News Summary

• Startup shutdowns are rising between 26% and 56% annually.
• Tech undertakers are selling the data remains to AI labs.
• Buyers include foundation AI labs, vendors that construct simulated workspaces for AI training, and mature tech companies building their own models.
• Legally, this all could get iffy.
• Ifeoma Ajunwa, a law professor at Emory University and author of The Quantified Worker, says this represents a form of “captured capital.”