A Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks

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A new analysis of creative and media employment in the US shows a loss of 200,000 jobs since the release of ChatGPT in 2022.

All of the tech industry's major social media sites are refusing to run ads promoting a documentary critical of Elon Musk.

On a remote island in French Polynesia, the beloved writer came eye-to-eye with a tohorā.

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In 1968, the BBC broadcast extracts from JRR Tolkien's last ever recorded interview, 31 years after The Hobbit was published. In 2019, the full video was unearthed from the archive.

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Proprietors explain why more independent bookshops are springing up in our towns and cities.

Whether it’s while waiting for the train or chilling solo at a cafe, a tiny nation in Southeast Asia is nudging its people toward an increasingly elusive habit: reading.

A wave of "dopamine sites" are designed to spark the pleasure centers in your lizard brain by simulating shopping and ordering food.

While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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AI's wide proliferation shares some striking similarities with the ways viruses spread, as an international team of researchers argue.

Hidden in the pages of medieval manuscripts, researchers have found DNA traces of a deadly sheep virus dating back thousands of years.

Controversy is swirling around Rachel Cusk's new novel and its movie-star protagonist named "M". Why the fuss – and could the character be based on Natalie Portman?

Whether it is viral novels or emerging subgenres, BookTok is influencing people's reading habits.

A spate of serious safety incidents have increased fears about the power and impenetrability of the most advanced models

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An entire island thickly covered in mature trees seemingly appeared out of thin air in a Canadian lake, before disappearing again.

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Bill Gates warned on Wednesday that AI could cost millions their jobs and help create a devastating 'bioterrorism weapon' capable of threatening humanity.

For Petit Bois, the artist combined oil pastels and collage to capture the personal and poetic experience of exploring the forest.

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A medieval prayer book has been transferred to the University of Nottingham, making it available to researchers for the first time in almost 800 years.

For some mainlanders, Hong Kong's independent bookstores are a window into a different, freer world.

UK anthology inspired by question: ‘Where are our black and Asian nature writers?’ has boosted interest in genre

Trained fighter and author Carla Hoch breaks down what makes a character truly dangerous and helps us build our own dangerous characters.

Anthropics said it will watermark text generated by its Claude AI chatbot, sending people who wanted to sneakily use the tech into meltdown.

Paper mill activity has exploded in recent years, polluting the scientific ecosystem with falsified data and compromising medical research

Nicholas Johnston, the publisher of the news site Axios, posted an article extolling using an AI to help you read.

Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’