An interview with one of the Amazon employees at Amazon’s AI training facility VGT3.
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
Using Amazon Augmented AI for Human Review - Amazon SageMaker AI
Use SageMaker AI to build, train, and host machine learning models in AWS.
Using the Amazon Mechanical Turk Workforce - Amazon SageMaker AI
Use SageMaker AI to build, train, and host machine learning models in AWS.
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
Amazon Gets Into The AI Podcast Slop Business
Late last year we wrote about a new startup that was flooding the internet with AI-generated podcast slop. Featuring fake hosts having fake discussions, the startup proudly stated it was creating a…
The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI [Digital Download] — Welch Labs
The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI offers unique perspectives on artificial intelligence through hands-on exploration and richly detailed graphics that give readers a visceral understanding of how AI actually works. From the fundamental perceptron to cutting-edge AI video generation, each chapte
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
Notes from inside China's AI labs
Lessons from my trip to talk to most of the leading AI labs in China.
How a 40-Minute Window Brought Down a $10 Billion AI Startup: The Mercor Data Breach, Explained
A poisoned open-source package, a credential-stealing payload, and 4 terabytes of stolen data here’s what every AI company needs to learn…
Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting
Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon’s Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses and propose fixes to the company’s platforms.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns
Where are your agents right now?
Review: THE AI DOC: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist
Missing the elephant in the room
AI Economy Institute - Microsoft Research
The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is Microsoft’s flagship think tank dedicated to shaping an inclusive, trustworthy AI economy. We building a network of scholars and convening that network with our subject matter experts to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming work, education, and productivity – and making this knowledge base available to policy-makers, educators, and […]
