Ukraine opened its battlefield dataset to a foreign country for the first time
About five million labeled images become accessible to British firms. The trained model stays in Ukraine, and the work happens inside a secured dataroom.
Policy
Training data
A bankrupt airline's 34 years of data is for sale, and its workers objected
Google won the bid at $10 million. The flight attendants' union objected, arguing the sale covers decades of sensitive employee records.
Policy
The data efficiency gap: why children learn language from so few examples
A language model processes vastly more words than a child hears while mastering a mother tongue. The gap has a name but no explanation.
Research
An AirTag traced the shipment: rare books are being destroyed for AI training
A 404 Media investigation placed an AirTag inside a book shipment and tracked it, revealing that Amazon scans printed books it buys in bulk and destroys them in the process. The data trains its Nova models.
Policy