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AI Labs Are Hiring Improv Actors to Teach Models How Human Emotion Actually Works

AI companies are recruiting improv performers to help models better understand authentic human emotion, a development that could improve the dialogue and character tools authors use every day.

Mar 15, 2026

Your AI Is Getting a Moving Truck (And Some Platforms Are Changing the Locks)

Google and Apple are making it easier to carry your AI life between platforms, while Wikipedia and Reddit are drawing harder lines about where AI belongs at all.

Mar 27, 2026

Anthropic Sent Claude to Therapy and I Have So Many Questions

Anthropic hired an actual psychiatrist for its newest AI model, and the results are weirdly relatable.

Apr 11, 2026

The Anthropic Settlement Claims Deadline Is March 30. Here's How to Check If You're Owed Money.

If your books were used to train Anthropic's Claude AI, you may be entitled to roughly $3,000 per title from a $1.5 billion settlement, but you need to file your claim by March 30.

Feb 27, 2026

Bookwire Partners with ElevenLabs to Turn 1.5 Million Ebooks into AI Audiobooks

Ebook distributor Bookwire is partnering with ElevenLabs to offer AI-narrated audiobook production to its 3,500 publisher clients, potentially unlocking audio versions of titles that never had one.

Mar 9, 2026

The Authors Guild's 'Human Authored' Certification Is Now Open to All Authors. Will It Actually Matter?

The Authors Guild expanded its 'Human Authored' certification to all U.S.-published authors for $10 per title, but the program's binary framing may do more to stigmatize AI-assisted authors than to help readers.

Mar 4, 2026

The Uncomfortable History Lesson Every AI User Deserves

A new documentary traces generative AI's statistical foundations back to eugenics, and whether you agree with its conclusions or not, the questions it raises are worth sitting with.

Mar 22, 2026

Grammarly Pulled Its 'Expert Review' Feature After a Lawsuit Accused It of Impersonating Stephen King and Hundreds of Other Writers

A class action lawsuit alleges Grammarly used the names and likenesses of hundreds of authors, journalists, and editors to sell AI-generated writing feedback without their consent. The feature is now disabled.

Mar 13, 2026

10,000 Authors Published an Empty Book at London Book Fair to Protest UK AI Copyright Plans

Nearly 10,000 authors published a book of only their names at London Book Fair to protest a proposed UK copyright law. The protest isn't anti-AI. It's asking for something AI-positive authors should want too: consent.

Mar 10, 2026

The Government Is Trying to Kneecap the Company That Makes Claude, and You Should Be Paying Attention

The DOD designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk for pushing back on military use of Claude, and a federal judge just called it what it looks like. Retaliation.

Mar 25, 2026

The New Loyalty Test Is 'Prove You're Human' and I Hate Everything About It

Eight competing 'AI-free' certification labels, zero proof readers care, and a whole lot of hoops for authors who were already doing the work.

Apr 4, 2026

A Publisher Pulled a Book This Week. The Reason Should Worry You.

Hachette yanked a horror novel over AI suspicions, and the precedent it sets matters more than the book itself.

Mar 21, 2026

Supreme Court Won't Hear AI Copyright Case, Confirming That Fully AI-Generated Art Can't Be Copyrighted

The Supreme Court declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter, leaving intact lower court rulings that artwork created entirely by AI without human creative input cannot receive copyright protection.

Mar 3, 2026