{
  "id": 1729909,
  "title": "Amazon is buying rare books and destroying them to train its AI models",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/amazon-is-buying-rare-books-and-destroying-them-to-train-its-ai-models",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-18T14:20:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Quartz",
    "slug": "quartz",
    "url": "https://qz.com/amazon-rare-books-destroying-ai-training-data-081826"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where workers cut spines off books to scan them",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "AppleInsider",
        "title": "Amazon joins the list of companies destroying rare books to feed to the AI machine",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/amazon-joins-the-list-of-companies-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-to",
        "published": "2026-08-17T20:15:45.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
}