There were two major stories this week that seem on the surface to have little to do with one another. The first is one you may have come across: Open AI launched Sora 2, their next generation video creation tool that promises to revolutionize the lifelike nature of how moving pictures can be created instantly. The second story is one you may have missed. It’s all about the famously reclusive novelist Cormac McCarthy and his vast collection of over 20,000 annotated books.

For as long as AI ha...