A civil rights attorney can now earn $400 an hour with no client involved. Recruiters are advertising that rate for attorneys, $170 an hour for condensed matter physics experts and up to $120 for software engineers, all to “help train next-generation AI systems,” Bloomberg reported....
A Google spokesperson told PYMNTS on Thursday (Oct. 8) that the company has already taken measures to address concerns about the company’s purchase of data from Spirit Airlines. The spokesperson said this after more than 100 U.S. lawmakers called on the CEOs of Spirit Airlines...
Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare has launched a setting that enables website owners to remain visible in search results while blocking crawlers from using their content for artificial intelligence training, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 15) press release. Cloudflare’s new Disallow AI Training setting...
Google has expanded the scope of data it collects to train its artificial intelligence models, now incorporating media uploaded by users across several of its primary search-related services. The policy change, Engadget reported Monday (July 6), was implemented without much public fanfare and allows the...
April 06, 2026
The companies that process the world’s payments have spent decades building a record of how money moves across merchants, geographies and account types. Every transaction carries a timestamp, a merchant identity, an amount and an account history. Unlike the text and images that train most artificial intelligence (AI) systems, that data is structured and tied […]
October 25, 2026
OpenAI says it has adopted new security protocols for training its artificial intelligence models. That means placing the models in a closed system without access to the internet, the AI startup announced Friday (Oct. 23). “Working closely with cloud providers, we’ve added new controls throughout our infrastructure, reduced the attack surface that agents can exploit, […]
October 08, 2026
A Google spokesperson told PYMNTS on Thursday (Oct. 8) that the company has already taken measures to address concerns about the company’s purchase of data from Spirit Airlines. The spokesperson...
September 15, 2026
Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare has launched a setting that enables website owners to remain visible in search results while blocking crawlers from using their content for artificial intelligence training, the...
July 06, 2026
Google has expanded the scope of data it collects to train its artificial intelligence models, now incorporating media uploaded by users across several of its primary search-related services. The policy...