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Meta's new business terms may let it scrape news sites for AI training

Meta's updated business terms, effective October 30th, reportedly grant it permission to crawl and scrape websites associated with businesses using its platforms, including online publishers, to develop and train AI products. Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the company is only consolidating its commercial and self-serve ad terms. Legal experts cited by Nieman Lab suggest the terms could let Meta argue its commercial agreements supersede blocking instructions like robots.txt.

The Verge AI2d agoScore 73
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AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models

A new market is emerging in which wind-down services sell defunct startups' code, emails, chats, and documents to AI labs and data vendors for model training. SimpleClosure's Asset Hub has handled over 150 deals and expects to return more than $10 million to startups by the end of 2026, while rival Sunset also resells operational data. Demand grew as AI labs hit limits of public and synthetic datasets, though tests comparing real-world archives with alternatives have not been released. The pract

Why it matters: It reveals a fast-growing, underregulated supply channel for AI training data and the legal and privacy questions it raises.

MIT Technology Review AI5d agoScore 83
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