Tag: books
‘The rocket ship keeps going off’: inside the Nvidia phenomenon with author Stephen Witt | Fortune
For employees at Nvidia, the chipmaker at the center of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, the financial incentives to retire are staggering, yet few...
Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson on how he learned to ‘just keep moving forward’ after his famous firing at 22 | Fortune
As CEO of The Atlantic, Nicholas Thompson oversees a venerable magazine that has recently returned to profitability after several years of false starts, adding...
Here’s What I’m Gifting the Book Lovers in My Life This Year
I love losing myself in a good book, and I'm not the only one. Finding great gifts for book lovers isn't just about testing...
Adam Johnson’s ‘The Wayfinder’ charts an Indigenous people before colonial disruption | Houston Public Media
Writer Adam Johnson is coming to Houston for an event Oct. 15 at the Wortham Center as a part of Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown...
Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World
And that requires swallowing our pride here, right? Like we actually need to learn from China, even though US politicians don’t want to admit...
Meet the Kindle Kids Will Want Most
When you set up kids mode, you'll be prompted to put in your child's name and their birthday, which allows Amazon to recommend books...
Book authors hail ‘historic settlement’ as Anthropic dodges trial on how it actually acquired millions of copyrighted works to ingest
A group of book authors has reached a settlement agreement with artificial intelligence company Anthropic after suing the chatbot maker for copyright infringement.
Both sides...
Libby’s library app adds an AI discovery feature, and not everyone is thrilled | TechCrunch
Library e-book and audiobook app Libby is adding AI, much to the disappointment of some readers and librarians, who would prefer not to have...
Rebecca Kuang, with 6 bestsellers before age 30, returns to the fantasy genre with ‘Katabasis’
For Rebecca F. Kuang, who has had six bestsellers before the age of 30, an eternal afterlife of leisure scares her more than the...
The scandalous literary classic we’ve never stopped arguing about
When Lolita first appeared 70 years ago, in 1955, it was so controversial that no American publisher was willing to touch it. Today, Lolita...