Independent bookstores across America are making an unprecedented decision to remove the Harry Potter series from their ...

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A San Francisco bookstore said it was pulling author J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series because she was privately funding a ...

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Specifically, the paper estimates that Llama 3.1 70B has memorized 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book well enough to reproduce 50-token excerpts at least half the time.

A new study has found that Meta’s latest AI model, Llama 3.1, is copying parts of popular books including Harry Potter a lot more than expected. In fact, researchers say the AI has memorized ...

A softback of the first book and a hardback of the second, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, could fetch up to AU$12,500. Not quite as impressive, but still not to be sniffed at.

The first spell cast by Hermione Granger in the movies, Oculus Reparo, is used by Arthur and Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter books. Its purpose is simply to mend glasses.

Finally, if you start reading up on Harry Potter plot holes on fan forums, you’ll find that many of them revolve around time turners and the potion Felix Felicis — a.k.a. liquid luck.

February 14, 2025 at 7:00am GMT An artist has added a touch of magic to used tea bags by painting scenes inspired from Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings on them. Caroline West, 50, from ...