AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoBooks Under Review: Schools are reconsidering David Walliams’s children’s books after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced; Walliams denies the claims, and public libraries are divided on whether to remove his titles. AI and Literature: A report questions the cost of using books to train AI, saying Anthropic’s Project Panama scanned and destroyed physical copies. Separately, the Caine Prize upheld Simbarashe Kundizeza’s win after finding no evidence his story was AI-generated. Booker Prize: M. John Harrison, 81, became the oldest winner in the prize’s history with The End of Everything—and the first science-fiction author to take the award. Publishing Moves: Lena McCauley has joined Macmillan Children’s Books as fiction publishing director.
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