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Snorkel AI triples to $3.5B valuation on $350M Series E as data demand surges
Revenue run-rate hit $375M, an 18x jump in 12 months, as AI labs pay up for training data and RL environments.
Jaeden SchaferEditor in Chief4 min read
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Micro1 hits $500M run rate as AI training data demand surges
The four-year-old data-labeling startup grew fivefold in eight months, trailing Mercor's $2B and Handshake's $1B in the same market.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Business
AI startups are hitting revenue milestones in half the time
Mercor doubled from $1B to $2B in four months. Anthropic added $17B in run rate in under two. The pattern is now the story.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Business
Arena hits $100M run-rate eight months after launching paid evaluations
The UC Berkeley-born AI leaderboard tripled revenue from $30M in January, competing for post-training dollars against Scale AI, Mercor, and Surge.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Business
Top 1% of US firms now spend $7,500 per employee monthly on AI
Ramp's latest index pegs the median at $11.38 — but the heaviest users are pushing token budgets toward engineer-salary territory.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Business
Mercor's Brendan Foody accuses Sequoia of dual-pricing valuation games
The Mercor co-founder says he's counted six rounds in six months where Sequoia split investments into two tranches at very different prices.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Careers
Hollywood writers turn to AI data-labeling gigs at $52 to $150 an hour
Out-of-work TV writers are training chatbots for Mercor, Outlier and Turing, joining a contractor economy that's volatile, opaque and growing fast.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Analysis
AI's underpants gnomes problem: Mercor study finds agents fail most of 480 workplace tasks
A February 2026 Mercor study tested top agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind on real banker, consultant, and lawyer work. They flunked.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Security
Discord users gained unauthorized access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview model
Amateur sleuths used a Mercor breach and a guessed URL to reach restricted Anthropic models, according to a Bloomberg report.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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