ...