News Summary

• Business owners are getting six-figure "exploding offers" that expire in 48 hours to sell their data.
• The data is priced by the terabyte, anonymized, and sold to AI giants.
• Annual spending on data for AI is projected to explode from less than $1 billion last year to almost $6.5 billion in 2027.
• The boom has a darker side.
• Employees rarely profit from — or know about — their Slacks, PowerPoints, and Google Docs being sold to the highest bidder.