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San Francisco tech startup, Mercor, is hiring high-skilled workers for a massive undertaking: teaching AI how to do their jobs. On today’s Big Take podcast, reporter Tom Foster and host Sarah Holder break down how Mercor’s college-dropout founders built a $10 billion company aimed at automating the white-collar world

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