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Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-12 | by Connie Loizos | get Meta AI Developer Kit → | tags: meta, ai unit, applied ai

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Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes (slashdot.org)

2026-06-03 | get Meta Workplace Privacy Badge → | tags: meta, superintelligence labs, ai training data

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Meta will reportedly let employees take 30-minute breaks from its tracking program (engadget.com)

2026-06-03 | by Karissa Bell | get Meta Employee Wellness Tracker → | tags: meta, model capability initiative, mark zuckerberg

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Meta's AI training effort is capturing employee emails and browsing history, not just mouse clicks (techspot.com)

2026-06-01 | get Meta Data Privacy Toolkit → | tags: meta, model capability initiative, ai training

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This Startup Will Clean Your NYC Apartment for Free — As Long As You Allow Them To Do This One Thing (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-01 | by Jonathan Small | get Robot Vacuum Cleaner → | tags: microagi, shift app, ai training

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A Company Will Clean Your Nasty Apartment For Free if You Let Them Record It (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-30 | get Cleaning Service with Video Recording → | tags: ai training, company, data

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Meta's employee mouse tracking program could reportedly violate EU privacy laws (engadget.com)

2026-05-30 | by Mariella Moon | get Privacy-Focused Mouse Tracker → | tags: meta, mouse tracking, eu privacy laws

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Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-29 | by Robert Hart | tags: shift, ai training, bercan kilic

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Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores (theverge.com)

2026-05-29 | by Robert Hart | get Smart Home Security Camera → | tags: shift, ai training, robotics companies

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This company wants to clean your house for free, to train AI and robots (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-29 | get Robot Vacuum Cleaner → | tags: shift, ai training data, household robots

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This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots (theverge.com)

2026-05-29 | by Robert Hart | get Robot Vacuum Cleaner → | tags: shift, ai training, bercan kilic

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Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-25 | by Chris Mellor | get Samsung 980 Pro SSD → | tags: huawei oceanstor dorado, large language model, norway national library

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85% of workers can’t connect AI training to their job (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-20 | get AI Skills Training Course → | tags: docebo, ai adoption, ai training

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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-15 | get Legal Settlement Document Organizer → | tags: anthropic, copyright settlement, araceli martinez-olguin

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Authors fight for higher payouts from Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-15 | get Copyright Law Book → | tags: anthropic, copyright settlement, araceli martinez-olguin

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The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-14 | by Jessica Klein | tags: deepfake, ai training data, adult performers

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I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Training AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-11 | by Ruth Fowler | get AI Content Creation Kit → | tags: ai training, turing, paramount

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I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI (wired.com)

2026-05-11 | by Ruth Fowler | get AI Content Creation Toolkit → | tags: ai training, hollywood, turing

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Google's DeepMind to train AI on player actions in quarter-million-player MMORPG Eve Online — Google bought in by purchasing a minority stake in the newly independent Fenris Creations (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Mark Tyson | get EVE Online Collector's Edition → | tags: deepmind, eve online, fenris creations

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Meta contractor fires 1,100 AI trainers after they revealed Ray-Ban glasses recorded private and intimate footage (techspot.com)

2026-05-01 | get Ray-Ban Stories Smart Glasses → | tags: meta, ray-ban, ai trainers

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‘This Makes Me Super Uncomfortable’: Meta’s Plan to Track Employees’ Every Click and Keystroke Sparks Backlash (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-22 | by Sherin Shibu | get Workplace Monitoring Software → | tags: meta, ai training data, model capability initiative

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Meta Plans to Turn Its Employees’ Clicks and Keystrokes into AI Training Data (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-21 | get Meta AI Training Keyboard → | tags: meta, ai training data, employees

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Meta To Start Capturing Employee Mouse Movements, Keystrokes For AI Training Data (slashdot.org)

2026-04-21 | get Ergonomic Wireless Mouse → | tags: meta, ai training, model capability initiative

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Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-21 | get Privacy Screen Protector → | tags: meta, ai training, employee monitoring

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Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-21 | get Privacy Screen Protector → | tags: meta, ai training, employee monitoring

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3 million dating app photos used for AI training before FTC privacy enforcement (9to5mac.com)

2026-04-21 | by Ben Lovejoy | get AI Privacy Compliance Kit → | tags: okcupid, clarifai, ai training

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Slack chats and internal data from failed startups are finding a second life in AI training (techspot.com)

2026-04-19 | get AI Data Privacy Tool → | tags: slack, ai training, startup data

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Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-17 | get Slack Data Archive Tool → | tags: slack, email archives, ai training

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How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history (technologyreview.com)

2026-04-17 | by James O'Donnell | get Robotics Learning Kit → | tags: humanoid robots, robotic arms, deep learning

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Skilled Older Workers Turn To AI Training To Stay Afloat (slashdot.org)

2026-04-09 | get AI Training for Seniors → | tags: ai training, openai, google