Anthropic’s Project Panama Turns Backlist Books Into AI Training Data — Then Pulp
A Dutch bookseller's 3,001-title order exposed a widening trade in which AI firms buy used books by the thousand, scan…
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Appen (ASX:APX) Reports US$65M Quarter, China Run-Rate Above US$175M
Stocks Down Under reported on July 28, 2026 that Appen posted US$65 million in quarterly revenue with an annualized China…
Hugging Face’s Open Hosting Model Lets Nudify Tools Thrive, Study Finds
AI Forensics found 7 of the top 9 image-editing models on Hugging Face readily generated nonconsensual nude images from simple…
Dun & Bradstreet: 76% of 10,000 Firms See AI ROI, Just 6% Call Data ‘Fully Ready’
Dun & Bradstreet's Q3 2026 AI Momentum Survey of 10,000 businesses across 32 countries found 76% report measurable AI ROI…
ISBNdb Pitches Pre-2022 Books as a Cleaner Training-Data Supply Chain
The book-data company is marketing bulk physical-book acquisition as a way to reduce synthetic-text risk. Dated editions and receipts improve…
Ropedia Raises $22M to Scale Human-Experience Data for Robots
The Singapore startup says its headsets capture first-person video, depth, motion and audio for robot training. The round brings disclosed…
NASA Flies Google’s Gemma 3 in Orbit With Zero Space-Specific Training Data
NASA's JPL ran a 4-bit, 4-billion-parameter Gemma 3 model aboard a Loft Orbital satellite, hitting 88% accuracy on a 7,960-image…
Google Lifts 2026 AI Capex to $195–205B, Even as Investors Balk
Google raised its 2026 capital expenditure guidance to $195-205bn to accelerate AI data center construction, Datacenter Dynamics reported July 22,…
AMD Locks In Gigawatt-Scale AI Chip Deal With Anthropic
AMD and Anthropic have struck a gigawatt-scale AI computing partnership, according to ChannelLife Australia's July 22, 2026 report — a…
A Scale AI Rivals Listicle Surfaces — Minus Any Numbers
Charleston Gazette-Mail published a roundup titled 'Top Emerging Players Competing with Scale AI in 2025,' but the available text offers…