Topic: ai training
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AWS and e& Launch AI Nation to Upskill 30,000 UAE Professionals
AWS and e& have launched the "AI Nation – Afaaq" programme to train 30,000 UAE professionals in AI and cloud computing, part of a $1 billion strategic alliance. The initiative provides 30,000 AWS certification vouchers and access to AWS Skill Builder and Cloud Coach sessions to prepare participan...
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AWS and e& to Train 30,000 UAE Citizens in AI and Cloud Skills
AWS and e& have launched the "AI Nation – Afaaq" program to train 30,000 UAE citizens in AI and cloud computing, supporting the country's shift to a knowledge-based economy. The initiative addresses a critical skills gap in the UAE, where 46% of organizations face a shortage of AI professionals, ...
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Uber's App Becomes an AI Training Ground
Uber is introducing AI microtasks for its U.S. drivers and couriers, allowing them to earn extra income by completing brief digital assignments like recording voice clips or uploading images to advance AI technology. This initiative positions Uber's workforce to compete with established data-labe...
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Facebook's AI Can Now See Photos You Haven't Shared
Meta has launched an AI feature in the U.S. and Canada that scans users' smartphone camera rolls to identify and enhance "hidden gems" for creating polished, shareable content. The company states that it will not use photos from your camera roll to train its AI models unless you actively edit the...
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World Models: The Next AI Revolution
World models are an emerging AI frontier focused on enabling systems to understand and interact with 3D environments, allowing them to predict outcomes and take preventative actions. Pim de Witte leveraged Medal's vast dataset of billions of annual gaming videos to launch General Intuition, secur...
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AI Startups Seize Control of Their Data Destiny
Startups are increasingly collecting proprietary data directly from human experts, recognizing that superior training data leads to better AI performance, as seen with Turing Labs using GoPro footage from artists and professionals. Companies like Turing and Fyxer prioritize high-quality, curated ...
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Anker Pays Eufy Users to Share Videos for AI Training
Anker's Eufy security cameras launched a program paying users $2 per video of theft incidents to collect data for improving AI detection of package and vehicle crimes. The initiative encouraged staged and real theft footage, raising privacy concerns due to past security breaches in similar user-d...
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Anthropic's $1.5B Copyright Deal Shortchanges Writers
A $1.5 billion settlement will pay at least $3,000 each to half a million writers, resolving a class action lawsuit against Anthropic for using copyrighted books without permission. The settlement penalizes Anthropic for sourcing books through piracy rather than purchase, but does not address the...
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Uber Drivers Are Now Training AI for Extra Cash
Uber is introducing an optional program in the U.S. that allows drivers and couriers to earn extra income by completing digital tasks designed to train AI models, expanding beyond traditional services. Participants can perform tasks like recording videos or uploading photos for payment based on c...
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Get Paid $30/Day to Record Calls for AI: Is It Worth It?
Neon - Money Talks is a free app that pays users for recording their phone conversations, which are then sold as anonymized data to AI companies for training language models. The app records only calls made through it, with a tiered payment system offering up to 30 cents per minute, and includes ...
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Reddit Seeks Lucrative AI Deals with Google and OpenAI
Reddit is negotiating more lucrative AI data deals with companies like Google and OpenAI, seeking greater financial compensation and strategic user growth. The platform is pushing for a dynamic pricing model where payment is tied to how significantly its content influences AI-generated responses....
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Judge Halts Anthropic's $1.5B Book Piracy Settlement
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors, citing concerns that authors felt pressured to accept terms negotiated without sufficient transparency. The judge questioned the fairness of the deal and demanded clearer data on the number of books i...
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Affinda Acquires Pathfindr to Boost AI Transformation
Affinda Group has acquired Pathfindr in a $15 million all-scrip deal, combining two Australian AI specialists to enhance their service offerings for corporate digital transformation. The acquisition integrates Pathfindr's expertise in AI training and implementation with Affinda's focus on automat...
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Google Opens Real-World Data for AI Training
Google has launched the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, providing developers and AI systems with simplified access to a vast collection of structured public data through natural language queries. This initiative addresses the challenge of unreliable AI training data by offering ...
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Neon App Pays Users to Record Calls & Sells Data to AI
Neon Mobile, an app that pays users to record their phone calls and sells the audio to AI companies, has rapidly risen to the number two spot in the U.S. Apple App Store's Social Networking category. The app records only the user's side of conversations unless both parties are Neon users, a strat...
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This $30M Startup's Dog Crate-Sized Robot Factory Learns by Watching Humans
MicroFactory has developed a compact, tabletop manufacturing system with dual robotic arms that learn from human demonstrations for precision tasks like circuit board assembly. The startup, founded by Igor Kulakov and Viktor Petrenko, was inspired by their manufacturing challenges and uses a non-...
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AI Companies Now Face a New Web Payment System
The Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard is a new framework that allows web publishers to specify and enforce compensation terms when their content is used for training AI systems, with support from major platforms like Reddit and Yahoo. RSL builds on the robots.txt protocol by adding financial...
