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AI Business

Amazon Is Shutting Down Mechanical Turk, Its 21-Year-Old Human Task Platform

The crowdsourced work service that paid hundreds of thousands of workers pennies per task will close on 30 September 2026, leaving some full-time data workers scrambling.

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AI Business

EXL Buys AI Training Firm iMerit to Close the Gap Between AI Demos and Real Business Results

The New York services giant spent this month completing its purchase of iMerit, a company that prepares the data and human expertise AI models need before they can work reliably in hospitals, factories, and financial firms.

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Policy

He Scraped a Million Artists' Work for Fun. Now He's Helping Them Fight Back.

A student who downloaded Cara's entire image library and bragged about it online ended up regretting the stunt and building a protection tool with the platform's founder.

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AI Security

Lawsuit accuses xAI of training Grok on child sexual abuse images

A survivor filed a federal complaint this week alleging that xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot, used images of her abuse to train its AI models. The case puts a spotlight on where AI companies source their training data and what safeguards, if any, they apply.

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Gaming

Amazon and Twitch Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over Using Streamers' Videos to Train AI

A Connecticut streamer is leading a lawsuit on behalf of millions of Twitch broadcasters who say Amazon fed their live videos into AI training systems without asking first.

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Explained

Kinder lernen Sprache mit einem Bruchteil der Daten, die KI benötigt. Wissenschaftler wollen wissen, warum.

Ein Kleinkind beherrscht die Grammatik nach etwa 10 Millionen gehörten Wörtern. Ein großes Sprachmodell kann 15 Billionen verbrauchen. Das Schließen dieser Lücke könnte die KI-Entwicklung grundlegend verändern.

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Policy

Wer besitzt die Wörter, mit denen KI trainiert wurde? Gerichte arbeiten das noch aus

Ein 1,5-Milliarden-Dollar-Urteil gegen Anthropic und eine Reihe ungelöster Klagen zeigen, wie weit das Urheberrecht hinter der Technologie zurückbleibt, die das Verlagswesen umgestaltet.

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Everyday AI

Hollywoodautoren und Regisseure trainieren KI, um sie zu ersetzen – und werden dafür bezahlt

Preisgekrönte Drehbuchautoren und Produzenten nehmen Gig-Jobs an, um KI-Systemen ihr Handwerk beizubringen, und verdienen dabei zwischen 12 und 200 Dollar pro Stunde – was einer Kreativer als das Schaufeln des eigenen beruflichen Grabes beschrieb.

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AI Business

AI Training Data Startup Micro1 Hit $500 Million Gross Run Rate in Eight Months

Demand for human-verified AI training data is minting fast-growing startups. Micro1's revenue explosion shows the market is big enough for several players, and the ethical debates are heating up too.

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Policy

Google bought Spirit Airlines' employee records. Workers are alarmed.

A bankruptcy auction last Friday handed Google a vast trove of Spirit Airlines' workplace data. No passenger details are included, but thousands of current and former employees want to know: how safe is their information?

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Policy

AI firms are quietly buying up secondhand books by the thousands. Some are being destroyed to train chatbots.

A US court ruling cleared Anthropic to use purchased books for AI training. Now booksellers report a strange surge in sales of obscure titles, and court documents reveal a project with a goal to 'destructively scan all the books in the world'.

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AI Security

Diese Schriftart macht Webseiten für KI-Scraper unleserlich, aber für Menschen normal

Zwei Designer haben eine Schriftart entwickelt, die Wörter in dem Code, den KI-Unternehmen sammeln, heimlich austauscht, während die Seite für normale Leser perfekt lesbar bleibt.

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AI Business

Ein neues Projekt will offene, gemeinsam genutzte KI-Trainingsdaten aufbauen, die jeder überprüfen kann

OpenWALDO ist ein von der Gemeinschaft erstellter Datensatz, den jedes Unternehmen als saubere, überprüfbare Grundlage zum Trainieren von KI-Modellen nutzen könnte. Derzeit ist er noch klein. Die dahinter stehende Idee ist es nicht.

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Policy

KI-Unternehmen könnten seltene Bücher zerstören, um ihre Modelle zu trainieren

Buchhändler schlagen Alarm, dass KI-Firmen physische Bücher kaufen, auch seltene und vergriffene Exemplare, diese dann zerkleinern, um die Seiten schnell und kostengünstig einzuscannen.

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Robotics

Avatar Robotics sammelt 6,5 Millionen Dollar ein, um menschliche Bediener in Lagerroboter zu integrieren

Das San Francisco Startup nutzt derzeit Fernarbeitskräfte zur Steuerung seiner Roboter und trainiert dann KI-Systeme auf deren Handlungen, damit die Maschinen schrittweise autonomer werden können.

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