AI News — nullbot https://www.nullbot.ai/en/actu/ nullbot's AI newsroom: models, business, regulation, infrastructure and impact — international edition and national editions. en Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:16:56 GMT The strangest orders in the book trade: why AI firms are buying up Britain's secondhand shelveshttps://www.nullbot.ai/en/actu/uk-booksellers-ai-training-data-bulk-orders/https://www.nullbot.ai/en/actu/uk-booksellers-ai-training-data-bulk-orders/Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:10:00 GMTSociety & impactBooksellers from Northumberland to Galway report bulk orders with no theme, no haggling and opaque buyers, shipped to freight warehouses near Heathrow. The suspicion is that the books are not being read but scanned — and a 2025 US court ruling explains why that has become a business. An 11.5 billion dollar quarter, and a toggle buried in Twitch settings: the two halves of the AI economyhttps://www.nullbot.ai/en/actu/anthropic-revenue-twitch-opt-out-ai-economy/https://www.nullbot.ai/en/actu/anthropic-revenue-twitch-opt-out-ai-economy/Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMTBusiness & marketsAnthropic's revenue rose more than fourteenfold year on year ahead of a possible autumn IPO, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. In the same week, Twitch quietly gave streamers a switch to stop Amazon training on their content — on by default until someone noticed. The money and the raw material are moving on the same clock. Watermarking arrives in text: how AI learned to sign its own writinghttps://www.nullbot.ai/en/actu/ai-watermarking-becomes-the-default-eu-ai-act/https://www.nullbot.ai/en/actu/ai-watermarking-becomes-the-default-eu-ai-act/Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:20:00 GMTPolicy & regulationThe EU AI Act's transparency code took effect on 2 August, and the industry moved within days. Anthropic now watermarks every text Claude produces; Google made its visible watermark optional on Gemini. Two opposite gestures, one shift: the mark is leaving the image and entering the sentence.