Human Archive, a startup founded by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world physical training data that AI and robotics labs are racing to acquire.

Uber has decentralized its Hive data warehouse, migrating 16,000 datasets totaling over 10 petabytes using pointer-based federation. The migration ensures zero downtime, strict ACL enforcement, improved governance, and scalable, domain-specific datasets for analytics and machine learning workloads. By Leela Kumili