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AI labs buy data from dead startups, repurposing silence as training fuel
Oct 28, 2026SOURCE: technologyreview.com
SO WHAT
In this thousand-day window, “death” is becoming a data pipeline, shrinking creator choice and accelerating intelligence extraction into a few hands.
The old system treats closure as harvestable information. The inversion turns business shutdowns into raw material for models.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.