Facebook acknowledged in an investigation that it is collecting publicly available data from all adult users in Australia. The company does not provide an opt-out option for Australians as it does for EU citizens, as privacy laws do not require it to do so.

At the 2024 WAIC Scientific Frontier Main Forum, the OpenDataLab team from the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Shanghai AI Lab) launched a new intelligent data extraction tool called MinerU. This tool aims to simplify the AI data processing workflow and assist AI researchers in extracting high-quality data from vast amounts of documents.