







Have 30-200 Employees? Make $50k-$500k selling your data for AI Training.
Chief people officers—and Jamie Dimon—say AI can’t learn ‘human skills.’ The world's youngest self-made billionaires want to prove them wrong | Fortune
What's the price of training an AI to take your job someday (soon)? Mercor has contract gig listings as high as $150 per hour.

Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs
For AI agents, seeing is expensive


Thaura / Your Ethical AI Companion
No ads, no investors, no training on your data. Just an AI that works for you.

Celebrating 250 million: Empowering communities to enable the global AI economy
Microsoft surpasses its digital access goal, partnering with governments and Starlink to expand connectivity and support long‑term participation in the AI economy

Bosses Are Blowing More Money on AI Agents Than It'd Cost Them to Just Pay Human Workers
Some organizings are finding themselves spending more on AI token fees than they do paying human salaries.

Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators
Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.

Microsoft reports are exposing AI's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees | Fortune
Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill.

A milestone in expanding access to AI
ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.

The AI Industry Is Lying To You
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Firms like Meta and A16z admit having to pay billions for training data would ruin their generative-AI plans as they fight new copyright rules
Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Andreessen Horowitz are trying to keep AI developers from having to pay for copyrighted material used in AI training.
Fluidstack selected by Anthropic to deliver custom data centers in New York and Texas - Fluidstack: Leading AI Cloud Platform for Training and Inference
The $50 billion investment in American computing infrastructure will create approximately 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs.

How to Build an AI Data Center | IFP
Part One of Compute in America: Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure at Home

Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?
Tech companies are pouring hundreds of billions into data centers, taking on heavy debt, but current revenue is relatively tiny. Critics warn of a new dot-com bubble.
Data on AI Companies
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