Hey there, Sapiens!

It's time for our weekly recap. We're excited to announce the Town Hall meeting will now take place next Friday, the 14th, at 2 PM Eastern time! will send some more information closer to the time.

This week in Sapien:

Binance:
We’re now officially live on Binance! Binance has listed Sapien ($SAPIEN) and included it as the 57th project on HODLer Airdrops. The world’s largest exchange now also includes the world’s first decentralized data foundry.

Smart Contracts:
We have officially open sourced our smart contract repository, marking a major step toward full protocol transparency and community led development. This enables external developers, auditors, and users to verify that the contracts perform as intended, as well as transparency into how the smart contracts are designed to power staking, validation, rewards, and governance across the network.

Since last week, we’ve updated to Sapien v0.187.0 - Here’s what’s changed:
- Top bar UI responsiveness
- Training hub task card UI Fixes
- Button sizing Cleanup
- Font size Cleanup
- Bounding Box Skills Assessment - coming soon

New Tasks:

Vehicle Model Mapping is coming soon!
This task helps build one of the most essential data layers for AI systems that interact with the physical world: understanding vehicles accurately. Modern AI models that support logistics, navigation, or vision systems all depend on structured vehicle data. You can be the one to provide that data!

We’re also preparing a new Skills assessment for you to show us that you have what it takes to provide quality data for future bounding box tasks!

Our Voices in the World

“AI is learning faster than humanity is creating net new knowledge.” - check out our Founder Rowan Stone’s interview with TEACHMEDEFI on why gathering human expertise at scale will be invaluable as the need for data is ever increasing.

Our internal research articles this week are all about bias, drift, and the compliance issues companies run into by ignoring them. We explained what AI Model bias is in the first place, as well as how the existence of bias leads to the existence of AI Value Drift as a consequence. Companies are now expected to have a fully transparent and auditable record of how their AI model came to the result of its reasoning.

This week, we were joined by our friends at Recall, Pond, PepayLabs, and DeepSafe AI on a conversation about why every business will need AI on our hosted X Space!

This morning, yours truly was invited by our partners at AITV to go into detail about the differences between AI companion and Human companions and what we still need to achieve to meet the demand for them in a secure manner.

See you next week!

We wish you a great start into your November.

We’ll be building… 👋🏻

It’s official. 🚀

$SAPIEN is launching on Binance

AI at scale fails without integrity.

Sapien turns human insight into verifiable, high quality data at global scale.

Now on Binance.

https://x.com/binance/status/1986295433795113222

#Binance is excited to announce the Sapien (SAPIEN) HODLer Airdrop – @JoinSapien.

BNB Holders, get ready! The Airdrop page will be available on the Binance Airdrop Portal in 24 hours. Plus, this token will be listed on Binance soon!

👉https://t.co/Ice7naxBC7

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Hey there, Sapiens!

We've been hard at work internally, and here are some of the highlights!

We've released Sapien v0.187.0 including:
- Top bar UI responsiveness
- Training hub task card UI Fixes
- Button sizing Cleanup
- Font size Cleanup
- Bounding Box Skills Assessment - coming soon

We'll let you know once the Skills Assessment is up! Thanks for all your feedback!

Hey there, Sapiens!

The trend is clear, if you want to run a competitive business, you will need to make AI work for you. Join us in exactly 24 hours right here to find out why in our Space!

We're joined by our friends at Recall, Pond, DeepSafe AI, and Pepay Labs!

Set your reminders right here 👉 https://x.com/i/spaces/1OyJAjAnEDoxb

Scheduled: Why every Business will need AI

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Hey there, Sapiens!

Happy Halloween to all who have plans and I hope you'll either be able to go get some candy tonight or already have. (Go Blue Jays!)

Thank you for a great week and your amazing participation in the Hallo-Meme contest! We will be running more events that include you in the near future, and we're very excited for what's to come. Let's break down the rest of the week!

This Week in Sapien: 🧠

New Hires.
Two new faces have joined the Sapien team. We’re happy to welcome Adam Li, our new Data Scientist, and Ali Malik, our new Product Manager.

