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NYTIMES (Jeremy W. Peters, Hari Kumar and Anindito Mukherjee) - The Indian City Where AI Is Creating Jobs for Humans Thu Aug 20 09:02:45 2026

In the fast-growing field of data annotation, workers in a small city in south India train A.I. to improve how it performs tasks traditionally done by people.

AI:Workers in the Indian city of Karur are fueling the global artificial intelligence boom by performing specialized data annotation tasks designed to refine machine learning algorithms and improve AI performance. This growing sector provides human-driven labor necessary to train automated systems for complex real-world functions, highlighting a shift where manual data processing becomes a vital component of high-tech development.Open

AXIOS (Mike Allen) - Axios interview: Scale AI CEO Jason Droege pushes "reliablity" reality Wed May 6 10:04:58 2026

Scale AI CEO Jason Droege tells Axios that AI is often too unreliable for mission-critical use by business, military and government. - "The cost of mistakes in these environments can be high," Droege, 47, said in an interview from San Francisco, where Scale — which celebrated its 10th anniversary this week — is based. Why it matters: Droege — who succeeded founder Alexandr Wang last June when the wunderkind became Meta's first chief AI officer, and Meta took a 49% stake in Scale — wants to signal that it isn't merely a data annotation company, but has long been an AI infrastructure and deployment company. Droege unveiled his mantra for his 1,300+ employees in a memo, "The Reliability Race," being reported here for the first…