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Weekly News Digest

May 22, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.

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AI Summer Reading List Published by Major News Outlets Highlights Nonexistent Books

Jason Koebler writes the following in “Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist” for 404 Media:

The Chicago Sun-Times newspaper’s ‘Best of Summer’ section … [which] contains a guide to summer reads that features real authors and fake books that they did not write[,] was partially generated by artificial intelligence, the person who generated it told 404 Media. … [M]any of the books on the list either do not exist or were written by other authors than the ones they are attributed to.

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