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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Children learn language on a fraction of the data AI needs. Scientists want to know why.
A toddler masters grammar after hearing roughly 10 million words. A large language model may consume 15 trillion. Closing that gap could reshape how AI is built.
Who owns the words that trained AI? Courts are still figuring it out
A $1.5 billion ruling against Anthropic and a string of unresolved lawsuits show just how far copyright law is from catching up with the technology reshaping publishing.
Hollywood writers and directors are training AI to replace them, and getting paid to do it
Award-winning screenwriters and producers are taking gig work teaching AI systems their craft, earning between $12 and $200 an hour, in what one creative called digging the grave of their own profession.
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.
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?
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'.
This Font Makes Webpages Unreadable to AI Scrapers, but Normal for Humans
Two designers have built a typeface that secretly swaps words in the code AI companies collect, while leaving the page looking perfectly normal to ordinary readers.
A new project wants to build open, shared AI training data that anyone can inspect
OpenWALDO is a crowd-sourced dataset that any company could use as a clean, auditable foundation for training AI models. Right now it is tiny. The idea behind it is not.
AI Companies May Be Destroying Rare Books to Train Their Models
Booksellers are raising the alarm that AI firms are buying up physical books, including rare and out-of-print copies, then shredding them to scan the pages cheaply and fast.
Avatar Robotics raises $6.5 million to put human operators inside warehouse robots
The San Francisco startup uses remote workers to control its robots today, then trains AI on what those workers do so the machines can gradually take over.