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The latest Mercor news, : AI companies may buy work files and emails, Wired reports.
6 stories mentioning Mercor since 22 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. Follow to see new ones on your front page.
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AI companies may buy work files and emails, Wired reports
AI firms are reportedly buying professional documents, emails and other workflow data to train models. The industry, led by startups like Mercor, Micro1 and Handshake, is buying graduate‑student papers, corporate…
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Google releases 85-task engineering benchmark and agent competition with Mercor
Google AI & Infrastructure opened a new benchmark and competition on November 3, 2026, called Physical-Engineering’s Last Exam (PLE). Developed with Mercor, PLE tests agents on 85 real-world engineering tasks—30…
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Reducto’s parsing model cuts document ingestion errors by nine percentage points
Reducto, founded by MIT graduates Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri, specializes in converting messy enterprise documents—PDFs, scans, spreadsheets—into structured, usable data for AI systems. The company’s core…
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AI labs buy data from dead startups for training models
AI labs are purchasing data from defunct startups to train models, as public and synthetic datasets prove insufficient. Companies like SimpleClosure and Sunset broker these deals, selling codebases, Slack archives,…
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OpenAI contractors fired for using banned AI tools on ChatGPT review tasks
OpenAI contractors reviewing ChatGPT responses were fired or removed from projects after violating a ban on using AI tools, according to an investigation by 404 Media. The workers, hired to evaluate AI outputs for…
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OpenAI contractors fired for using AI to train ChatGPT under Project Lily
OpenAI's Project Lily employs thousands of contractors through firms like Crossing Hurdles and Mercor to read real ChatGPT conversations and score model responses on a 1–7 scale. Contractors are explicitly forbidden…
4 sources HN 74openclassactions.comibtimes.com.au404media.cogadgetreview.com
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As of 6 November 2026: AI companies may buy work files and emails, Wired reports. AI firms are reportedly buying professional documents, emails and other workflow data to train models.