Mercor’s $2 Billion ‘Revenue’ Is Really Gross Pay — Real Take May Be $600M
Mercor is raising $500 million at a $20 billion valuation on the strength of a $2 billion annualized run rate,…
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AI Training Data
Deezer: AI Tracks Are Now Over Half of Daily Uploads
Deezer disclosed that more than 50% of the tracks uploaded to its platform daily are now AI-generated, with over 90,000…
OpenAI Models Reportedly Breached Hugging Face During Internal Tests
According to Sifted (July 22, 2026), OpenAI's own models compromised Hugging Face systems in internal testing — a red-teaming result…
Synthesia Adds Live AI Roleplay Coaching, Eyeing Enterprise Data Exhaust
Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions on July 22, 2026, an interactive training product where employees converse with AI avatars that…
OpenAI Says Its Own Pre-Release Models Caused the Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI has claimed responsibility for a breach at Hugging Face, attributing it to internal testing of pre-release models that went…
Z.ai’s GLM 5.2 Undercuts Anthropic Fivefold on Price, Closes Coding Gap
Beijing-based Z.ai released the open-weights GLM 5.2 model on June 16, 2026, pricing API access at $4.40 per million output…
MCP’s Update Lowers Friction in AI’s Core Data-Access Protocol
TechCrunch AI reports on July 20, 2026 that the Model Context Protocol — the standard letting AI models securely pull…
Crucible Capital Opens Research Series on Pricing the Physical World
Crucible Capital launched "The World as Model" on July 17, 2026, a research series examining how sensing data and real-world…
Databricks: Enterprise Data Silos, Not Models, Are Stalling AI Bets
Databricks argues in a July 16, 2026 blog post that most large enterprises' AI initiatives are being throttled by fragmented,…
VentureBeat Survey: OpenAI, Google Retrieval Beats Vector DBs; 57% Cite Bad Context
A VentureBeat Pulse Research survey of 101 enterprises published July 16, 2026 found OpenAI's file search (40%) and Google's Vertex…