The New Yorker

Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...
Ars Technica

Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”

On the surface, it seems obvious that training an LLM with “high quality” data will lead to better performance than feeding it any old “low quality” junk you can find. Now, a group of researchers is ...
Gizmodo

Reddit Sues a Collection of Startups It Says Are Wrongly Scraping It for AI Training Data

Let’s say a website makes it a violation of its terms of service for you to send bots onto its pages in order to vacuum up its text, which you want to package as AI ...
New York Post

SPLC helped train Biden’s DOJ prosecutors, had exclusive access to hate crimes data: bombshell records

WASHINGTON — The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center helped train Department of Justice prosecutors and was given exclusive access to federal hate crime databases to help draft talking points during ...
AOL

AI has run out of training data, warns data chief

AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini have run out of training data, according to Goldman Sachs’ data chief. Neema Raphael, who serves as the banking giant’s chief data officer and head ...
Wired

Anthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data. Here’s How to Opt Out

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...
Android

LinkedIn to Train AI Using Your Data—But You Can Opt Out

LinkedIn has announced it will use user data such as profiles and public posts to train generative AI models, though private messages are excluded. Fortunately, users can opt out in their settings to ...
PC World

LinkedIn is using your data to train its AI models. Here’s how to opt out

Microsoft-owned social networking site LinkedIn will soon start using the data of its users to train its AI models, reports Windows Latest. The platform has sent out emails to users about the change, ...
HotHardware

Microsoft Is Harvesting Your LinkedIn Data To Train AI Unless You Flip This Toggle

Last month, we reported that some users were unable to opt out of LinkedIn's scraping of user data to train AI. Since then, LinkedIn has updated its terms of service ...
TechCrunch

Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI — and training pipelines will love it

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...
InfoQ

InfoQ AI, ML and Data Engineering Trends Report - 2025

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
Tech Digest

LinkedIn to use EU and UK user data for AI training. How do I opt out?

LinkedIn will begin using data from its users in the EU and UK to train its content-generating AI models, a policy change set to take effect on November 3, 2025. The company states the move is ...