Start-ups are paying white-collar professionals to teach their jobs to artificial intelligence models. It’s a bonanza. It’s ...

Mercor is in talks to double to a $20bn valuation and has bought Deeptune, an AI-training startup its own CEO backed. The footnotes are the story.

Mercor works with more than 30,000 contractors worldwide who train AI models in fields such as software engineering, banking and law to improve accuracy and adaptability, according to TechCrunch.

Mercor confirmed to Business Insider on Friday that the company had experienced a security breach.

Mercor, one of many AI training platforms offering cash in exchange for expertise, distributes more than US$3-million to ...

A poisoned LiteLLM update hit Mercor, and Meta pulled the brake. The breach is now a warning flare for AI vendors built on open-source plumbing. Meta has paused work with Mercor after a security ...

Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite, the ...

Brendan Foody, the CEO and cofounder of Mercor, said the company is paying over $1.5 million daily to contractors who are training AI. Mercor, which recruits teams of human experts to train AI models, ...

A $10 billion startup that pays contractors to give feedback on the output of artificial-intelligence models recently began offering a new way to make money: selling their prior work materials. The ...

If you feel like your previous employer didn’t properly compensate you, there might be a way to cash in on that work—though it seems legally (and, depending on how you feel about artificial ...

In short: Meta has suspended its collaboration with Mercor, a $10 billion AI data startup, after a supply chain attack exposed what may be the AI industry’s most closely guarded secrets: not just ...

Mercor, the AI recruiting startup founded by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, has raised $100 million in a Series B round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Menlo Park-based Felicis led the round, ...