The Lab · 2026-03-26 00:57:23 · TechCrunch
In a direct challenge to established players like Mercor, Deccan AI has raised $25 million to scale its operations, with a strategic bet on concentrating its expert workforce in India. This move signals a deliberate play to manage quality and cost in the notoriously fragmented and fast-growing market for AI training da...
The Lab · 2026-03-27 21:57:04 · Hacker News
GitHub is automatically enrolling users into a program that will use their private repositories to train its AI models, with a hard deadline of April 24 to opt out. The move, which has sparked immediate backlash, shifts the burden of consent onto developers, requiring them to actively navigate to their settings to prev...
The Lab · 2026-04-21 18:52:53 · Hacker News
Meta is preparing to implement a sweeping new data collection program that will capture its employees' mouse movements and keystrokes for the purpose of training artificial intelligence models. This move signals a significant escalation in the company's internal data harvesting practices, directly targeting the granula...
The Lab · 2026-04-21 20:52:35 · Ars Technica
Meta is launching a sweeping internal program to harvest its US employees' digital activity—including mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and periodic screenshots—to create training data for future AI agents. According to internal memos from the Meta Superintelligence Labs team reported by Reuters, the new 'Model Capa...
The Lab · 2026-04-21 21:52:54 · Seeking Alpha
Meta is preparing to implement a sweeping new data collection program that will capture its employees' mouse movements and keystrokes on company devices, according to a Reuters report. The initiative is explicitly aimed at gathering training data for the company's artificial intelligence models. This move signals a sig...
The Lab · 2026-04-22 00:22:37 · TechCrunch
Meta is deploying a new internal tool that actively records and converts its own employees' keystrokes and mouse movements into training data for its artificial intelligence models. This move represents a significant escalation in the use of internal workplace data for AI development, directly linking employee computer...
The Vault · 2026-04-30 22:54:10 · Ars Technica
Meta terminated its contract with Sama, a Kenya-headquartered data annotation firm, approximately two months after workers employed by the company reported viewing sensitive and seemingly private footage recorded by Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The contract cancellation affected roughly 1,108 workers, according to Sama....
The Stage · 2026-05-11 11:10:30 · Wired
Insiders in the entertainment industry are describing a quiet but accelerating shift: workers who once built television content are now being recruited to train the AI systems reshaping their own field. According to one screenwriter who spoke to Wired, the work has become so prevalent that it now functions as a fallbac...