Ai Training Industry
Broader industry news covering the AI training and data labeling market
Own a Company? AI Labs Are Paying Up to $1M a Year for Your Workflow Data
Frontier labs ran out of public internet text to train on. Mercor and micro1 now pay ordinary mid-size companies six and seven figures a year to license the anonymized record of how their teams work.
AI Trainer Named the Fastest-Growing Tech Job as Hiring Hits a Wall
Randstad analyzed 35 million job postings: AI trainer roles are up 281% and verified AI credentials are securing promotions 3.5x faster, while companies struggle to fill the jobs.
3D Sensor-Fusion Has Become the New Home for Premium AI Annotation
Basic 2D annotation is now automated. Premium human-in-the-loop work has moved to 3D sensor-fusion for robotics and spatial computing — and where contractors should look next.
Contractors Say Alignerr Now Mirrors Outlier After the Upcraft Deal
After Labelbox's Upcraft deal, contractors report unpaid onboarding loops and mid-project removals. A teardown of Alignerr vs. Outlier's pitch vs. reality.
Scale AI Slashed Contractors as Surge AI Quietly Hit $1.4B Run Rate
Scale AI cut 500+ contractor slots after the $14.3B Meta deal. Surge AI hit a $1.4B run rate paying $18–$24/hr. Here's where contractors should move next.
Meta's Automation Push Triggers Strike at Dublin Firm Covalen
720 Covalen workers face redundancy as Meta automates Irish annotation. CWU voted for strikes over terms leaving 400 workers with nothing.
The LiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack That Exposed Mercor
A LiteLLM supply-chain attack exposed Mercor to class-action lawsuits and a possible 4TB data leak — biometric footage and PII for 40,000 workers.