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TechCrunch 2 months ago 24 ● 7 sources
Amazon is buying rare books, cutting their spines, and scanning them to provide text for AI model training, based on tracking of a book sent to its Las Vegas facility. The report says the shipment arrived at facility VGT3 in Las Vegas. This shifts rare-book handling toward bulk digitization for AI training, rather than preservation or resale.
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25 October 2026
The biggest AI-adjacent story today isn’t a model release—it’s power. The U.S. military and NASA are pushing microreactors to keep critical systems alive when the grid fails, after Antares’ Mark-0 microreactor cleared a successful criticality test. The Department of Defense followed up with a $161 million award for the R1-S reactor to earn spacecraft flight certification, while Project Janus plans to fund 20 microreactors across Lower 48 bases through the early 2030s. The logic is simple: if your communications, sensors, or autonomy stack goes dark, the smartest software in the world can’t compensate.
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