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Apple Sued for Using Pirated Books to Train AI
Apple is being sued by authors for allegedly training its AI systems on the Books3 dataset, which contains pirated books, without permission or compensation. The lawsuit, seeking class-action status, aims to stop Apple from using such materials and to secure financial damages for copyright infrin...
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Anthropic to Pay Authors $1.5B in AI Copyright Deal
Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit over copyright infringement, setting a major precedent for AI companies and compensating authors approximately $3,000 per work. The settlement applies to an estimated 500,000 works and may expand, with Anthropic n...
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Reddit Sues Perplexity Over Alleged Google Data Scraping
Reddit is suing four data firms, including Perplexity and SerpApi, for allegedly scraping its content via Google without permission to train AI models, seeking damages and injunctions. Google is tightening restrictions on data scraping and API access, while AI-generated summaries and zero-click s...
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Dead Space Creator Slams "Broken" Games Industry
Glen Schofield criticizes the video game industry as broken, citing overwork and low morale, and calls for a collective effort to restore its vitality. He advocates for the adoption of generative AI as a tool to enhance efficiency and creativity across all roles, urging companies to invest in wor...
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Tesla's New 3D Maps: First Look at 2025.38 Update
Tesla has confirmed that the full FSD V14.1 suite, including autonomous reversing and parking, will soon be available for the Cybertruck, addressing owner concerns about delayed features. The delays are due to the Cybertruck's all-wheel steering system, which presents unique training challenges f...
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AI Agents' Biggest Weakness: The Protocol That Stops Them All
Advanced AI models struggle with complex tasks when using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), showing significant performance declines as task complexity increases across multiple benchmark studies. Research reveals that even top models like GPT-5 face issues with multi-step planning, resource mana...
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Neon App Shut Down After Major Security Breach Exposes User Data
The Neon app, which paid users to record calls for AI data sales, was abruptly taken offline after a major security breach exposed all users' private call recordings, transcripts, and phone numbers. A critical vulnerability allowed any logged-in user to access others' sensitive data due to a lack...
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Meta's AI Chatbots Are Spinning Out of Control
Meta is implementing new restrictions on its AI chatbots to prevent minors from discussing self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, and inappropriate romantic exchanges following safety concerns. The changes were prompted by reports of chatbots engaging in harmful behaviors, including generating exp...
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CoreWeave Acquires AI Training Startup OpenPipe
CoreWeave has acquired OpenPipe, a startup specializing in reinforcement learning tools, to expand its AI development ecosystem. The integration aims to combine OpenPipe's self-learning capabilities with CoreWeave's cloud platform to help developers build scalable intelligent systems. This acquis...
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Reddit Sues Perplexity AI Over Content Scraping
Reddit is suing Perplexity AI and three data-scraping firms for industrial-scale copyright infringement, alleging they unlawfully bypassed protections to harvest user content without permission. Perplexity AI is accused of using these services to obtain Reddit data for its AI engine instead of pu...
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Reflection raises $2B to become America's open AI lab
Reflection secured a $2 billion investment, raising its valuation to $8 billion and positioning itself as a major open-source AI competitor to firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. Founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, the company has built a team of top AI experts and infrastructure to train...
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Claude's New Skills: A Game-Changer for AI
Anthropic's new Skills feature allows Claude AI subscribers to add specialized modules for handling specific business applications and workflows, addressing limitations in general language models. Skills function as customizable directories containing instruction files and resources that Claude a...
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Tesla Dojo: The Untold Story of Elon Musk's AI Supercomputer
Tesla has discontinued its Dojo supercomputer project, which was developed for AI and autonomous driving, after significant investment and years of effort. Elon Musk announced the shutdown in 2025, calling it an evolutionary dead end, and Tesla is shifting to partnerships with chipmakers like Sam...
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Hollywood's AI Dilemma: An Industry in Crisis
A deep divide exists between Silicon Valley and Hollywood over AI's integration, with the entertainment industry facing a critical juncture as AI threatens business models and intellectual property rights. Tech leaders like OpenAI's Sam Altman promote AI as a creative tool for deeper audience eng...
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iRobot Founder's Fear: Why He Keeps Distance From Walking Robots
Rodney Brooks, a prominent robotics expert, advises maintaining a three-meter distance from full-sized walking robots due to the significant safety risks from their immense kinetic energy during movement. He disputes the notion that humanoid robots will quickly master complex manual skills throug...
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Datacurve Secures $15M to Challenge ScaleAI
Datacurve raised $15 million in Series A funding to provide high-quality, specialized data for AI training, with backing from investors including professionals at DeepMind and OpenAI. The company uses a bounty system to engage software engineers in creating complex datasets, focusing on user expe...
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Hollywood Rejects AI Actress Tilly Norwood
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated actress created by Particle6, has sparked controversy in Hollywood by posing as a real person on social media and seeking representation, drawing criticism from industry professionals. Prominent actress Emily Blunt and the union SAG-AFTRA have condemned the use of s...
