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The U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books that promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from its library. A ...

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Academic publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F) has announced plans to use AI translation tools to publish books “that would otherwise be unavailable to English-language readers”. Last year ...

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