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How students are reconnecting with the craft of writing ► The Educator Australia ► 7/28/25

How AI is taking over your government ► The Lever ► 7/28/25

What happened when I asked AI to do my job ► The Independent ► 7/27/25

Meet the New Haven teen who has distributed hundreds of free books citywide ► New Canaan Advertiser ► 7/27/25

The AI explosion means millions are paying more for electricity ► The Washington Post ► 7/27/25

Efforts to restrict or protect libraries both grew this year ► The 74 ► 7/27/25

More sex please, we’re bookish: the rise of the x-rated novel ► The Guardian ► 7/26/25

Local tech company’s AI agent “panics,” deletes production data, then hallucinates cover-up ► SFist ► 7/26/25

Fans say new romance bookstores and online groups are giving the genre some overdue respect ► Texarkana Gazette ► 7/26/25

Breaking the code: inside a hands-on reading foundations workshop ► Education Healthcare Public Services ► 7/26/25

An AI model in Vogue? The internet can’t believe it ► Images ► 7/26/25

Does this look like a real woman? AI Vogue model raises concerns about beauty standards ► BBC ► 7/26/25

First known choose-your-own-adventure book, co-written by a Maine author, getting new life ► Maine Public ► 7/25/25

Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors’ books to train AI models ► The Baltimore Banner ► 7/25/25

The real winners from Trump’s “AI action plan?” Tech companies ► The Guardian ► 7/25/25

The more advances AI models get, the better they are at deceiving us – they even know when they’re being tested ► Live Science ► 7/25/25

AI should help fund creative labor ► Project Syndicate ► 7/25/25

In amicus brief, literary groups register opposition to Iowa law ► Publishers Weekly ► 7/25/25

What’s a spredge? The latest booming trend in book design. ► The Washington Post ► 7/25/25

How a Gen Z publishing company is creating space for diverse voices ► WTTW ► 7/24/25

A tough sell: Fighting for space on the path to publication ► Books + Publishing ► 7/9/25

The Salt Path reveals an ugly truth about the publishing industry – and I should know ► The Standard ► 7/8/25

AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators ► The Guardian ► 7/8/25

Adobe faces backlash over Creative Cloud price hike & AI push ► 80LV ► 7/8/25

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot churns out antisemitic posts days after update ► NBC News ► 7/8/25

Can Cloudflare really block Google’s AI crawlers?; Knock it off, knockoffs ► Ad Exchanger ► 7/8/25

EU slaps Google with antitrust complaint over AI overviews ► CNET ► 7/7/25

No translation, no problem: The joys of reading a book containing multiple languages ► LitHub ► 7/7/25

“It feels an almost holy moment”: the beauty and magic of reading aloud to children ► The Guardian ► 7/7/25

Another swipe at the free press ► Editor & Publisher ► 7/7/25

Audiobook pros confirm the customer is always right ► Publishers Weekly ► 7/7/25

Unethical or inevitable? Artists questions where to draw the line on AI-generated art ► CBC ► 7/7/25

Relying too much on AI is backfiring for business ► Search Engine Journal ► 7/7/25

AI music is already here, but its lack of depth hits some sour notes ► Deadline ► 7/7/25

Experts say these 7 subtle habits reveal you’re leaning on ChatGPT more than you think ► VegOut ► 7/6/25

Companies that tried to save money with AI are now spending a fortune hiring people to fix its mistakes ► Futurism ► 7/6/25

The AI productivity paradox: Why more tools are making us less efficient ► Vocal Media ► 7/6/25

Trump is waging war against the media—and winning ► The Guardian ► 7/5/25

Hamilton libraries draw the line at AI-generated books to support human authors ► Complete AI Training ► 7/5/25

AI errors are creating new jobs for human experts ► DigWatch ► 7/5/25

AI “band” The Velvet Sundown officially confirm they’re AI – and a “provocation” ► Rolling Stone ► 7/5/25

Companies keep slashing jobs. How worried should workers be about AI replacing them? ► Los Angeles Times ► 7/5/25

How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing ► WUKY ► 7/5/25

“The damage is terrifying”: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel ► The Guardian ► 7/5/25

Bombshell research finds a staggering number of scientific papers were AI-generated ► Futurism ► 7/4/25

