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Data valueSold short: why so many owners part with their data for less than it is worth
The books say a company's data is worth nothing, and people price their own data by how the question is asked. Buyers know better.
Life sciencesA health-records AI model holds up in hospitals it was never trained on
Researchers pretrained a model on records from four health systems and tested it on two others, measuring what screening would really look like.
Lost and foundWhen a startup closes, its code and conversations now have buyers
Firms that help startups shut down now sell what is left behind: the code, the documents and the working records. The prices are real, and so are the pitfalls.
Policy and lawEU governments agree their line on simpler data rules, with AI and research in view
The Council's position on the Digital Omnibus keeps the GDPR's definition of personal data, eases research and AI development, and folds Europe's data-sharing laws together.
AI and training dataEurope's privacy regulators tell AI scrapers to stay away from sites that say no
As consultation on their web-scraping guidelines closes, Europe's data protection authorities set out what AI developers must do before they collect from the open web.
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Data valueA rare public price for health data: what one patient record is worth
A filing with the US markets regulator puts a figure on de-identified patient records, and it is rarely this plain.
Policy and lawA US appeals court says the market for AI training data is real
The first federal appeals ruling on AI training and fair use treats licensing data for training as a market an owner can lose.
Policy and lawUS regulator asks nine companies how personal data sets their prices and pay
The Federal Trade Commission wants to know whether what companies know about you changes what you pay, and what gig workers earn.
AI and training dataWhy old code is the hottest data in AI right now
AI teams want code that people wrote before AI started writing it. Many companies have years of it sitting in their repositories.
Data valueLease, license or sell: what each means for your data
Three ways to work with a buyer. The difference is who keeps a copy, for how long, and who owns it afterwards.
Lost and foundWhat happens to a company's data when it closes
The archive outlives the company. Code, drawings and records often sit untouched on servers long after the last day of trading.
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Data valueInvestors tell accounting's standard setter: explain intangible assets before you book more of them
Research for the rewrite of IAS 38 finds users of accounts prefer better disclosure to putting more home-grown intangibles, data among them, on the balance sheet.
Data valueHidden in plain sight: the US starts counting what companies spend on their own data
A new estimate from the US national accounts treats a company's own data as an investment. The sums are large, and almost none of it shows on a company's balance sheet.
Data valueCanada finds companies make almost all the data they use, and buy very little
A Statistics Canada study counts data as the largest single kind of intangible investment in the Canadian business sector.
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MarketsA publisher now earns from licensing other publishers' work to AI
Wiley's annual report shows AI licensing growing, with a large part of it now coming from content it licenses on behalf of others.
MarketsAI licensing lifts an academic publisher's year
Bloomsbury's results show its academic and professional division growing on the back of licensing content for AI, a year after its first such deal.
MarketsA licensed-data marketplace joins the plumbing of the web
Cloudflare buys Human Native, a UK marketplace that turns content into licensed training data, and folds it into the network that sits in front of much of the web.
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AI and training dataWhy AI still needs data made by people
AI teams are running short of good human-made data, and the open web is closing its doors. Licensed company data is one of the few new sources left.
AI and training dataPublishers agree a common language for licensing content to AI
Really Simple Licensing 1.0 lets a website state, in a form machines can read, how AI may use its work and on what terms.
AI and training dataEurope sets the form AI developers must use to describe their training data
The European Commission publishes the template general-purpose AI models must fill in under the AI Act, with its own place for licensed data.
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Policy and lawTaking personal data out before a sale
AI buyers want what your data shows about the work, not about people. Here is what taking personal data out really means.
Policy and lawEngland's High Court rules a trained image model is not a copy of its training pictures
Getty Images loses its remaining copyright claim against Stability AI in the first full UK trial over building an AI model.
Policy and lawEurope's Data Act takes effect, giving users a claim on the data their machines make
From today, people and businesses that use connected products in the EU can ask for the data those products generate.
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Lost and foundLost in time: how company and research data quietly disappears
Nobody deletes it on purpose. It simply stops being looked after, and one day it is gone.
Lost and foundThe Wayback Machine passes one trillion saved web pages
The Internet Archive marks a milestone in saving the web, and a reminder of how much of it would otherwise be gone.
Lost and foundA law library saves a copy of every dataset on data.gov
Harvard's Library Innovation Lab releases an archive of the US government's public datasets, signed so each file can be proved genuine.
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ImpactGiving data for good: where tax relief applies, and where it doesn't
Some data does the most good given away. In a few countries the gift can also bring a tax deduction, and in many it brings none.
ImpactWhen company data saved lives
Three times ordinary company data, made for something else, ended up doing public good.
ImpactSatellites find most of the world's industrial fishing fleet is not publicly tracked
Combining satellite images with vessel GPS records revealed activity at sea that neither source showed alone.