Scale AI—which helps companies like ChatGPT improve the data that feeds their systems—is pictured on a laptop in New York on Aug. 16, 2023. On TikTok, Reddit, and elsewhere, posts are popping up from ...

As AI takes over more routine data tasks, it’s easy to assume data professionals will have less input and impact. In reality, the opposite is true: As automation expands, the most valuable parts of ...

Results for America has awarded 12 new cities with What Works Cities Certification for strong data capabilities and usage. The newly certified cities include five from the U.S. and seven from Latin ...

When San Francisco launched its first open data portal more than a decade ago, it marked itself as a leader in the space. That portal even came with an executive order promoting open data from ...

The essential labor of data work, like moderation and annotation, is systematically hidden from those who benefit from the fruits of that labor. A new project puts the lived experiences of data ...

Data workers in Africa often have a hard time. They face job insecurities – including temporary contracts, low pay, arbitrary dismissal and worker surveillance – and alarming physical and ...

The Exxon Valdez ran aground on March 24, 1989. As it did so, 250,000 barrels of crude oil gushed from the damaged ship and impacted the Alaska shoreline. The accident was an environmental, legal and ...

Data leaders worldwide have a low estimation of the data literacy skills of the employees at their organisations. That is according to a survey and report, dubbed a Data maturity index, from data ...

Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite, the ...