How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce
How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce
How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce
A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract trillions of high-quality tokens from PDFs, which are hard to parse, for training
Last November, the House Oversight Committee had just released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein …
How Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack from Musk, conservative groups, the Trump administration, and other governments
On Aug. 27, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform launched … Bluesky: Josh Dzieza / @joshdzieza : Governments, billionaires, influencers, and political groups are ...
An artist shares his experience of turning to Replika's AI bot Lila for companionship, including giving Lila an AI friend by creating a digital copy of himself
Lila was created from the limited options available: female, blue hair, face “number two.” She was there on the next screen … Bluesky: @michaelrnelson , @caseynewton , @joshdzieza...
How a network of repair ships helps maintain the estimated 800,000 miles of undersea internet cables; of the 77 cable ships, only 22 are designated for repair
Field's crew caught the cable on the first try and nearly had it aboard when the rope snapped and slipped back into the sea.
A look at the vast and mostly hidden “tasker” underclass, including subject-matter experts, hired by companies like Scale AI to annotate data for AI training
As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere. Bluesky: @sarahjeong.bsky.social , @knguyen.bsky.social , and @yoyoel.com Masto...
A look at the harsh reality of working for on-demand delivery apps in NYC, including fluctuating pay and relentless time pressure, and labor organizing efforts
New Yorkers need to push for real employment protections for food delivery workers, who are literally risking their lives to feed you. https://twitter.com/... @nymag : @joshdzieza ...
A look at the harsh reality of working for on-demand delivery apps in NYC, including fluctuating pay and relentless time pressure, and labor organizing efforts
New Yorkers need to push for real employment protections for food delivery workers, who are literally risking their lives to feed you. https://twitter.com/... @nymag : @joshdzieza ...
A look at the harsh reality of working for on-demand delivery apps in NYC, including fluctuating pay and relentless time pressure, and labor organizing efforts
New Yorkers need to push for real employment protections for food delivery workers, who are literally risking their lives to feed you. https://twitter.com/... @nymag : @joshdzieza ...
Third-party Amazon sellers are marking products as “collectible” to get around price gouging rules; sellers say the loophole was rarely used before the pandemic
For sale on Amazon: thousand-dollar ‘collectible’ dumbbells and hot tubs — Amazon has suspended thousands …
Amazon says a manager at a facility in California died of COVID-19 on March 31, its first warehouse worker death; Amazon claims worker contracted virus offsite
A worker at an Amazon facility in California has died after contracting covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
A look at the evolving safety precautions at Amazon's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, and how changes are driven primarily by worker pressure
Early Tuesday, March 24th, Barbara Chandler drove from her home in Queens to the Staten Island Amazon warehouse where she'd worked for three years.
In memo to employees, Bezos says face mask orders for workers are unfilled due to short global supply, and that his time is now “wholly focused” on COVID-19
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he has turned all of his attention to the impact of COVID-19, the tech giant's response …
Four US senators, including Bernie Sanders, have sent a letter to Jeff Bezos questioning how Amazon is keeping its warehouse workers safe amid COVID-19
an Amazon facility — is exempt from @NYGovCuomo's executive order to decrease the workforce and send workers home. These workers and the countless customers they serve need to be p...
Amazon warehouse workers and drivers fear the impact of COVID-19 as Amazon grows into an essential service, warning of uneven enforcement of safety measures
Amazon is positioning itself as an ‘essential’ service during the pandemic — a move that benefits the company and puts its warehouse workers and drivers in danger
In warehouses, call centers, and elsewhere, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they're making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous
In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they're making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous