Mercor, a profitable Series C AI data company valued at $10 billion, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for Agentic Systems in San Francisco with a salary range of $130k–500k per year. The role inv…
Serval, a San Francisco-based startup, launched Catalyst on August 20, 2026, an AI agent that automates the creation of enterprise IT workflows, moving beyond reactive ticket-based systems. CEO Jake S…
US data labeling firms collectively earn roughly $500 million per year from China's six leading AI operations, including ByteDance, Alibaba, Ant Group, and Tencent, while also serving US military AI p…
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) warned that four major US AI data providers—SurgeAI, Mercor, AfterQuery, and Turing—are supplying data to Chinese AI labs while also working for the Pentagon, citing a Fo…
Sequoia Capital, in a new guide, urges enterprises to consider owning their AI models rather than renting frontier APIs, citing the rapid advancement of open-weight models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 and…
Amazon will permanently close Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending a 21-year run for the crowdsourcing service that connected more than 500,000 paid human workers with businesses needing smal…
Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal data with a $10 million bid, acquiring 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams items, and decades of operating records to train it…
Amazon Web Services will permanently shut down Amazon Mechanical Turk on Sept. 30, 2026, after 21 years of operation, giving workers and businesses a little more than a month to transition away from t…
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk (MTurk) on September 30, 2026, after 21 years, ending the crowdsourced digital labor platform that helped build the human-data pipeline for AI. The company stop…
Google won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Spirit Airlines' corporate dataset for $10 million, outbidding AI data firm Mercor's $7.5 million offer. The dataset includes roughly 100 million emails, 500…
Google won a bankruptcy auction with a $10 million bid for the corporate data of Spirit Airlines, which stopped flying in May, beating a $7.5 million bid from AI data company Mercor. The data includes…
Google won a $10 million bid to purchase 34 years of Spirit Airlines' data, including employee records, time-card data, and email accounts, to improve its AI models, but the Association of Flight Atte…
Rillet, an AI-native accounting startup, has raised $100 million in a Series C round at a $1 billion valuation, and its CEO Nicolas Kopp says AI is reshaping consulting firm hiring by reducing routine…
Google has bid $10 million to acquire Spirit Airlines' emails and Teams messages in bankruptcy court, marking the start of AI data wars where corporate archives are treated as AI training assets. The …
Harvey released Harvey Tenet, its first post-trained model, as a research preview on August 20, 2026, reporting that it completes almost twice as many held-out tasks on its Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB)…
Google has won a $10 million bid for Spirit Airlines' corporate data, including internal wikis, emails, source code, and spreadsheets, to train AI models, according to court documents. Rival AI traini…
Google won a bankruptcy auction to buy Spirit Airlines' internal data for $10 million, beating AI data company Mercor's $7.5 million bid. The dataset includes 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft…
Mercor, a profitable Series C AI data company valued at $10 billion, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for its Enterprise Platform in San Francisco, offering a salary of $130k–500k/yr. The role in…
Google's $10 million purchase of Spirit Airlines' internal data, including 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, faces opposition from the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, …
Venture capital firm Benchmark's Everett Randle calls the fast-growing market where AI labs pay human experts to teach models the 'Task Economy,' predicting it will become the next $1 trillion categor…