{"id":1001650,"date":"2026-04-07T12:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001650"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:48:30","slug":"meta-pauses-all-work-with-ai-recruiting-startup-mercor-after-10-billion-company-confirms-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/07\/meta-pauses-all-work-with-ai-recruiting-startup-mercor-after-10-billion-company-confirms-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta pauses all work with AI recruiting startup Mercor after $10 billion company confirms hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has indefinitely suspended all work with Mercor. This comes after the artificial intelligence (AI) data contracting startup valued at $10 billion confirmed a security breach that may have exposed proprietary training data belonging to some of the world&#8217;s most prominent AI laboratories. According to a WIRED report, two sources confirmed Meta\u2019s move and described it as indefinite. The story has created quite an upheaval in the world of AI research; other labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to determine just how serious this breach is for them and whether any of their highly valued private datasets have fallen into the wrong hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has indefinitely suspended all work with Mercor. This comes after the artificial intelligence (AI) data contracting startup valued at $10 billion confirmed a security breach that may have exposed proprietary training data belonging to some of the world&#8217;s most prominent AI laboratories. According to a WIRED report, two sources confirmed Meta\u2019s move and described it as indefinite. The story has created quite an upheaval in the world of AI research; other labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to determine just how serious this breach is for them and whether any of their highly valued private datasets have fallen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}