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TO RUN DEC 24, 2025As AI systems grow more capable, the bar for human training has risen sharply, and generalist data labelers are being pushed aside.That’s according to HireArt’s 2025 AI Trainer Compensation Report, which collected information from more than 150 sources, including a survey of active workers, public job postings, and internal data.The study shows that today’s AI models demand nuanced reasoning, domain expertise, and multilingual fluency, transforming “data labeling” into specialized cognitive work.Subject-matter experts in fields such as law, engineering, and medicine now command dramatically higher rates than traditional data annotators, reflecting their new strategic importance.The shift signals…
Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its policy that bans companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer their own AI chatbots on the popular chat app. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) on Wednesday said it had found enough cause in its ongoing investigation into whether Meta was abusing its dominant position in the market to offer its Meta AI chatbot within WhatsApp to order the suspension of the policy. “Meta’s conduct appears to constitute an abuse, since it may limit production, market access, or technical developments in the AI Chatbot services market, to the detriment of consumers,” the Authority…
Suze Lopez holds her baby boy on her lap and marvels at the remarkable way he came into the world.Before little Ryu was born, he developed outside his mom’s womb, hidden by a basketball-sized ovarian cyst — a dangerous situation so rare that his doctors plan to write about the case for a medical journal.Just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies occur in the abdomen instead of the uterus, and those that make it to full term “are essentially unheard of – far, far less than 1 in a million,” said Dr. John Ozimek, medical director of labor and delivery at Cedars-Sinai…
The role of chief technology officer is in a constant state of evolution with the advancement of artificial intelligence.Over the last two decades of his career, Blackstone CTO John Stecher has watched technology move from a “magic thing in the back office” to the forefront of every business, he told Business Insider.”Technology wasn’t looked at as being an absolute must-have in a business, but it is now,” Stecher said. “If you have any type of creaky infrastructure technology-wise, it doesn’t matter which industry you’re in, you’re not going to be successful.”As the executive overseeing Blackstone’s technology, cybersecurity, early-stage technology investment,…
Every doctor wants to see a smile on a patient’s face, but there is one that no doctor ever wants to see: risus sardonicus, sometimes known as the sardonic grin or the devil’s smile, the cruel mark of a tetanus infection.After decades of success against tetanus in the U.S., there are troubling signs that the deadly bacterial infection could make a comeback, a fallout from the drop in vaccination combined with a rise in climate change-related natural disasters that can increase the risk of exposure.In 1948, when the tetanus vaccine was first combined with diphtheria and pertussis, 601 cases of…
Every doctor wants to see a smile on a patient’s face, but there is one that no doctor ever wants to see: risus sardonicus, sometimes known as the sardonic grin or the devil’s smile, the cruel mark of a tetanus infection.After decades of success against tetanus in the U.S., there are troubling signs that the deadly bacterial infection could make a comeback, a fallout from the drop in vaccination combined with a rise in climate change-related natural disasters that can increase the risk of exposure.In 1948, when the tetanus vaccine was first combined with diphtheria and pertussis, 601 cases of…
Not everyone in AI is ready to declare the end of the age of scaling.”I’m not convinced it’s completely over,” Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of AI,” recently told Business Insider, weighing in on one of the hottest debates in AI circles this year.Hinton is aware that OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, one of his former students, said last month that the pendulum of AI development is swinging back toward research — and away from companies simply making breakthroughs by scaling, or acquiring more compute and more chips.”Is the belief really: ‘Oh, it’s so big, but if you had 100x more, everything…
Brian Wharton, the chief detective of a small police force in East Texas, had seen his share of tragedies on the job, but he had never handled a case like Robert Roberson’s: In January 2002, Roberson, a 35-year-old single father, arrived at the emergency room with his 2-year-old, Nikki, limp and bundled in a blanket.Roberson said the girl had fallen from bed overnight, but when nurses and doctors evaluated her severe head injuries, they grew suspicious. Wharton led the investigation.Robert Roberson with his daughter, Nikki, before her death in 2002. (Courtesy Roberson family)Specialists later found that Nikki must have been…
PAPIRI, Nigeria (AP) — In a Christmas reunion, families and villagers in north-central Nigeria cried and hugged schoolchildren who were held for a month after being seized in one of the largest mass abductions in the country’s history. The 130 schoolchildren and teachers were released on Sunday and brought home in Niger state’s Papiri community late Wednesday night, marking the last batch freed since the Nov. 21 attack on St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri.Mothers with teary eyes hugged their kids tightly while other children were lifted high in the air, their faces beaming with joy as villagers called out…
2025-12-24T01:55:43.953Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. A federal judge cleared the way for the Trump administration to slap a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications.US District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, DC, ruled Tuesday that the steep increase is lawful, handing the administration a win as it pushes to curb immigration and steer hiring…