Google is offering Android developers cash in exchange for code to train AI
Going after Claude Code and GitHub Copilot
Slack chats and internal data from failed startups are finding a second life in AI training
Developers are buying emails, documents, and code to train AI on real-world workflows and decision-making
GitHub Copilot will use your data for AI training by default, but you can opt out
Individual users are opted in automatically, while Business and Enterprise accounts are excluded
Gig workers are getting paid to film their daily chores to train robots
Teaching robots how to be human
Your AI assistant isn't confused, it just wants to agree with you
Why people-pleasing AI keeps changing its answer when you push back
This humanoid robot learned realistic lip movements by watching YouTube
The technology could redefine how machines express emotion and interact with people
Something to look forward to: Inside a Columbia University engineering lab, a humanoid robot has learned to move its lips with previously unseen realism. The project, led by the Creative Machines Lab, represents the first time an autonomous system has acquired natural lip movement for speaking and singing through visual learning alone.
Amazon is building AI "factories" to run Trainium and GPU racks inside customer data centers
AWS wants to help companies train models on their own data
Alibaba and ByteDance are moving AI training offshore to bypass China chip bans
Nvidia-powered data centers in Singapore and Malaysia now fuel China's top AI models
Google denies Gmail reads your emails and attachments to train AI, but here's how to opt-out anyway
Deactivating "smart features" could disengage spam filters and spell check
Federal authorities take down criminal network smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China
Four people have been charged with various federal crimes
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine are licensing their voices to AI
Selling your voice to AI is all right all right all right
AI has read everything on the internet, now it's watching how we live to train robots
How human movement data is teaching robots to use their hands
Google Skills packs 3,000 tech courses into a gamified learning platform
Courses are free but certifications require a subscription
Anker paid Eufy owners $2 per video to train its AI (even for staged thefts)
Tech companies are increasingly paying users for data to train AI models
In rare disclosure, DeepSeek claims R1 model training cost just $294K
Industry researchers dispute DeepSeek's unusually low training cost claims
Elon Musk's xAI lays off 500 in overnight restructuring of Grok training workforce
Overhaul is emphasizing niche expertise over generalist work
DeepSeek R2 model delayed after Nvidia hardware was replaced with Huawei chips
Chip swap disrupted training, Huawei's tech was used for inference only
Universal Pictures adds a warning to its movies: "do not use to train AI"
Will AI companies even care?
YouTube creators unaware Google uses their videos to train AI
Google confirms AI training but offers no opt-out
Robots use Cornell's RHyME AI to learn new skills by watching just one video
The robots achieved over 50% higher success rates with Cornell's learning framework
Trump administration's "AI Action Plan" may redefine fair use - OpenAI is counting on it
At least one court has ruled in favor of copyright holders
The biggest barrier to enterprise AI adoption isn't technology - it's training
Enterprises are paying for the tools, but they're missing a key piece of the puzzle
The future of AI and journalism at stake: OpenAI battles news giants in copyright lawsuit
The publishers are seeking the destruction of ChatGPT dataset in this high-stakes case
Microsoft Recall is capturing screenshots of sensitive information like credit card and social security numbers
Privacy nightmare is very real, and perfectly avoidable if you disable the feature for good
Robots can now train themselves with new "practice makes perfect" algorithm
Mastering the art of sweeping and clearing out trash