PCMag

Google Can Now Use Your Search Uploads for AI Training: Here's How to Opt Out

Google last month introduced a new Search Services History setting that can save your media uploads for AI development, ...

Facing US export controls, China’s DeepSeek plans to make its own chips

DeepSeek, the Chinese startup developing large language models that are competitive with those from US companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, is planning to enter the silicon business, according to ...
Tech Times

LLM Data Mixture Breaks When Training Pools Shift: Causal Inference Offers Fix

LLM training data mixture optimization breaks when training pools shift — every prior proxy experiment becomes stale.
The Information

Anthropic’s Mythos Spooked DeepSeek, Prompting Its $7.4 Billion Fundraising

Up until two months ago, DeepSeek, the three-year-old Chinese AI lab, was an anomaly in the increasingly costly global AI ...
PNAS

Streamlined optical training of large-scale modern deep learning architectures with direct feedback alignment

Training today’s largest neural networks is limited by backpropagation’s sequential updates and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) bound compute and energy, slowing scaling. We demonstrate a hybrid ...
Hardcore Gamer

All Training Data Locations in Pragmata

A Canadian who has worked in the gaming industry for over two decades, Beck grew up on games such as Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros. He specalizes in roleplaying games, but covers titles in almost ...
MIT Technology Review

Humanoid data

Robotics companies want tremendous amounts of data on how we move our hands and limbs, and their tactics are getting strange. I was recently invited to join an app that would pay me cryptocurrency to ...
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 ...
IEEE

Rapid Full-Wave Training-Data Synthesis for Deep-Learning Surrogates

Abstract: A strategy for efficiently generating high-quality training datasets for forward electromagnetic (EM) surrogates that predict the performance of pixelated microwave passive devices is ...
TechSpot

GitHub Copilot will use your data for AI training by default, but you can opt out

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.
Engadget

Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received more than 1 million reports of AI-related child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in 2025. The "vast majority" of that content was ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Amazon Found ‘High Volume’ Of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data

Amazon.com Inc. reported hundreds of thousands of pieces of content last year that it believed included child sexual abuse, which it found in data gathered to improve its artificial intelligence ...