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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

Les enfants apprennent le langage avec une fraction des données dont l'IA a besoin. Les scientifiques veulent savoir pourquoi.

Un enfant maîtrise la grammaire après avoir entendu environ 10 millions de mots. Un grand modèle de langage peut en consommer 15 billions. Combler cet écart pourrait transformer la façon dont l'IA est construite.

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Policy

Qui possède les mots qui ont entraîné l'IA ? Les tribunaux essaient toujours de le déterminer

Un jugement de 1,5 milliard de dollars contre Anthropic et une série de procès non résolus montrent à quel point le droit d'auteur est loin de rattraper la technologie qui façonne l'édition.

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Everyday AI

Les scénaristes et réalisateurs hollywoodiens forment l'IA pour les remplacer, et sont payés pour le faire

Des scénaristes et producteurs primés prennent des contrats ponctuels pour enseigner à des systèmes d'IA leur métier, gagnant entre 12 et 200 dollars de l'heure, ce qu'un créatif a décrit comme creuser la tombe de sa propre profession.

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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

Cette Police Rend les Pages Web Illisibles aux Scrapers IA, mais Normale pour les Humains

Deux designers ont créé une typographie qui remplace secrètement des mots dans le code que collectent les entreprises d'IA, tout en gardant la page parfaitement lisible pour les lecteurs ordinaires.

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AI Business

Un nouveau projet veut construire des données d'entraînement IA ouvertes et partagées que chacun peut examiner

OpenWALDO est un ensemble de données collaboratif que n'importe quelle entreprise pourrait utiliser comme base propre et vérifiable pour l'entraînement de modèles IA. Pour le moment, il est minuscule. L'idée derrière cela ne l'est pas.

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Policy

Les entreprises d'IA détruisent peut-être des livres rares pour entraîner leurs modèles

Les libraires tirent la sonnette d'alarme : les entreprises d'IA achètent des livres physiques, y compris des exemplaires rares et épuisés, puis les déchirent pour numériser rapidement et à bas coût les pages.

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Robotics

Avatar Robotics lève 6,5 millions de dollars pour placer des opérateurs humains dans des robots d'entrepôt

La startup de San Francisco utilise des travailleurs à distance pour contrôler ses robots aujourd'hui, puis entraîne l'IA sur les actions de ces travailleurs pour que les machines puissent progressivement prendre le relais.

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