OpenAI and Anthropic Are Buying Your Industry’s Data. Here’s Why

Here's something that should concern you, no matter what industry you're in.

We've reported that OpenAI and Anthropic are aggressively courting biotech and financial firms to license specialized data — genomics, tax records, proprietary research — to train AI agents capable of doing expert-level work.

Startups are selling their entire code bases to data-labeling firms, which resell them to AI labs to train coding agents.

Think about that for a moment. The companies building the next generation of AI workers are specifically acquiring the knowledge of your industry to replace the most expensive parts of your workflow.

This isn't a future concern. The deals are happening now. The details of who is selling, what's on the market and which AI labs are buying is vital. It's the key to spotting an industry-reshaping shift before it happens.

This is the kind of reporting The Information exists to provide: the business intelligence that sits between hype and reality.

We don't aggregate. We don't summarize press releases. We pick up the phone, read the internal docs, and tell you what's actually happening—before it's packaged for everyone else.

P.S. $299/year works out to about $0.89/day. That's less than your morning coffee and significantly more useful for your career.