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Japanese secondhand bookstores are reporting a fivefold surge in sales as bulk buyers purchase entire stock loads, in some cases tens of tons at once. One order of around 50 tons was shipped to the United States, and store owners suspect many large purchases end up in overseas facilities where books are scanned to train artificial intelligence models and then destroyed. The trend has raised concern among booksellers about losing rare volumes and the fate of the books themselves.

Reports suggest Apple is looking at the rapidly expanding fitness tracker segment, a move analysts say could influence the outlook for AAPL stock. The wearable fitness market has been growing quickly, and Apple already competes in adjacent territory with the Apple Watch. Investors are watching whether a deeper push into dedicated fitness tracking could open a new revenue stream, though details on timing or products remain unspecified.

Bank of America Corp DE has disclosed a new position worth $9.88 million in Disc Medicine, Inc., the biotech company traded under the ticker IRON. The filing reveals the bank took a fresh stake in the clinical-stage firm, whose stock is often followed by institutional investors in the biotechnology sector.