Mercor
PulseAugur coverage of Mercor — every cluster mentioning Mercor across labs, papers, and developer communities, ranked by signal.
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Robinhood launches second retail venture fund amid AI rally
Robinhood is launching a second public venture fund, RVII, to allow retail investors access to early-stage startup deals. This follows the strong performance of its first fund, RVI, which has seen its market value doubl…
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Hollywood creatives turn to AI training jobs amid industry slump
Hollywood writers and showrunners, facing industry stagnation after a strike, are increasingly taking on AI training and data annotation jobs to make ends meet. These roles involve assessing chatbot responses, identifyi…
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Mercor automates AI staffing, hits $500M revenue amid AGI race
AI companies are experiencing a surge in demand for software engineers and data labelers as they pursue AGI development. Startup Mercor has capitalized on this trend by building an automated workforce platform, achievin…
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Hugging Face launches APEX-Agents leaderboard for open-source models
Mercor has launched the APEX-Agents leaderboard on Hugging Face to evaluate open-source models. This benchmark assesses the capability of models to perform tasks typically handled by professionals such as consultants, l…
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Karen Hao investigates hidden human workforce powering AI models like ChatGPT
A report by Karen Hao investigates the human labor behind AI models like ChatGPT, highlighting the often-invisible workers who perform data labeling and other tasks. These workers, frequently employed through third-part…
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Vect's ransomware is a data wiper, making victim data unrecoverable
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that the ransomware used by the Vect group, which has targeted numerous organizations since January, is actually a data wiper. This malware permanently destroys files larger tha…
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AI's economic viability in the workplace remains uncertain, with studies showing models struggle with real-world tasks.
Despite significant advancements in AI capabilities, many systems still struggle to demonstrate economic viability in real-world workplace applications. A recent study by Mercor found that AI agents from leading compani…
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Mercor breach exposes 4TB of voice data, enabling sophisticated AI-powered fraud
A significant data breach has exposed approximately 4 terabytes of voice samples belonging to over 40,000 AI contractors from the company Mercor. The stolen data includes voice recordings and government-issued identity …
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Anthropic's restricted AI tool Mythos accessed by Discord group
A group of Discord users gained unauthorized access to Anthropic's highly restricted AI tool, Mythos Preview. The users reportedly exploited information from a data breach of an AI training startup and made an educated …
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Anthropic's highly secure AI model, Mythos, suffers embarrassing security breach
Anthropic experienced a significant security lapse with its highly capable cybersecurity AI model, Claude Mythos. Despite emphasizing the model's dangerous potential and restricting its access, unauthorized users gained…
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Anthropic's Mythos AI faces hype backlash amid security breach and overblown claims
Anthropic's new bug-hunting AI model, Mythos, has reportedly been accessed by unauthorized individuals through a third-party vendor environment, despite Anthropic's efforts to control its release. Early assessments sugg…