{
  "id": 235329,
  "title": "Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs (Anna Tong/Forbes)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/docs-us-data-labeling-companies-like-surge-ai-and-mercor-that-sell",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-06T19:30:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/08/05/silicon-valleys-other-china-problem-its-training-their-ai/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The same Silicon Valley startups supplying OpenAI, Anthropic and the U.S. government are also selling AI training datasets …",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "A profile of DDN, a managed data storage company whose annual revenue is expected to grow from $300M pre-AI boom to $1B by year's end, fueled by AI partnerships (Iain Martin/Forbes)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/a-profile-of-ddn-a-managed-data-storage-company-whose-annual-revenue",
        "published": "2026-08-07T01:05:01.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}