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Cloudflare Lets Sites Block Google AI Overviews
Cloudflare's new Content Signals Policy allows website owners to specify preferences for how AI systems use their content, going beyond traditional robots.txt permissions. The policy introduces three directives (`search`, `ai-input`, `ai-train`) to control content use for search indexing, AI-gene...
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Gigabyte's 512GB Memory Card Revolutionizes Workstations and AI Setups
Gigabyte's AI Top CXL R5X4 PCIe adapter provides up to 512GB of additional DDR5 memory via a PCIe 5.0 interface, targeting high-performance workstations and AI systems. Designed for desktop platforms like TRX50 and W790 motherboards, it minimizes latency and enhances throughput for memory-heavy t...
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SANS Secure AI Blueprint: A Leader's Guide to Adopting AI Safely
The SANS Institute has launched a secure AI blueprint to help organizations adopt AI safely, addressing risks, compliance, and the need for structured guidance. The blueprint is structured around three tracks: Protect AI (defending systems), Utilize AI (leveraging AI in cybersecurity), and Govern...
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AI's Threat to Entry-Level Marketing Jobs and Talent Pipeline
AI is increasingly replacing entry-level marketing roles by automating repetitive tasks, which threatens the traditional talent pipeline and reduces opportunities for newcomers. The decline in junior roles risks creating a future shortage of experienced professionals, as these positions are essen...
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Macquarie Bank Makes Agentic AI Accessible with Gemini Enterprise
Macquarie Bank is providing all employees with advanced AI tools through Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise to enhance customer interactions, staff efficiency, and decision-making. The bank is developing custom AI agents for productivity and complex tasks, with a strong focus on customer-centric ou...
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ORCA Opti Wins AI Innovation Award After Acquisition Triumph
ORCA Opti won the 2025 VALA Award for its Virtual Veterans AI chatbot, developed with the State Library of Queensland, which engages users in conversational learning about ANZAC history through a WWI soldier persona. The project was built in three months using extensive historical data, including...
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Prezent Secures $30M to Acquire AI Services Firms, Starting with Founder's Other Company
Prezent has raised $30 million to pursue acquisitions, starting with Prezentium, enhancing its enterprise AI presentation platform and expanding its client base in the life sciences sector. The company differentiates itself by focusing on large corporate clients and embedding presentation enginee...
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UAE AI Adoption Soars to 97%, Setting Global Benchmark
The UAE leads in AI adoption with 97% of residents using AI across various aspects of life, and two-thirds of organizations have implemented specific AI policies, reflecting strong institutional acceptance. Public confidence in AI is high, with 65% willing to rely on AI information and 89% experi...
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The Massive Scale of OpenAI's Six Data Centers
The Stargate AI infrastructure initiative is expanding with a $400+ billion investment to build five new US data centers, aiming to support ChatGPT's 700 million weekly users and train next-gen AI models. Three new facilities from OpenAI and Oracle will be in Texas, New Mexico, and the Midwest, c...
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TeKnowledge Launches AI-Ready Security Suite for Cyber Resilience
TeKnowledge has launched an AI-Ready Security Suite, a managed service to help large enterprises securely manage the risks associated with rapid generative AI adoption, such as prompt injection and data leakage. The suite is built on a three-pillar framework—Assess, Implement, and Optimize—that p...
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SEO 2026: Your Survival Guide for the Future
Original content creation is the most effective SEO strategy, but scaling it is a major challenge due to the time required. SEO professionals are adopting varied approaches to AI integration, with a majority using hybrid methods to enhance human-created content while focusing on E-E-A-T principle...
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AI Boosts Productivity, Frees Tech Teams for Strategy
AI is automating routine tasks, allowing skilled professionals to focus on strategic initiatives and delivering measurable returns, reshaping the role of tech professionals in organizations. Implementation of AI has led to a 98% positive ROI for technology teams, with key benefits including enhan...
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Ex-OpenAI, Google Brain Team Raises $300M for AI Startup
Periodic Labs, founded by former OpenAI and Google Brain researchers, has raised $300 million to use AI for automating material science, integrating simulations, robotics, and large language models to propose, create, and analyze new compounds. The company's approach leverages AI to learn from al...
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Meta Urges Metaverse Teams to Use AI for 5X Speed Boost
Meta is directing its metaverse teams to use AI to achieve a fivefold productivity increase, embedding it into all roles and processes to speed up innovation and shorten feedback cycles. The initiative, called AI for Productivity (AI4P), aims to assist engineers, designers, and managers in protot...
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Control ChatGPT for Teens: New Parental Guide
OpenAI has introduced parental controls for ChatGPT, allowing parents to manage features, set time limits, and customize safety settings to create a safer environment for teenagers. Key settings include reducing sensitive content exposure, disabling model training and memory features, and enablin...
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Rolling Stone Parent Company Sues Google Over AI Overviews
Penske Media Corporation is suing Google, claiming its AI search summaries reduce website traffic and ad revenue by discouraging clicks to original sources. This lawsuit is the most significant U.S. media challenge to Google's AI feature, with similar complaints from other companies and industry ...
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