#mercor — Public Fediverse posts

𝗔 𝟮𝟮 𝗔𝗡𝗦, 𝗜𝗟 𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗟'𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗜𝗥𝗘

Le jeune entrepreneur Surya Midha, cofondateur de la startup d'intelligence artificielle Mercor, est devenu l'un des plus jeunes milliardaires autodidactes au monde.
#Business #IA #Mercor #SuryaMidha #NXMMedia

"I no longer knew what the Golden Task of my own life might look like. When given the chance to respond to details from this article, Mercor said that it strives to give workers “as much notice as possible when these projects change”—a sentiment roughly echoed by other companies. Between February and April 2026, I was hired and fired on seven different projects over four different platforms. The dismissals were always abrupt, shocking. One moment I would be typing rubrics into an Airtable, waiting in line on a 24-hour Zoom to talk through a task with a reviewer. The next, the UI would vanish. The Slack channel would disappear. The Google docs would lock me out. No message. No warning. No explanation.

I never intended to write about this industry. I came to it not as a journalist but as a disgruntled, broke TV writer determined to make a dent in student loans and keep paying LA rent while my industry withered in front of me. But working with and for AI had proven even more cruel than I could have ever imagined. Mercor says it employs about 300 full-time staffers. Meanwhile, each week it keeps some 30,000 independent contractors caught up in a fever dream of aimless, directionless urgency, corralled across Slack channels by achingly young adults, sending messages at 3 am to “push on” and “finish strong” and “lock in” and “Go Team GO!” All in service of the grandest purpose in history: to successfully remove a scuba diver from a picture with one click of a mouse, transport him to the moon without any glaring artifacts—and bring him back again.

The next generations of team leaders won’t know our specific talents or our unique skills, but they will know the Average Time it takes us to annotate a grainy video uploaded without the owner’s consent into a vast catalog of other possibly stolen videos (...) To make the machine more human, they will make us more like the machine."

https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-everyone-who-used-to-make-tv-now-training-ai/

#AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #LLMs #Mercor #GigEconomy

4TB of voice samples were just stolen from 40,000 AI contractors. Here is how to verify if yours is being weaponized.
#Mercor
https://app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-breach-2026

All Content from Business Insider | Meta paused its work with AI training startup Mercor after a data breach by Kelsey Vlamis,Charles Rollet

Meta paused its work with the AI training startup Mercor.Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Meta has paused its work with Mercor and is investigating after a data breach, a person familiar said.Mercor confirmed to Business Insider that it was recently affected by a security incident.Mercor works with major companies by providing training data for AI models.Meta has paused its work with Mercor and is investigating after a recent data breach at the AI training startup, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Business Insider.

Mercor, which was valued at $10 billion in a funding round in October, works with major tech companies like Meta to train AI models with the help of thousands of human contractors and experts. Wired first reported on Friday that Meta had paused all its work with the company.

Read the original article on Business Insider

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-pauses-work-mercor-ai-training-investigating-data-breach-2026-4

#meta #mercor #aitraining #litellm

#Meta Pauses Work With #Mercor After #DataBreach Puts #AI Industry #Secrets at Risk

Major AI labs are investigating a #security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.
#breach

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-data-breach-puts-ai-industry-secrets-at-risk/

Mercor, the AI recruiting startup valued at 10B USD, is reportedly exploring a new way to gather training data by purchasing work product from employees leaving their previous jobs. The approach could reshape how companies source AI training materials while raising questions about intellectual property rights and worker compensation. https://gizmodo.com/ai-training-data-giant-mercor-is-reportedly-looking-to-buy-the-work-you-did-at-your-old-job-2000742263 #AIagent #AI #GenAI #WorkforceDisruption #Mercor

AI firm Mercor confirms a breach linked to the #LiteLLM supply chain attack, as hackers claim 4TB of stolen data.

Read: https://hackread.com/ai-firm-mercor-breach-hackers-4tb-data/

#CyberSecurity #DataBreach #Mercor #AI #TeamPCP #Lapsus

Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/mercor-says-it-was-hit-by-cyberattack-tied-to-compromise-of-open-source-litellm-project/

#HackerNews #Mercor #Cyberattack #LiteLLM #OpenSource #Security #TechNews

AI recruiting startup Mercor has disclosed a cyberattack linked to a supply chain compromise of open-source LiteLLM project. The incident is connected to hacking group TeamPCP, with Lapsus$ also claiming responsibility and leaking data. Mercor works with OpenAI and Anthropic to train AI models and was valued at 10B USD after a 350M USD Series C in October 2025. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/mercor-says-it-was-hit-by-cyberattack-tied-to-compromise-of-open-source-litellm-project/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIInfrastructure #Mercor

Mercor, an AI recruiting startup, has disclosed a cyberattack linked to the compromise of open-source LiteLLM project. An extortion group claims responsibility for the data breach. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/mercor-says-it-was-hit-by-cyberattack-tied-to-compromise-of-open-source-litellm-project/ #Tech #Startup #News #AI #Mercor

"There are no objective tests for whether financial analysis or advertising copy is “good.” Undeterred, AI companies set out to make such tests, collectively paying billions of dollars to professionals of all types to write exacting and comprehensive criteria for a job well done. Mercor, the company Katya stumbled upon, was founded in 2023 by three then-19-year-olds from the Bay Area, Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha, as a jobs platform that used AI interviews to match overseas engineers with tech companies. The company received so many inquiries from AI developers seeking professionals to produce training data that it decided to adapt. Last year, Mercor was valued at $10 billion, making its trio of founders the world’s youngest self-made billionaires. OpenAI has been a client; so has Anthropic.

