The $10 Billion AI Contractor Training ChatGPT Left 40,000 SSNs Completely Unprotected
Mercor is a $10 billion AI staffing company that supplies the human workforce training ChatGPT, Meta's models, and Anthropic's Claude: doctors, lawyers, and journalists doing the reinforcement learnin...
2 Maj 18min
Meta Employees Are Being Forced To Build Their Own Replacements | Meta Layoffs
Meta pushed keylogging software onto every U.S. employee's computer — keystrokes, mouse movements, screenshots, no opt-out — one month before 8,000 layoffs begin. The same employees generating the tra...
24 Apr 11min
OpenAI's $200M Podcast Acquisition: TBPN, Fidji Simo, and the Lobbying Play
OpenAI told employees to stop chasing side quests. Then they spent $200 million on a podcast and put their head of lobbying in charge. The memo came from Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment. Sh...
16 Apr 9min
North Korea's Hack Hit 80% of the Internet. Most People Have No Idea.
North Korea just scored big on a supply chain attack with the Axios hack. Not the news site — the actual code. Axios npm is a tiny library, downloaded 100 million times a week that lives inside almost...
9 Apr 12min
Sora Shutdown: AI Deepfakes, Disney's Deal Collapse & a $5B Loss
OpenAI shut down Sora six months after launch. The numbers tell the whole story: $5 billion in annual compute costs, $2.1 million in lifetime revenue, a deepfake crisis no guardrail could contain, and...
2 Apr 15min
One CEO Blamed AI for Layoffs. Then They All Did.
160 official layoff filings. Zero cited AI. So why is every CEO suddenly blaming it?Researchers reviewed 160 NY State layoff filings — Amazon, Goldman Sachs, all of them — and not one cited AI as the ...
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This Grammarly Feature Stole Writers' Voices – Now There's a $5M Class Action
Grammarly built AI clones of Stephen King, Carl Sagan, and hundreds of journalists, then charged users $12 a month for "expert writing feedback" from those clones. Not one of those writers consented, ...
19 Mars 14min
Alpha School: The $75,000 AI School Surveilling Kids at Home
Alpha School charges up to $75,000 a year for an AI-first education where kids do their core academics in two hours a day. Leaked documents show employees flagged AI-generated lessons with broken ques...
12 Mars 18min
