The Free-Service Wedge: AI startups trade chores for training data
What Changed and Why It Matters AI companies are shifting from scraping the open web to paying for specific, rights-cleared data. A new market has formed: free services and small…
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How a teacher-led startup is fixing AI’s broken data pipelines
What Changed and Why It Matters A former maths teacher just raised a seed round to fix AI’s least glamorous problem: data plumbing. London-based Poindexter Labs closed £2 million to…
Robotics’ New Moat: Real-World Training Data and World Models
What Changed and Why It Matters The center of gravity in robotics is moving from hardware and single-task AI to data pipelines that produce reliable robot behavior in the real…