Scale AI is facing its third lawsuit over alleged labor practices in just over a month, this time from workers claiming they suffered psychological trauma from reviewing disturbing content without adequate safeguards. Scale, which was valued at $13.8 billion last year, relies on workers it categorizes as contractors to do tasks like rating AI model
In Brief Posted: 4:42 PM PST · January 21, 2025 Image Credits:Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images Jessie Tinsley, CEO of a workforce management company, Employer.com, is conducting what could become the year’s wildest acquisition spree. First, Employer.com announced its plan last month to acquire Bench, the Canadian accounting startup that abruptly shut down over
Alexandr Wang, the CEO of Scale AI, has taken out a full-page ad in The Washington Post asking the Trump administration to invest more in AI. Wang, who attended Trump’s inauguration on Monday like many other tech CEOs, posted a copy of the ad on X, which reads “Dear President Trump: America must win the
AI might excel at certain tasks like coding or generating a podcast. But it struggles to pass a high-level history exam, a new paper has found. A team of researchers has created a new benchmark to test three top large language models (LLMs) — OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama, and Google’s Gemini — on historical questions.
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