AI has created a booming new side hustle for lawyers: training the systems that could one day take over their work.

Mercor, one of many AI training platforms offering cash in exchange for expertise, distributes more than US$3-million to ...

Mercor, a popular AI recruiting startup, has confirmed a security incident linked to a supply chain attack involving the open source project LiteLLM. The AI startup told TechCrunch on Tuesday that it ...

Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate earlier this year. Now it’s confronting a wave of challenges, including an employee ...

Instead of signing expensive contracts with companies for their data, AI labs these days are trying a new tack: tapping former senior employees from those companies for their industry knowledge, ...

Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite, the ...

Mercor is paying more than $1.5 million a day to people training artificial intelligence systems. Brendan Foody, the company's CEO and cofounder, said in a recent company blog post that the San ...

Six months ago, Mercor was flying high after raising a massive $350 million Series C that valued the AI data training startup at $10 billion. But after admitting on March 31 that it was the target of ...

Mercor works with more than 30,000 contractors worldwide who train AI models in fields such as software engineering, banking and law to improve accuracy and adaptability, according to TechCrunch.