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The DATA Foundation Launches to Tackle AI’s Multi-Billion Dollar Training Data Bottleneck

Today, Story announces a strategic transition to become The DATA Foundation (“DATA”) and launches Trace, an onchain registry ...
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Story Protocol Rebrands as Data Network in AI Training Pivot After IP Token Falls 98%

Intellectual property network Story Protocol has shifted its focus to a new opportunity in training data for artificial ...

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.

Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest ...
Science Daily

AI may not need massive training data after all

New research shows that AI doesn’t need endless training data to start acting more like a human brain. When researchers redesigned AI systems to better resemble biological brains, some models produced ...
VentureBeat

New AI framework autonomously optimizes training data, architectures and algorithms — outperforming human baselines

AI R&D runs on a cycle of hypothesis, experiment, and analysis — each step demanding substantial manual engineering effort. A new framework from researchers at SII-GAIR aims to close that bottleneck ...
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AI training data is becoming a seller's market. Here's what it's worth

OpenAI's five-year licensing deal with News Corp is worth more than $250 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. That figure, reported when the deal was announced in May 2024, remains the ...
Forbes

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data. When Shanna Johnson was winding ...
IPWatchdog

CLEAR Act Would Establish Notice Requirements for Copyrighted Works in AI Training Data

“[O]ur bipartisan legislation will help build public trust for emerging technologies and foster the best of American creativity.” – Senator John Curtis The use of copyrighted works to train generative ...