A shadow market for AI training and data labeling accounts has emerged, with scammers selling Outlier, Mercor, and Surge AI accounts online.

A class action against Mercor.io Corp. claims the AI hiring startup misclassified lawyers, doctors, engineers and other subject-matter experts as independent contractors while exerting employer-like ...

In recent days, founders and founders-turned-investors took to X to share horror stories about being mistreated by VCs. Their complaints ranged from VCs falling asleep during pitch meetings to ...

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Meta Platforms, Inc. META has reportedly paused its work with data contractor Mercor following a major security breach. The suspension is indefinite, with sources indicating other AI labs are also ...

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Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates. Along the way, it discovered a more immediate cash cow: finding humans to train AI models. Sitting in ...

Mercor's head of product, Osvald Nitski, said that the AI training company has moved away from take-home assignments that can ...

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With a new $10 billion valuation for their AI recruiting startup Mercor, the founders have become the youngest self-made tech billionaires ever, beating out Mark Zuckerberg who debuted at age 23 two ...