Thinking Machines Lab’s Inkling Model Lands on Databricks Day One
Databricks says it is a day-zero launch partner for Thinking Machines Lab's Inkling model, putting Mira Murati's frontier-model startup directly…
Data markets, alt data, and the AI training-data economy
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Tracks the AI training-data economy: licensing deals, annotation shops, synthetic data, and what frontier labs actually pay for tokens.
Databricks says it is a day-zero launch partner for Thinking Machines Lab's Inkling model, putting Mira Murati's frontier-model startup directly…
A data breach exposed the actual scraping instructions behind Suno's AI music model — including over two million YouTube Music…
Scale AI said July 15, 2026 that it is partnering with Mayo Clinic to apply its data and annotation infrastructure…
A newly launched initiative called SAIL (Standardized Agentic Intelligence Ledger) promises to compensate publishers for AI scraping while preserving editorial…
Ode, a new venture reportedly backed by Anthropic and Blackstone, launched July 15, 2026 with a plan to embed forward-deployed…
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue argues enterprises increasingly prefer open models over frontier ones for cost, accessibility, and ownership reasons,…
Independent researcher Dave Kuszmar says he repeatedly bypassed safety guardrails on major LLMs — including tricking GPT-4o into thinking it…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues companies that generate knowledge through AI use should retain ownership of it, according to a…
An anonymously authored benchmark called the Information Frontier Bench finds that AI agents trying to reach live data are blocked…
The Linux Foundation-backed Overture Maps Foundation announced on July 13, 2026 that its membership has grown to 50 organizations, signaling…