Meta-backed Scale AI is taking the Department of Defense to court. Some docs are expected to be classified.

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Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang speaks at a Congressional hearing, July 2023
Alexandr Wang cofounded Scale AI. But he's about to become a very expensive hire at Meta.

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Gruve raises $50 million to solve what its CEO calls AI's biggest problem: power

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Gruve cofounder and CEO Tarun Raisoni, wearing a blue blazer and standing in front of a brown padded wall, with his hands in front of him.
Gruve cofounder and CEO Tarun Raisoni

Gruve

Marc Benioff says a documentary about Character.AI's effects on children was 'the worst thing I've ever seen in my life'

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Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff said that Section 230 needs to be reformed and tech companies should be held responsible for online harm.

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Google and chatbot startup Character.AI are settling lawsuits over teen suicides

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Character.AI and Google are entering settlement negotiations with the families of teenagers who died by suicide.

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This startup is helping companies train AI with an old but buzzy technique. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $7.5 million.

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AgileRL cofounders
AgileRL cofounders

Entrepreneur First

The CEO of $2 billion AI training startup says that humans will stay involved in data creation for decades

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Matthew Fitzpatrick
Matt Fitzpatrick said that a big industry misconception is that synthetic data will take over in a few years.

FINN Partners

I am training AI to do my investment analyst job. It's a bet on job security.

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Alexander Vasylenko
AI trainer Alexander Vasylenko.

Alexander Vasylenko

Pay cuts, poaching, and pivoting: Inside Scale AI after Meta

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Collage featuring, Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang

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Surge AI CEO says he worries that companies are optimizing for 'AI slop'

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Surge AI CEO headshot
Surge AI's CEO says companies are optimizing for flashy AI responses rather than real-world problems.

Surge AI

Inside the shadow market for AI training accounts

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Illustration of person at a computer
AI training firms Scale AI, Mercor, Surge AI, and Handshake have raised billions this year.

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