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Copyright Lawsuit Against Google's Gemini AI

News Summary: Publishers Seek to Join Copyright Lawsuit against Google’s Gemini AI

AI lawsuits are in the news again. And it's not Anthropic this week, but the large ongoing lawsuit against Google's Gemini. It takes the form of a motion to intervene, as I believe it's called (you can read the motion in question here to fill yourselves in). The motion is brought by two major publishing groups, Cengage and Hachette. It requests, as I understand it, that the two publishing groups join the case brought by writers and illustrators in 2023 and currently before the Northern California judiciary, intervening as class representatives.
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HarperCollins France Adopts AI Translation

News Summary: HarperCollins France Adopts AI Translation; Manga Industry Turns to Machine Learning

The uncomfortable relationship between AI and translation has been in the news again this week. HarperCollins in France has hired the services of Fluent Planet to help it save money by reducing the labor-intensiveness of the translation process. Fluent Planet will, it seems, be using machine learning to achieve this. The reaction has been exactly what, in short, you would imagine.
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Kirkus Acquires AudioFile

News Summary: Kirkus Acquires AudioFile, New Leadership at Publishing Perspectives

Reviews are one of the most important factors in enhancing the visibility and appeal of our books. And while one side of the coin is acquiring the numbers of Amazon reviews necessary for whatever the algorithm has decided to do that morning, or meeting the requirements of the likes of BookBub, the other side is securing a few high-profile, highly respected reviews. And for that, writers turn to one source more than any other: Kirkus.
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Nebula Awards AI Policy

News Summary: Nebula Awards’ AI Policy Sparks Debate on Authorship and Process

The use of AI in competitions and beloved public literary events has become its own subgenre in a crowded news field. The two highest-profile instances have been the announcement by the Grammys that they would allow the use of AI in eligible tracks and albums and NaNoWriMo's statement that it would allow AI and criticizing those who would oppose such an approach.
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TikTok Secures Its US Future

News Summary: TikTok Secures Its US Future, Social Media Rules Shift for 2026

As I write, it is deep into the “off season” of the literary world, and news outlets in most places are slumbering in a post-Christmas haze. But not me (in part the result of finally recovering from a long bout of flu). Amid the midwinter quiet, I have dug my way to a couple of interesting stories about the shape that social media might take for us in 2026.
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