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Utkarsh Amitabh says he definitely wasn't in the market for a new job in January 2025, when data labeling startup micro1 approached him about joining its network of human experts who help companies ...

AI models are trained on massive amounts of data. But that training doesn’t do much good without what’s known as “reinforcement learning,” a process that involves human experts teaching models the ...

The government has determined that developing AI models using open-access academic papers may qualify as fair use, but doing the same with news articles and offering summaries without permission from ...

On Tuesday, news reports indicated that U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA) and John Curtis (R-UT) introduced the Copyright Labeling and Ethical AI Reporting (CLEAR) Act into Congress.

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more ...

Utkarsh Amitabh did not plan to add one more role to his already full schedule when 2025 began. He was running Network Capital, teaching at universities, writing, and working toward a Ph.D. at Oxford.

Last week, Nikkei Asia reported that researchers at Sony Group were working on technology to identify copyrighted music embedded in AI-generated tracks. The story was widely picked up, with coverage ...