Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk

The LeafyPod smart planter will turn even the worst plant killer into a green thumb.

The LeafyPod smart planter will turn even the worst plant killer into a green thumb.

The LeafyPod smart planter will turn even the worst plant killer into a green thumb.

A state bill is a glimpse of how corporations are limiting people's ability to make their own fixes and upgrades.

Murphy Campbell is at the center of a brewing storm around AI and a broken copyright system. | Image: Murphy Campbell In January, folk artist Murphy Campbell discovered several songs on her Spotify profile that did not belong there. They were songs that she had recorded, but she'd never uploaded them to Spotify, and something was off about the vocals. She quickly surmised that someone had pulled performances of the songs she posted to YouTube, created AI covers, and uploaded them to streaming platforms under her name. I ran one of the songs, "Four Marys", through two different AI detectors, and it seemed to support her suspicions with both saying it was probably AI-generated. Campbell was shocked, "I was kind of under the impression that we had a little b … Read the full story at The Verge.

We’ll cover three categories of hidden bottlenecks I measured on a real RTX 5060 training loop. None of them is in your model architecture. All of them are fixable in minutes. And the numbers will probably surprise you, both in where the speedup is large, and where it isn’t.