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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

Los niños aprenden idiomas con una fracción de datos que necesita la IA. Los científicos quieren saber por qué.

Un niño pequeño domina la gramática tras escuchar aproximadamente 10 millones de palabras. Un modelo de lenguaje grande puede consumir 15 billones. Cerrar esa brecha podría transformar cómo se construye la IA.

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Policy

¿Quién es dueño de las palabras que entrenaron la IA? Los tribunales aún lo están resolviendo

Una sentencia de $1.5 mil millones contra Anthropic y una serie de demandas sin resolver muestran cuán lejos está el derecho de autor de mantenerse al día con la tecnología que está transformando la industria editorial.

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Everyday AI

Los escritores y directores de Hollywood están capacitando a la IA para reemplazarlos, y les pagan por hacerlo

Guionistas y productores galardonados están tomando trabajos por encargo enseñando a los sistemas de IA su oficio, ganando entre $12 y $200 por hora, en lo que un creativo describió como cavar la tumba de su propia profesión.

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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.

3 min read
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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

Esta tipografía hace que las páginas web sean ilegibles para los raspadores de IA, pero normales para los humanos

Dos diseñadores han creado una tipografía que cambia palabras en el código que recopilan las empresas de IA, mientras mantiene la página perfectamente legible para los lectores ordinarios.

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AI Business

Un nuevo proyecto quiere construir datos abiertos y compartidos para entrenar IA que cualquiera pueda inspeccionar

OpenWALDO es un conjunto de datos financiado por la comunidad que cualquier empresa podría usar como base limpia y auditable para entrenar modelos de IA. Por ahora es minúsculo. La idea detrás de él no lo es.

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Policy

Las Empresas de IA Podrían Estar Destruyendo Libros Raros para Entrenar Sus Modelos

Los libreros advierten que las empresas de IA compran libros físicos, incluidas copias raras y agotadas, para triturarlos y escanear las páginas de forma rápida y económica.

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Robotics

Avatar Robotics recauda $6.5 millones para poner operadores humanos dentro de robots de almacén

La startup de San Francisco utiliza trabajadores remotos para controlar sus robots hoy, y luego entrena IA en lo que hacen esos trabajadores para que las máquinas se hagan cargo gradualmente.

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