AI Platform’s ‘Expert’ Workforce Draws Misclassification Suit

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...

Law.com·2d ago

Workers sue $10 billion AI startup for collecting and exposing personal data

Mercor, which has worked with OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, says it disputes the allegations.

The Wall Street Journal on MSN·Apr 22

Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training AI to Do Human Jobs

Futurism·Apr 15

Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs

Futurism·Jan 12

Reduce friction and latency for long-running jobs with Webhooks in Gemini API

Event-Driven Webhooks are a push-based notification system that eliminates the need for inefficient polling.

Google AI·May 4

‘Workers are treated like cattle’: 20-something Peter Thiel proteges run a $10 billion startup that hires professionals to train their AI replacements

Mercor, a gig-work platform that provides top white-collar talent to AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, has tens of thousands of such experts. According to a Bloomberg report, Mercor pays out...

AOL·Apr 18

AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job

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 ...

Gizmodo·Apr 3

Everyone Talks About Jobs AI Will Replace — But What About the Jobs It Will Create?

Whenever people talk about AI, the conversation almost always circles back to the same question: “Which jobs will disappear?” But far less attention goes to something just as important: the new roles...

AIMiracle Blogspot·Dec 9

Elevating Austria: Google invests in its first data center in the Alps.

Google has been a proud part of Austria’s landscape for years, and today, we’re announcing our first data center in Kronstorf, generating 100 direct jobs. This facility …

Google AI·Apr 23

$10B Thiel-backed Mercor hires pros to train AI

moneywise.com·Apr 18

Exclusive | AI Trainer Mercor Offers to Pay People for Prior Work—Work Employers Might Own

WSJ·Apr 3