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AI is bad at data. This startup can fix that

A former Wall Street quant and an engineer are building Sphinx to help companies unlock their sprawling and disparate ...

AI scraping is inevitable. Can publishers turn it into revenue?

We all know AI is eating the internet, with bots scraping sites for content and not giving anything in return. This, of ...
TMCnet

TransCelerate and Tufts CSDD Uncover Opportunities to Rethink Data Collection and Optimize Protocol Design

About TransCelerate BioPharma Inc. TransCelerate BioPharma (TransCelerate) is a nonprofit organization that fosters collaboration across the global biopharmaceutical research and development community ...
KHQ

Disney settles FTC lawsuit with $10 million fine over data collection

Disney will pay a $10 million fine to settle a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The lawsuit alleged that Disney allowed personal data to be collected from children under the age of ...
The Conversation

Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it

Margaret Levenstein receives or has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Census Bureau. John Kubale receives funding from the National ...
The Hechinger Report

Inaccurate, impossible: Experts knock new Trump plan to collect college admissions data

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. President Donald ...
Marketplace

What happens to prices when data collection is cut?

Back in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced it was cutting back on some of its data collection, specifically, the kind that helps us understand what prices are looking like for consumers.
Fox Business

Former BLS commissioner says there are better ways to collect data for jobs reports

The processes used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to collect data for the jobs report have been under scrutiny after last week's disappointing jobs report, and one of the agency's former ...
Wall Street Journal

The BLS Isn’t Alone in Facing Data Challenges; U.K. Has Them Too

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is not the only data collector to have had problems with jobs numbers: for years, the U.K.’s main economic statistics agency has faced growing scrutiny about how it ...
Bleeping Computer

Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

Google is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by the ShinyHunters extortion group. In June, Google warned that a threat actor ...
Business Insider

The BLS does have a jobs data problem, but it's not what Trump says

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a disappointing jobs report he said was "RIGGED." While BLS faces data collection problems, monthly revisions to the job creation numbers ...