Plus, numbers on trad vs. Indie publishing, OpenAI's hesitancy to release a new version of ChatGPT after Fable's cancellation, and an hour long zeitgeist session of vigilante justice. This is Author Update.

Plus, the US government bans Anthropic's Fable 5, and we talk the unrest in the UK.

Plus, tech news on Meta and Anthropic, and we go over the fun in each country's culture.

Plus, declining Pride month sales, Audible fires back at Spotify, and exactly what is afflicting Gen Z men?

Plus, Amazon debuts a new paper option for paper books, and Thomas unpacks the pope's latest encyclical and how it relates to AI.

Plus trad publishing numbers, AI news out the whazoo and the zeitgeist on baby names.

Plus NewsCorps's new business model, ChatGPT's religious bias, and the zeitgeist take on Christopher Nolan's Odyssey.

Plus the numbers on AI slop in the Amazon market, a whole new set of Author Alerts and a lengthy zeitgeist segment on the nationalism vs. globalism movements across the world.