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Weekly News Digest
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December 17, 2024 — 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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WIRED Reports on Harvard University Releasing an AI Training Set of Public-Domain Books
Kate Knibbs writes the following in “Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft” for WIRED:Harvard University [is] releasing a high-quality dataset of nearly 1 million public-domain books that could be used by anyone to train large language models and other AI tools. The dataset was created by Harvard’s newly formed Institutional Data Initiative with funding from both Microsoft and OpenAI. It contains books scanned as part of the Google Books project that are no longer protected by copyright. For more information, read the article.
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