Google has agreed to pay $10 million for a trove of business data from the now-defunct Spirit Airlines, including emails, Microsoft Teams chats, software code, and revenue and operations data, to impr…
Google won a bankruptcy auction to purchase Spirit Airlines' internal data for $10 million, outbidding AI training data firm Mercor, and plans to use the data to improve its AI models. The purchase in…
Google won a $10 million bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal corporate data and custom software, outbidding AI training startup Mercor's $7.5 million offer, to improve its AI models. The …
A New York Post report says the AI boom has created a record number of billionaires, with Forbes' 2026 list adding 45 new fortunes tied directly to AI ventures, fueling luxury spending on watches, hom…
Mercor, a profitable Series C AI data company valued at $10 billion, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for its Enterprise Evals Platform in San Francisco, offering a salary of $220,000–$425,000 pe…
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 or New York, offering a salary of $130k–500k per…
Prestige venture firms are increasingly securing better prices than other investors in the same funding round through dual valuation deals, a practice that has become pervasive in the current AI-drive…
Mercor, a profitable Series C AI data company valued at $10 billion, is hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer for its Agent Platform in San Francisco with a salary range of $130k–500k/yr. The role inv…
Mercor, a profitable Series C AI data company valued at $10 billion, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for Deeptune, its RL environments lab, with a salary range of $220k–600k/yr, based on-site in…
Mercor, a three-year-old AI training company valued at $10 billion in October 2025, pays more than 30,000 contractors over $4 million daily to help make their own jobs obsolete, according to a July 20…
Felicis, the Bay Area venture capital firm known for investments in Shopify, Notion, and Mercor, has hired Graham Littlehale as a partner to invest in aerospace, defense, energy, manufacturing, and ro…
A developer's wishlist for AI tooling includes business logic verification that ties requirements back to source documents, AI systems capable of design thinking and subjective UX evaluation, and an A…
Mercor, in partnership with Ramp, introduced APEX-Accounting, a benchmark to assess whether frontier models can perform real accounting tasks such as reconciling accounts and posting transactions. Acr…
Mercor, a $10 billion AI training startup, is reverting to whiteboard interviews and ditching take-home assignments that can be completed with AI, according to head of product Osvald Nitski on the "20…
Claude Opus 5 scored 30% on Arc AGI 3, roughly three times the next best model, and achieved a perfect 42 out of 42 on IMO 2026 without tool use, according to independent benchmarks. Anthropic describ…
Mercor, a San Francisco-based AI recruiting and data platform, hit $614 million in gross revenue during the first half of 2026 with an annualized run rate of $2 billion, processing over $2 million in …
Mercor, a San Francisco-based AI recruiting and data platform, reported $614 million in gross revenue for the first half of 2026, with over 90% coming from AI foundation model companies, implying a $2…
Adarsh Hiremath, Co-founder and CEO of Mercor, said on Zero-Shot Learning that many enterprise teams move agents to production without ensuring they are calibrated to specific use cases, leading to fa…
XAI's Grok 4.5 ranked second on the Mercor APEX-SWE leaderboard with a 51.2% Pass@1 accuracy, trailing Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 at 65.5%. The benchmark tests real-world software engineering tasks, h…
Mercor, a three-year-old AI training marketplace run by a 23-year-old CEO, is in talks to raise at a $20 billion valuation, doubling its worth in nine months despite a recent data breach that cost it …