What it is

The pace of dataset releases, benchmarks, and policy updates has accelerated to the point where even specialists struggle to keep up. For teams that buy, evaluate, and ship with data, separating signal from noise—and understanding licensing and compliance—matters as much as model choice.

Dataset News is a regular newsletter with highlights from research and industry. I curate new datasets, releases, benchmarks, and licensing developments, assess credibility and risk, and explain why they matter for teams shipping with data.

Who I am

I’m Michael Gordon, cofounder & CTO at Brickroad. My work focuses on agents that discover, evaluate, and purchase datasets and on operating a permissionless data marketplace. At Brickroad we’ve brokered data deals with top AI labs and advise teams on licensing, annotation, quality, and compliance.

In this newsletter, I draw on that experience to contextualize emerging trends and offer practical guidance on when—and how—to use new data assets.