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Why offline bookstores are reviving in an era of less reading
Americans are reading less, but bookstores in the United States are reviving, Axios reported. Barnes & Noble and independent stores, once threatened by Amazon’s rise and Borders’ collapse, are opening new outlets and growing sales. Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt says a turnaround is underway, while the American Booksellers Association cites a 70 percent rise in bookstores from 2021 to 2025. The sector faces pressure from AI summaries and social media, but store operators say trends are shifting.
AI & Enterprise
Elon Musk scores 992, Tim Cook 986 in service scoring AI recognition of famous names
A web service called In The Weights has been launched to compare how strongly different generative AI models have learned specific people’s names. It assigns a “strength score” by asking each model who a person is and aggregating up to 10 candidate results with brief descriptions and confidence levels. Examples showed Elon Musk at 992 and Apple CEO Tim Cook at 986. The service also flags possible hallucinations and misidentifications.
AI & Enterprise
OpenAI acquires voice cloning startup Weights
OpenAI has acquired Weights.gg, a startup that provided an AI voice-cloning tool, the New York Times reported. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but OpenAI was reported to have bought Weights’ small staff team and its intellectual property. Weights announced in March that it would shut down its service. It hosted shared AI algorithms for voice cloning, including models of celebrities and politicians.
