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Defunct startups are liquidated for their Slack archives

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Defunct startups are now being liquidated for their chat archives, ticket queues and email threads as premium training data, reincarnating failed companies as weights.

Reporting date: 2026-04-17 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to April 17, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to April 17, 2026

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A wool sneaker maker sells for $39M and becomes a GPU cloud

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Welcome to April 17, 2026

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Defunct startups are liquidated for their Slack archives
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-04-17
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-17-dead-companies-mined-for-training-data
Claim: Defunct startups are now being liquidated for their chat archives, ticket queues and email threads as premium training data, reincarnating failed companies as weights.
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- Welcome to April 17, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-17-2026
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