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Updates on AI Training Data

Every AI story we track on AI Training Data — 45 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked back to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 124 sources

This week

AI startup micro1 bids $12.5M for Spirit’s records, topping Google’s agreed $10M deal

The Next Web

Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot

The Verge
Military7 min read

Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace

MIT Technology Review

This month

AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B

TechCrunch
AI Research5 min read

Sony and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Claude Lyric Training

Covered by 9 sources
Music & Audio8 min read

“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

Ars Technica
Cybersecurity7 min read

OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face

Covered by 4 sources
AI Research3 min read

AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom

TechCrunch
Music & Audio9 min read

Round Hill Sues Suno, Anthropic — Illegally Scraped Music Isn't Fair Use

Forbes
AI Research3 min read

Google Aims to Boost AI with Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data

Hacker News
AI Research4 min read

Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out

Covered by 4 sources
AI Research6 min read

AI Data Wars Begin As Google, Mercor And Micro1 Bid For Spirit’s Data

Forbes
AI Research8 min read

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

Covered by 6 sources
Cybersecurity2 min read

Dutch data protection authority advises Twitch users to opt out from Amazon AI

Hacker News
AI Research2 min read

Google is buying Spirit Airlines' old data for $10 million to improve its AI

Covered by 3 sources
Music & Audio3 min read

Round Hill Music Sues Suno and Anthropic for $1B over AI Training Data

Hacker News
Cybersecurity4 min read

OpenAI Scales Back AI Development, but it Could be Too Late

AI Business
AI Research3 min read

AI companies are desperate for your work-related data. What's your price?

Business Insider
Social Media3 min read

Twitch CPO squirms, admits everyone hates its new AI training 'feature'

Hacker News
AI Research4 min read

Elon Musk tells staff Grok will be trained on all of SpaceX's data: 'It will inherit your thoughts and ideas'

Covered by 2 sources
AI Research4 min read

Rocky Linux Founder Kurtzer Launches OpenWALDO to Open Up AI Training Data

Hacker News

A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion

Hacker News
AI Research6 min read

AI companies keep destroying old books. Heres why.

Mashable
Society & Culture3 min read

Booksellers fear their rarest books are being pulped to feed AI. The trail leads to a ‘recycler’.

The Next Web

Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?

Wired
Machine Learning4 min read

AI firms are buying up old books because they are the last slop-free data left

The Next Web
Music & Audio3 min read

Sony sued Udio again over 30,000 songs, and turned its rivals’ AI deals into a weapon

The Next Web
AI Research3 min read

Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

Covered by 5 sources
Image Generation3 min read

Midjourney turns the tables, demanding the studios suing it reveal their AI

The Next Web
Public Sector6 min read

I don't want a US tech bro as a patron - which is why artists must defend our copyright in the age of AI | Anna Funder

The Guardian
Society & Culture4 min read

Weird Al Yankovic Would’ve Been the Funniest ‘Poster Boy for AI’

Gizmodo

Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness

The Next Web

Getty Images soars after striking a deal with the kind of company it sued

The Next Web

The curious case of Elias Thorne – and what he tells us about AI inbreeding | Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian

UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out

The Next Web

News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to stop AI companies from using it

The Next Web

Your Former Employer Is Selling Your Slacks and Emails to Train AI

Futurism

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI

Gizmodo

YouTubers sue Amazon for allegedly scraping their videos to train Nova Reel

The Next Web

Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm

The Guardian

AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job

Gizmodo

Encyclopedia Britannica Hits OpenAI With Scary Lawsuit

Futurism

Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid

TechCrunch

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

The Guardian

News Corp says media is a valuable ‘input’ for AI as US$50m content deal inked with Meta

The Guardian
That's everything we have on AI Training Data right now