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Flight Attendants' Union Objects to Google's Purchase of Spirit Airlines' Employee Data Over Privacy Concerns

A flight attendants' union objects to Google's $10m purchase of Spirit Airlines' internal data, citing inadequate privacy protections for former employees' records, and seeks court intervention.

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Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends

Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends

“Our message is not that we’re coming after jobs,” Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp told Fortune. “That's just not correct.”

Billionaire Gen Zer dropped out of high school to launch his start-up at 17—now he’s the richest self-made 25-year-old in the U.K and all of Europe

Billionaire Gen Zer dropped out of high school to launch his start-up at 17—now he’s the richest self-made 25-year-old in the U.K and all of Europe

James Dacombe, the 25-year-old behind AI chipmaker Olix and brain monitoring startup CoMind, says being young and “naive” was a career advantage.

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AI unicorn Mercor acquires Deeptune after founder Brendan Foody backed the startup

The acquisition comes as Mercor says it reached $2 billion in annual recurring revenue despite a high-profile cybersecurity breach in March.

Why AI guardrails need common sense built around defensibility

Why human pragmatism will play a larger role than government regulations in establishing AI guardrails.

Surya Midha: The Young AI Entrepreneur Making Headlines in Silicon Valley

Surya Midha is an Indian-origin entrepreneur who was born in Mountain View, California, and raised in San Jose. His parents had emigrated from New Delhi to the United States, shaping his early exposure to both Indian and American cultures. He studied Foreign Studies at Georgetown University, but eventually dropped out…

Meet Surya Midha: The 22-year-old college dropout AI founder who became a billionaire faster than Mark Zuckerberg

At the age of 22, most people are still trying to complete university, secure their first stable job, or decide what they actually want to do in life. That is why the story of Surya Midha has attracted so much global attention. The Indian-origin entrepreneur reportedly became one of the…

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Want to Buy OpenAI Stock? Invest in This 1 Robinhood ETF

Want to Buy OpenAI Stock? Invest in This 1 Robinhood ETF

The Robinhood Ventures Fund (RVI) now offers long exposure to OpenAI.

Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirms it was caught up in a major security incident

Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirms it was caught up in a major security incident

Mercor confirmed it was hit by a supply-chain attack targeting LiteLLM, a widely used AI developer tool. Extortion gang Lapsus$ claims to have walked away with four terabytes of data.

Time-to-Hire, Decoded: Leveraging Mercor's AI to Drastically Reduce Your Recruitment Cycle

Time-to-Hire, Decoded: Leveraging Mercor's AI to Drastically Reduce Your Recruitment Cycle

Discover how Mercor's AI-powered recruitment platform helps companies drastically reduce time-to-hire by automating resume screening, interview scheduling, and candidate matching—without sacrificing quality.

International Business Times

Chief people officers—and Jamie Dimon—say AI can’t learn ‘human skills.’ The world's youngest self-made billionaires want to prove them wrong

Chief people officers—and Jamie Dimon—say AI can’t learn ‘human skills.’ The world's youngest self-made billionaires want to prove them wrong

What's the price of training an AI to take your job someday (soon)? Mercor has contract gig listings as high as $150 per hour.

These 22-Year-Olds Just Unseated Mark Zuckerberg as the Youngest Self-Made Billionaires

These 22-Year-Olds Just Unseated Mark Zuckerberg as the Youngest Self-Made Billionaires

Wait until you hear about the trio of 22-year-olds who recently became self-made billionaires all on their own.

The world’s youngest self-made billionaire hasn’t taken a day off in 3 years and can’t stop thinking about work—here’s how he keeps from burnout

The world’s youngest self-made billionaire hasn’t taken a day off in 3 years and can’t stop thinking about work—here’s how he keeps from burnout

“People generally burn out, not just from working hard, but from working hard on something that they don't feel as fulfilling and compounding,” he said.

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody Calls It 'A New Category Of Work' As His $10 Billion Company Pays Humans Over $1.5 Million A Day To Train AI

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody Calls It 'A New Category Of Work' As His $10 Billion Company Pays Humans Over $1.5 Million A Day To Train AI

Mercor is paying more than $1.5 million a day to people training artificial intelligence systems.

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Meet the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, who skipped finals to make an empire out of teaching AI 'what only humans know'

At 22, Brendan Foody and his high-school debate team friends turned a hackathon side project into one of the fastest-scaling startups of the AI era.

Move Over Zuckerberg: Three 22-Year-Olds Just Became The Youngest Self-Made Billionaires In History — Thanks To An AI Hiring Startup

Three 22-year-old high school friends are now the world's youngest self-made billionaires, according to Forbes. Their San Francisco-based artificial intelligence hiring startup, Mercor, recently raised $350 million in funding led by Felicis Ventures, valuing the company at $10 billion.

Behind the Curtain: How an AI jobs apocalypse unfolds

Listen closely when companies announce big plans for smaller workforces.

Mercor CEO Says Company Pays $1.5 Million Daily To Humans Teaching AI — Inside Tech's Wild New Gold Rush Minting Billionaires Overnight

As artificial intelligence reshapes global industries, Mercor is paying more than $1.5 million each day to human contractors teaching machines how to think — signaling a new frontier where people profit by training their AI replacements.

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Harvard Dropouts Behind Mercor Target $10 Billion Valuation As Startup Supplying OpenAI, Tesla And Nvidia Hits $450 Million Run Rate

Mercor, a startup connecting domain experts to technology giants like OpenAI, Meta (NASDAQ:META), and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), is in discussions with investors for a Series C round that could value the company at more than $10 billion, according to TechCrunch.

Peter Thiel-Backed Fellows' Startup Mercor Targets $10 Billion Valuation As OpenAI, Meta, Tesla Turn To Its AI Training Experts: Report

Mercor, founded by three Thiel Fellows who dropped out of Harvard, is reportedly pursuing a Series C funding round targeting a $10 billion valuation amid surging demand from artificial intelligence companies for specialized training experts.

Meta–Scale AI Partnership Sees Signs Of Strain As Key Executive Departs In Just Two Months, Researchers Pick Rivals: Report

The partnership between Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) and Scale AI is reportedly showing signs of strain, with a key executive leaving Meta just two months after the partnership was formed.

These Gen Z and millennial founders dropped out of college, took $200,000 from Peter Thiel, and have now built companies worth over $100 billion

The Thiel fellowship awards $200,000 to young people who skip or leave college to spend two years building a startup, with notable alumni including Figma CEO Dylan Field and Scale AI cofounder Lucy Guo.

Exclusive: Felicis has raised $900 million tenth fund

Felicis has raised its tenth fund at $900 million, the firm’s largest to date, Fortune can exclusively report.

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