The best and worst romantasy tropes according to author and viral BookTokker Stacey McEwan ► ABC ► 7/4/25

I’m a teen writer – here’s how you can be one too ► The Teen Magazine ► 7/4/25

Urgent bid lodged with UK regulator to stop Google AI Overviews “stealing journalism” ► Press Gazette ► 7/4/25

The Velvet Sundown: Everything we know about the band accused of being AI ► The Independent ► 7/4/25

Large public libraries give young adults across U.S. access to banned books ► Ed Surge ► 7/3/25

Cloudflare is fighting to safeguard “the future of the web itself” – standing directly in the way of leading AI firms ► MSN ► 7/3/25

Denmark to pass law that lets citizens copyright their face and voice against AI deepfakes ► Design Boom ► 7/3/25

TN govt. saves school children from smut like Magic Tree House, Calvin & Hobbes, & A Light in the Attic ► Above the Law ► 7/3/25

Crunchyroll blames third-party vendor for AI subtitle mess ► Engadget ► 7/3/25

“I’m being paid to fix issues caused by AI” ► BBC ► 7/3/25

An indie band is blowing up on Spotify, but people think it’s AI ► NBC News ► 7/3/25

Nevada’s Talking Book Program provides free audiobooks to readers with vision or reading disabilities – without a catch ► Carson Now ► 7/3/25

We spent a month writing and reading in glass boxes. We read faster, wrote more – and inspired passersby ► The Conversation ► 7/3/25

New bookstore in Lakewood fanning the romantasy flames and extinguishing stigma ► The Land ► 7/3/25

Substack is where writers go to be weird ► Vulture ► 7/2/25

5 writing tips from Kurt Vonnegut that still hold up ► No Film School ► 7/2/25

The rise of performative reading: Why Gen Z may only be pretending to read those clever books ► The Week ► July 2025

“AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like”: audiobook actors grapple with the rise of robot narrators ► The Guardian ► 7/2/25

“A book group for people who don’t like book groups” Fairfax’s silent reading program offers unique reading community ► SA Messenger ► 7/2/25

Job-sharing in publishing could prevent “abundance of people in their 40s” leaving industry, say senior publicists ► The Bookseller ► 7/2/25

N. Va. Print publications evolve to survive in increasingly digital industry ► ARL Now ► 7/2/25

How reading romance novels can improve all types of relationships ► Allure ► 7/2/25

Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes ► Ars Technica ► 7/2/25

How to prove your writing isn’t AI-generated with Grammarly’s free new tool ► ZDNet ► 7/2/25

AI virtual personality YouTubers, or “VTubers,” are earning millions ► CNBC ► 7/2/25

Discover the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled at Family Day July 19 ► LOC Blogs ► 7/2/25

South Georgia librarian is fired over LGBTQ children’s book included in summer reading display ► WABE ► 7/2/25

These Fort Worth area moms make finding great books easy for parents ► Fort Worth Star-Telegram ► 7/2/25

LGBTQ book opt-out ruling triggers national response from parents, educators, advocates ► ABC News ► 7/2/25

“Writing is thinking”: Do students who use ChatGPT learn less? ► France24 ► 7/2/25

Something hilarious happens when potential customers see that a product has AI features ► Futurism ► 7/1/25

Cloudflare just changed how AI crawlers scrape the internet-at-large; permission-based approach makes way for a new business model ► BusinessWire ► 7/1/25

Millions of websites to get “game-changing” AI bot blocker ► BBC ► 7/1/25

Senate decides free rein for AI companies isn’t such a good thing ► The Register ► 7/1/25

Distrust in AI is on the rise – but along with healthy scepticism comes the risk of harm ► The Conversation ► 7/1/25

How to tell if the article you’re reading was written by AI ► Fast Company ► 7/1/25

Does AI limit our creativity? ► Knowledge at Wharton ► 7/1/25

X opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots ► The Verge ► 7/1/25

Libby Buck on writing like an art historian ► LitHub ► 7/1/25

Children should hear 21,000 words a day. A Birmingham literacy program is trying to make that happen ► AL ► 7/1/25

As reading scores decline, a study primed to help grinds to a halt ► The Harvard Gazette ► 7/1/25

A series of unfortunate salaries: Maris Kreizman on fighting the publishing industry’s elitism ► LitHub ► 7/1/25