Anthropic Destroyed Millions of Books to Train Claude

Signal vs Noise: Jackson Mikalic, Michael Tanguma, Liam Nelson, and Brian Cubellis put four viral headlines on the shot clock, sparring over Anthropic slicing millions of print books from their bindings to train Claude, grocery prices climbing 33% since 2019 in the biggest jump in 50 years, big companies hiring again for AI-native skills after October's largest layoff month in over two decades, and Franklin Templeton calling agentic AI the killer use case for crypto.

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02:17 - Topic 1 - Anthropic Destroyed Millions of Books to Train Claude 08:39 - Topic 2 - Grocery Prices Post Their Biggest Jump in 50 Years 15:11 - Topic 3 - Big Companies Hiring Again for AI-Native Skills 22:37 - Topic 4 - Is Agentic AI Crypto's Killer Use Case? 27:51 - Topic 5 - Lightning Round: Signals of the Week