Adam joins us from British Columbia in Canada, bringing deep academic and applied machine learning experience from UC San Diego and Harvard Medical School to CBC and Kero Sports. He’s passionate about building systems that bridge scientific rigor with real-world impact.

Ali, based in Ontario in Canada, brings his product craft from YC startups like Surf and Tempo, where he turned fast-moving ideas into beautifully functional user experiences, studying at the London School of Economics while working full time.

Our Voices in the World.

“AI actually needs humans more than humans need AI.”
NBC has featured us in a short clip on how AI is affecting the job market, watch our co-founder Trevor Koverko’s take on why human intelligence remains essential.

Our research this week focused on what happens when AI runs out of freely available data on the internet to train on. We’re hitting this roadblock as the sheer size of datasets used for AI models is rapidly exhausting the energy grid. The solution, as so often in this space, is to make sure that there is a continuous human in the loop to keep AI accountable.

This week, we were invited as guests on a space with our good friends at W3 talking about Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and the hurdles we still have to overcome before it can be commonplace.

Catch up on all the highlights 👇
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👻 The AI got spooky this season.

The ghosts of bad data have spoken.
The memes have been judged.

The Sapien Hallo-Meme Champions have risen. 🧟‍♂️
First, a massive shoutout to @Franklovesnft whose meme made them come in third! You’ll be the proud winner of 500 SAPIEN!

In second place, we have none other than @imakhanhdns ! Coming in hot with a meme that won them a total of 1,000 SAPIEN!

**And last but definitely not least, we have our proud winner of 2,000 SAPIEN, officially the scariest member of the community: @Elon | DragonSlots Massive congratulations to you and thank you for your effort!
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A big thank you to all who have competed. The Sapien event season won’t stop any time soon!

Hey there, Sapiens! Happy Halloween 🎃

Another week done and dusted, and yet another changelog from us to you.

Here’s what’s new:

Released v0.185.0 including:
- Streak multipliers
- Demographic restrictions for tasks
- UX fixes and improvements
- Synchronization of fonts across app
- Bug fixes related to staking and rewards
- New project preparation - car model matching

We will inform you in a separate announcement when the Car Model Matching task has gone live!

Hey

We’ve just launched a new category called SAPIEN CONNECT, where all market-related conversations will live going forward. Inside, you’ll find the new #📊┃market-discussions and we'll be continuing the #🗳️┃poll-of-the-day

We want to keep the #💬┃sapien-general-no-support focused on community topics and meaningful discussions, please move all price talk, market speculation, and token chatter to #📊┃market-discussions. Market talk tends to fluctuate quickly and can clutter the main space, so this will help keep conversations organized and valuable for everyone.

Thanks for helping us keep the community clean, engaging, and easy to navigate! 🤝

“AI actually needs humans more than humans need AI.”

As automation reshapes industries, Sapien reminds us that human intelligence remains essential.

Check out our co-founder Trevor Koverko's featured appearance on NBC: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/video/news/local/amazon-layoffs/3971755/

Layoffs are piling up, raising worker anxiety

Here are some companies that have moved to cut jobs recently.

Hey there, Sapiens!

Happy Friday, and I hope you'll all get to enjoy the weekend!

First of all, an announcement! Next Friday, the 31st of October, at 2:30 pm Eastern Time, join the Sapien team for an in-depth Town Hall for us to show you what we've been up to and to continue the two-way dialogue between us and you, the community members! We will set up a space for that right here, in the Discord!

Prepare your questions, concerns, and feedback!

We will also be making further changes to the Discord set up to make sure the community has a place to enjoy! This includes more regular contests, fun activities, and more focus on you.

This Week in Sapien: 🧠

The contest!
Our Hallo-Meme contest is cooking hard! We’ve seen cute. we’ve seen cursed.
Now we wanna see unholy.

Post your memes in #channel or tag our social media channels with the most cursed AI meme you can come up with. Participants can submit as many memes as they like! Submissions are open until October 30th, with the winner being announced on October 31st!
🏆 Prizes:

🥇 1st Place – 2,000 SAPIEN
🥈 2nd Place – 1,000 SAPIEN
🥉 3rd Place – 500 SAPIEN

New Tasks & Training

To prepare for more task variety, we've been expanding the ways you can prove your skills, with a new Spanish Skill Test live, as well as a task in Bengali! We will release more new tasks to scale with demand! A total of 13 tasks are available right now for your expertise, with new data to tag being added regularly!

