{
  "id": 1551350,
  "title": "AI Companies Are Buying—And Destroying—Antique Books. Here’s Why.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/ai-companies-are-buying-and-destroying-antique-books-heres-why",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-17T19:58:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Forbes",
    "slug": "forbes",
    "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/08/17/ai-companies-are-buying-and-destroying-antique-books-heres-why/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Millions of physical books are being scanned to train AI models. They’re then dumped in the trash.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}