Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data. When Shanna Johnson was winding ...

Any entity that is a “business,” as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and that knowingly collects and sells to third parties the personal ...

One person's trash... The race to build more capable AI systems is pushing developers beyond the open web and into a far more intimate source of data: the internal workings of failed startups. As ...

Startups that are shutting down are now selling off their company data, including emails and Slack messages, for as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars to help train AI models. Forbes reports ...

According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software ...

Contractors said in at least five lawsuits that AI training startup Mercor exposed their data to hackers. Mercor said last week it was "impacted" by compromised LiteLLM software. One of the suits ...

On April 1, Slack deactivated all workspaces with billing addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. Both paid and free users lost access instantly — messages, files, channels, integrations, ...

Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image For the modern enterprise, the digital workspace risks descending into "coordination theater," in which teams spend more time discussing work ...

The loss of essential photos or app data can happen on any Android device. It also feels even more stressful, especially if there is no immediate backup. Yet, acting correctly in the first few minutes ...

OpenAI has a Privacy Portal that lets you freely remove your personal data, download a copy, and even request permanent account deletion. So if you're privacy ...