Our Voices in the World.

Read from our Head of Product Lauren Mushro on why annotation deserves to be treated as skilled, high-value labor: Jack of All Trades, Master of None — The Data Annotation Gold Rush.

This week’s research articles have been all about the risk of Hallucination in AI.
Find out Why AI Models Hallucinate Missing Context in the first place, how bad training can compound these issues, and how easy it is to be affected by bad data quality.

Our hosted X Space this week went into a deep-dive on Base and how Sapien and our friends in the web3 space use it to build networks for a better future: Base is for Everyone - Episode 4

Catch up on all the highlights 👇
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Hey there, Sapiens!

Reminder not to break your daily streak!
If you’ve finished all your tasks, check back soon! There’s always more to tag.

Here’s what’s live right now: 🚀

• Breakfast Image Upload
• Dinner Image Upload
• Logic Path - Easy/Intermediate/Hard
• Cadena Lógica - Español
• Njia ya Mantiki - Kiswahili
• Đường dẫn lô gic - Tiếng Việt
• বাক্য প্রম্পট করে বাংলা - Bengali Wake Words
• Furniture Classification
• Bug Hunters
• Gastro Tag
• Breakfast Image Bounding Boxes

The more you tag, the faster AI learns. Let’s go again!
https://app.sapien.io/t/dashboard

Hey there, Sapiens!

🚀 New from Sapien’s Head of Product, Lauren Mushro:

Jack of All Trades, Master of None — The Data Annotation Gold Rush.

Everyone’s racing to own the data annotation supply chain.
Few are asking who it’s built for.

Lauren breaks down why annotation deserves to be treated as skilled, high-value labor.

👉 Read her take right here: https://contours-newsletter-c2fdee.beehiiv.com/p/jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none-the-data-annotation-gold-rush-and-the-new-gig-economy-in-ai

Follow Lauren on X for more insightful commentary: https://x.com/laubenjam

Jack of All Trades, Master of None: The Data Annotation Gold Rush

Why the future of AI depends less on scale, and more on the people training the data behind it.

Lauren Benj (@laubenjam) on X

Head of Product @JoinSapien | PhD @JohnsHopkins | "Language transcends us, and yet we speak"
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Hey there, Sapiens!

It's time for our weekly Wednesday changelog so you're following along with what we've been up to!

We have officially released v.0181.0 today, which means that the following features are now LIVE:

• Hotkeys and metrics related to hotkey usage
• User Experience Fixes
• Preparation for future bounding box and wake word projects up on platform
• Release of further skills tests
• Streaks rewards
• Improved QA functionality for batching
• Reduction of prompts for demographic data

We also have a test exclusively in Bengali language for the users who are able to finish the Bengali Proficiency Test! If that's you, give it a try!

Check out what’s new → https://earn.sapien.io/

AI that hallucinates?
That’s spooky.
I bet you can do better.

🎃👻 ANNOUNCING: The first ever Sapien Hallo-Meme Contest!
Make us laugh, scare the intern, and haunt the feed with your funniest scary AI-themed memes.
How to Enter: Post your meme in our all new channel at #channel using the hashtag #channelHalloMeme. You can submit as many as you like! Memes must be original creations or fair-use adaptations of existing meme templates.

If the judging panel likes your meme more than any other ones, you will receive a Token Reward and have your meme be featured for everybody to see on our Socials!

The lucky winners will be announced on Halloween. Will that be you?

Hey there, Sapiens! 🚀

Happy Monday! Please join us tomorrow in exactly 24 hours, at 4pm Eastern Time, for Episode 4 of "Base is for Everyone!"

We'll be talking about how to build networks for a better future with the amazing:

LegacyNetworkio
degentokenbase
heurist_ai
Basenjiofficial

Set your reminders right here: https://x.com/i/spaces/1PlJQOzmMEnKE

Scheduled: Base is for Everyone #4: Building a Network for a Better...

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