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1. Article · Aug 23, 2026 · Sandy Carter, Contributor

   AI Data Wars Begin As Google, Mercor And Micro1 Bid For Spirit’s Data (opens the original)

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   The fast facts are that Google bid $10 million for data, beating AI training company Mercor's $7.5 million offer, for roughly 100 million Spirit Airlines emails, 500 million Teams messages, 30 million lines of code and employee records reaching back to 1986. AI startup Micro1 lobbed in a late bid of $12.5 million after the deadline. Micro1 is a young AI training startup, founded by CEO Ali Ansari, that matches talent and real-world data to companies building machine learning models. It submitted

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2. Article · Aug 9, 2026 · Sandy Carter, Contributor

   KPMG Says Nearly Half Of Executives Pulled Back AI Agents Over Cost (opens the original)

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   A statistic lit up social media. Nearly half of executives have delayed or scaled back AI agent deployments after costs exceeded benefits, according to KPMG. Prediction market Polymarket amplified the number alongside its market putting the odds of an AI bubble burst by year end at roughly fifteen percent. It is drawn from KPMG's Global AI Pulse for the second quarter of 2026, a survey of 2,145 senior leaders across 20 countries at organizations with more than $50 million in annual revenue. In i

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