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New Voices New Rooms kicked off the fall regional show season this week in Atlanta, attracting a record number of attendees to the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance’s collaborative conference. A half-century in, Kensington’s adaptability to industry trends—most recently, hybrid publishing and genre fiction—has helped it hold its ground as a family-owned press. In remarks made following a successful fiscal year, Robert Thomson, CEO of the usually Trump-friendly HarperCollins parent company News Corp, urged the president to reconsider his comments that characterized copyright as an obstacle to the rapid development of AI. Bloomsbury is in talks to license some of its books to tech companies for AI training, offering authors the choice to “opt-in”—and prompting rebuke from the U.K.’s Society of Authors, reports the Bookseller. Long Beach Public Library will open its digital collection to teens across the country as part of the Books Unbanned program, per the Long Beach Post. After three years of keeping its AI technology largely secret, OpenAI has open-sourced two of the models that power ChatGPT, reports the New York Times. The Library of Congress published an online Constitution missing clauses on unlawful detention and foreign bribes, allegedly due to a “coding error,” per Axios. The Netflix adaptation of S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed has found its star in English actor Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, reports Deadline. And to celebrate its one-year anniversary, the Open Book podcast called on some past guests to share the books that shaped them.