Companies on their last legs are liquidating an unexpected asset: their digital footprint. From old Slack messages to emails, it’s becoming training data for the next generation of AI.

AI labs trained their models on the public internet, but they quickly exhausted that information. And in order to build AI that can actually do work, it needs examples of day-to-day operations. Startups like SimpleClosure and Sunset are turning that need into a business, though others have raised privacy concerns.

“There’s a feeling of a gold rush from these [AI] companies trying to get their hands on real-world data,” says SimpleClosure’s CEO Dori Yona.

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Netflix announced that cofounder Reed Hastings will step down from the company’s board as the entertainment giant reported earnings that beat expectations.

The White House is planning to provide Anthropic’s limited release Mythos AI model to federal agencies, despite the firm’s recent dispute with the Department of Defense.

In a potential breakthrough for future peace talks with Iran, President Donald Trump announced that Lebanon and Israel have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire.

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