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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Flock Surveillance AI Built by Overseas Gig Workers
Flock's AI surveillance cameras, widely used by U.S. law enforcement, create a vast database of vehicle and pedestrian details, often accessed without a warrant. The company trains its algorithms using overseas gig workers, who review sensitive domestic footage, raising privacy and data security ...
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Google Denies Using Your Emails for AI Training: The Truth
Google has denied claims that it scans private Gmail messages to train its AI systems, clarifying that its smart features are separate from AI model training and no policy changes have authorized such data usage. A security firm initially reported that Google was using email content for AI traini...
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Google Confirms It's Not Training AI on Your Gmail
Google has officially denied using Gmail emails to train its Gemini AI model, stating that user privacy is protected and no account settings have been changed to allow such data usage. Viral social media posts incorrectly claimed that users must disable Gmail's Smart Features to prevent data harv...
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Suno AI raises $200M at $2.45B valuation amid legal battles
Suno AI secured $200 million in Series C funding, valuing the company at $2.45 billion and reflecting strong investor confidence in its AI-generated music platform, which has achieved $200 million in annual revenue. The company faces major legal challenges, including a lawsuit from Sony, Universa...
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Elon Musk's xAI used employee biometric data to train AI girlfriend
Elon Musk's xAI required employees to provide personal biometric data, including facial and vocal characteristics, to develop its anime-styled female chatbot Ani, as part of the secret "Project Skippy" initiative. The collected biometric information was intended to make the AI's conversations mor...
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Mercor's Valuation Soars to $10B in $350M Series C
Mercor raised $350 million in Series C funding, led by Felicis Ventures, boosting its valuation to $10 billion and involving both returning and new investors. The platform pivoted from AI hiring to connecting AI labs with domain experts for model training, charging fees for matching and supportin...
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Meta Defends AI Lawsuit, Claims Downloaded Porn Was 'Personal Use'
Meta is facing a lawsuit from Strike 3 Holdings, which alleges the company illegally downloaded adult films using corporate IP addresses and a hidden network to train an AI model called Movie Gen, seeking over $350 million in damages. Meta has moved to dismiss the case, calling the claims baseles...
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Founders Race Noosa Triathlon Using Their Own AI Training Tech
Kitt Companion is an AI training platform created by Noosa Triathlon competitors Leigh Kelson and Freya Simmonds, designed to optimize athletic performance through personalized plans, nutrition, and injury prevention. The system integrates data from wearables and apps to provide professional-grad...
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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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Web Standards Set to Reshape AI Content Use
Content creators have faced unauthorized use of their work by AI models, with few existing mechanisms to protect intellectual property online. The IETF's AI Preferences Working Group is developing standardized rules to let website owners control how AI systems access and use their content. This i...
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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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Music Publishers Sue Anthropic for $3B Over AI Song Piracy
Major music publishers are suing AI company Anthropic for allegedly pirating over 20,000 copyrighted songs, with potential damages exceeding $3 billion. The lawsuit follows a similar case where a court ruled AI training on copyrighted content is allowed, but acquiring it through piracy is illegal...
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Disney Sues Google Over AI Copyright Infringement
Disney has issued a cease-and-desist letter to Google, alleging its AI models (like Veo and Gemini) have engaged in widespread copyright infringement by generating Disney characters and stories without permission. Disney accuses Google of willfully leveraging its market dominance to profit from t...
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Google's Gmail Update: A Choice for 2 Billion Users
Confusion around Gmail security highlights a widespread user misunderstanding of cloud data practices, placing the onus on individuals to manage their own privacy across all major platforms. Despite clarifications that recent Gmail headlines were based on old data or misinformation, the cycle rev...
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Google Denies Using Gmail Emails to Train AI
Google has denied using personal Gmail emails to train its AI systems, clarifying that Gmail Smart Features are separate from AI model training and no changes have been made to user settings for this purpose. Some users experienced unexpected reactivation of Smart Features after a January update,...
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Unlocking the Genome with Generative AI
Generative AI is advancing in genomics by interpreting and generating functional DNA sequences, moving beyond protein structure prediction to address the fundamental genetic code of life. A key breakthrough involves training AI on bacterial genomes, which exhibit functional gene clustering, enabl...
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Major Studios Demand OpenAI Stop Using Their Content for AI Training
A coalition of Japanese studios, including Studio Ghibli and Bandai Namco through CODA, has demanded that OpenAI stop using their copyrighted works to train AI models, citing potential infringement. The dispute escalated with the launch of Sora 2, leading to a surge in AI-generated content using ...
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Meta Claims AI Training Porn Was for "Personal Use"
Meta is contesting a copyright lawsuit from Strike 3 Holdings, seeking dismissal by arguing the claims of illegal downloading of adult content for AI training are speculative and lack concrete evidence, with potential damages over $350 million. The lawsuit alleges Meta used corporate and hidden 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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Is Open Source Dying in the Age of AI?
The digital world relies on free and open source software (FOSS), which operates on a principle of reciprocity and requires code provenance to trace origins and ensure proper licensing. Generative AI threatens this system by producing code snippets stripped of their origin and licensing, leading ...
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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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Wikipedia Faces Its Greatest Existential Threats Yet
Wikipedia faces intense political attacks, particularly from the right, which allege systemic bias and target its volunteer editors, threatening its collaborative model. The platform struggles with cultural relevance and a declining volunteer base, risking its vitality as a living knowledge repos...
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AI's Real Impact on European Jobs: The Truth
The impact of AI on Europe's labor market is primarily a transformation of work, redefining roles and elevating the importance of new skills, rather than causing widespread job elimination. While overall unemployment remains low, a majority of European firms are re-evaluating job roles due to AI,...
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Google Workspace AI Features Enabled by Default
Google has enabled AI-driven smart features by default for many Workspace users without direct consent, raising privacy concerns and questions about user control over data from services like Gmail and Drive. These features are not activated by default in regions with stricter data protection laws...
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Leadership Paralysis: The Crisis Crippling Australian Businesses
A leadership crisis in Australian businesses is hindering AI adoption, with 84% of office workers using AI but lacking strategic direction, governance, and guardrails from executives. There is a significant AI trust gap and an "AI Acceleration Gap," with only 13% of organizations considered "AI L...
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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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