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The AI Industry Is Secretly Powered by Homeless People (futurism.com)

2026-05-13 | by Krystle Vermes | tags: mercor, sign, workers

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Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450 million (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-12 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | get Venture Capital Fund Book → | tags: kevin hartz, paypal, eventbrite

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Hackers hack victims hacked by other hackers (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-07 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get Cybersecurity Incident Response Kit → | tags: teampcp, sentinelone, trivvy

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4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-27 | tags: voice biometrics, mercor, lapsus$

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Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating (theverge.com)

2026-04-23 | by Robert Hart | get Cybersecurity Privacy Toolkit → | tags: anthropic, claude mythos, cybersecurity

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Workers Sue $10 Billion AI Startup for Collecting and Exposing Personal Data (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-04-23 | get AI Data Privacy Kit → | tags: ai startup, mercor, openai

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Chinese Workers Horrified as Bosses Direct Them to Train Their AI Replacements (futurism.com)

2026-04-21 | by Victor Tangermann | get AI Training Simulation Kit → | tags: mercor, openclaw, china

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Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training AI to Do Human Jobs (futurism.com)

2026-04-15 | by Victor Tangermann | get AI Job Training Kit → | tags: mercor, openai, anthropic

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After data breach, $10B-valued startup Mercor is having a month (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-09 | by Julie Bort | get Cybersecurity Data Breach Kit → | tags: mercor, litellm, meta

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After data breach, $10B valued startup Mercor is having a month (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-09 | by Julie Bort | get Cybersecurity Data Breach Kit → | tags: mercor, litellm, open source

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AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-03 | get AI Data Annotation Service → | tags: mercor, ai training data, job work

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Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk (wired.com)

2026-04-03 | by Maxwell Zeff | get Data Security USB Drive → | tags: meta, mercor, openai

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AI Trainer Mercor Offers to Pay People for Prior Work—Work Employers Might Own (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-04-03 | get AI Training Data Kit → | tags: mercor, ai trainer, tech giants

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Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-01 | by Jagmeet Singh | get Cybersecurity USB Flash Drive → | tags: litellm, mercor, lapsus$

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Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open source LiteLLM project (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-01 | by Jagmeet Singh | get LiteLLM Open Source Toolkit → | tags: litellm, mercor, teampcp

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Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-01 | by Jagmeet Singh | get Cybersecurity USB Flash Drive → | tags: litellm, mercor, open-source

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You Could Be Next (theverge.com)

2026-03-10 | by Josh Dzieza | get Smartwatch → | tags: chatgpt, mercor, rust

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Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-06 | by Russell Brandom | get AI Assistants → | tags: agents, anthropic, lawyers

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Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs (futurism.com)

2026-01-12 | by Victor Tangermann | get AI Assistant → | tags: jobs, mercor, reality

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A New White-Collar Gig Economy: Training AI To Take Over (slashdot.org)

2025-11-06 | by Posted | get NLP → | tags: hour, mercor, professionals

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Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C (techcrunch.com)

2025-10-31 | by Ram Iyer | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: ai, billion, company

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Sources: AI training startup Mercor eyes $10B+ valuation on $450 million run rate (techcrunch.com)

2025-10-31 | by Marina Temkin | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: ai, company, mercor

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AI Startups and the Case of the Allegedly Missing Trade Secrets (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid | get Chromebook → | tags: ai, ling, mercor

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Elon Musk, AI Startups, and The Case of The Allegedly Missing Trade Secrets (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid | get Chromebook → | tags: ai, company, ling

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Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers (techcrunch.com)

2025-10-31 | by Julie Bort | get Chromebook → | tags: customer, mercor, scale

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Scale AI still exists and it’s suing an ex-employee over corporate espionage (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Hayden Field | get Amazon Echo → | tags: ai, company, ling

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Mercor, an AI recruiting startup founded by 21-year-olds, raises $100M at $2B valuation (techcrunch.com)

2025-10-31 | by Tage Kene-Okafor | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: ai, foody, hiring