{
  "id": 1829602,
  "title": "The facts about AI companies destroying books",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/the-facts-about-ai-companies-destroying-books",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-18T23:28:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7311779"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Anthropic bought millions of physical books to train its AI chatbot Claude. Here are the facts about the books that were ‘destructively scanned.’",
  "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."
}