Each of these data companies touts its stable of pedigreed experts. Mercor says around 30,000 professionals work on its platform each week, while Scale AI claims to have more than 700,000 “M.A.’s, Ph.D.’s, and college graduates.” Surge AI advertises its Supreme Court litigators, McKinsey principals, and platinum recording artists. These companies are hiring people with experience in law, finance, and coding, all areas where AI is making rapid inroads. But they’re also hiring people to produce data for practically any job you can imagine. Job listings seek chefs, management consultants, wildlife-conservation scientists, archivists, private investigators, police sergeants, reporters, teachers, and rental-counter clerks. One recent job ad called for experts in “North American early to mid-teen humor” who can, among other requirements, “explain humor using clear, logical language, including references to North American slang, trends, and social norms.” It is, as one industry veteran put it, the largest harvesting of human expertise ever attempted."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/white-collar-workers-training-ai.html

#AI #GenerativeAI #Mercor #OpenAI #Anthropic #AITraining #Automation #MassUnemployment

Laid-off #Scientists and #Lawyers Training #AI to Steal Their #Careers
#Mercor says 30k work on its platform each week, #ScaleAI claims to have over 70k “M.A.’s, #PhD and college graduates.” Surge AI advertises Supreme Court litigators, McKinsey principals, and platinum recording artists. Experience in #law, #finance, & #coding, areas where AI is making rapid inroads. But also hiring people to produce data for practically any job you can imagine.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/white-collar-workers-training-ai.html
https://archive.ph/RVSZM

The #AI #talentwar has extended to #datalabelling companies, with startups like #Mercor aggressively recruiting from rivals like #micro1. This is driven by the explosive growth of the #humandatamarket, fuelled by the increasing demand for #highqualitytraining data to improve #AImodels. The shortage of skilled professionals has intensified competition for talent. https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/02/05/the-ai-talent-wars-have-hit-data-labeling/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Today I learned that there is no option in LinkedIn's "Report advert" to report an illegal job.

#MinimumWage #Canada #Quebec #Montreal #HumanRights #Crime #Fraud #Online #Jobs #Recruitment #LinkedIn #Mercor #Abuse

AI로 돈 버는 곳은 따로 있다: 22세 창업자의 연매출 5억 달러 비밀

https://aisparkup.com/posts/7472

Wie KI Datenfirmen die Maschine füttern
Während alle über Rechenzentren sprechen, entsteht im Schatten eine neue KI-Infrastruktur: Datenfirmen, die Arbeitskräfte und Fachwissen in Trainingsdaten verwandeln. Und genau dort fließt derzeit viel Geld.

Der Markt wächst ra
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/wie-ki-datenfirmen-die-maschine-fuettern/
#Feature #KI #News #Arbeitsmarkt #DataLabeling #HandshakeAI #KI #Mercor #Rechenzentren #RLHF #ScaleAI #Startups #SurgeAI #Trainingsdaten

Statt teure Verträge mit Unternehmen für deren Daten abzuschließen, verfolgen KI-Labore, wie Mercor, einen neuen Ansatz: Sie nutzen das Branchenwissen ehemaliger Führungskräfte dieser Unternehmen.

„ChatGPT wird mit der Zeit besser sein als die beste Unternehmensberatung, die beste Investmentbank und die beste Anwaltskanzlei“, sagte der CEO von Mercor auf der TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. „Das wird die Wirtschaft grundlegend verändern und eine durchweg positive Kraft sein, die dazu beiträgt, Wohlstand für alle zu schaffen.“

#Unternehmen haben guten Grund, #Mercor kritisch zu begegnen, da ihr Branchenwissen durch ehemalige #Mitarbeiter zur #Automatisierung ihrer Arbeit genutzt werden könnte. Zu den Kunden von Mercor gehören ua #OpenAI, #Anthropic und #Meta.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/how-ai-labs-use-mercor-to-get-the-data-companies-wont-share/

#ki #daten

So, companies *won't share* their data? Enter Mercor, the digital locksmith turning legacy data into AI gold, apparently building a $10B empire doing it. Makes you wonder what other digital secrets are just waiting for the right key. What data do you wish was more open?

#AI #DataScience #TechNews #MachineLearning #Mercor
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/how-ai-labs-use-mercor-to-get-the-data-companies-wont-share/

Valuation of AI Labeling Job Marketplace Mercor Soars to $10B Amid Corporate Espionage Lawsuit From Rival Scale AI

#AI #Mercor #ScaleAI #TechLawsuit #CorporateEspionage #VentureCapital

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/09/05/valuation-of-ai-labeling-job-marketplace-mercor-soars-to-10b-amid-corporate-espionage-lawsuit-from-rival-scale-ai-xcxwbn

Hiring fizzled, execs bailed in months - Meta’s “Superintelligence” dreams are fading as fast as they formed. Maybe cash only goes so far. You’d think #MarkZuckerberg might’ve learned that lesson by now. #AI #GenAI #Meta #MSL #ScaleAI #Mercor #Surge #AlexandrWang

Cracks are forming in Meta’s p...

Swarming to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom: a New Crop of 20-Something CEOs - Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college.... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/ai-young-ceos-san-francisco.html #collegesanduniversities #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #mercor.iocorp(mercor) #delvetechnologiesinc #sanfrancisco(calif) #foodybrendan(2003-) #kaushikkarun(2004-) #entrepreneurship #venturecapital #artisanaiinc #cognitionai