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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

I bambini imparano le lingue con una frazione dei dati di cui l'IA ha bisogno. Gli scienziati vogliono capire perché.

Un bambino piccolo padroneggia la grammatica dopo aver sentito circa 10 milioni di parole. Un grande modello linguistico può consumarne 15 trilioni. Colmare questo divario potrebbe trasformare il modo in cui l'IA viene costruita.

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Policy

Chi possiede le parole che hanno addestrato l'IA? I tribunali stanno ancora cercando la risposta

Una sentenza da 1,5 miliardi di dollari contro Anthropic e una serie di cause non risolte mostrano quanto il diritto d'autore sia ancora lontano dal stare al passo con la tecnologia che sta trasformando l'editoria.

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Everyday AI

Gli sceneggiatori e registi di Hollywood si stanno addestrando per essere sostituiti dall'IA, e vengono pagati per farlo

Sceneggiatori e produttori pluripremiati stanno accettando lavori saltuari per insegnare ai sistemi di IA il loro mestiere, guadagnando tra 12 e 200 dollari all'ora, in quella che uno creativo ha descritto come "scavare la fossa della propria professione".

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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

Questo Font Rende le Pagine Web Illeggibili ai Scraper AI, ma Normali per gli Umani

Due designer hanno creato un carattere tipografico che sostituisce segretamente le parole nel codice che le aziende di IA raccolgono, mantenendo la pagina perfettamente leggibile per i lettori ordinari.

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AI Business

Un nuovo progetto vuole costruire dati di addestramento AI aperti e condivisi che chiunque possa ispezionare

OpenWALDO è un dataset crowdsourced che qualsiasi azienda potrebbe utilizzare come fondamento pulito e verificabile per addestrare modelli di IA. Al momento è ancora molto piccolo. L'idea dietro non lo è.

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Policy

Le aziende di AI potrebbero stare distruggendo libri rari per addestrare i loro modelli

I librai stanno lanciando l'allarme: le aziende di AI acquistano libri fisici, incluse copie rare e fuori catalogo, poi li distruggono per scansionare le pagine in modo economico e veloce.

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Robotics

Avatar Robotics raccoglie 6,5 milioni di dollari per inserire operatori umani all'interno di robot per magazzini

La startup di San Francisco utilizza lavoratori da remoto per controllare i suoi robot oggi, quindi addestra l'IA su ciò che fanno questi lavoratori in modo che le macchine possano gradualmente assumere il controllo.

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