Five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it. All stories from 7 November 2026
AI data brokers are buying old company emails, chats and files to train models, and a sale of Spirit Airlines records is on hold over staff privacy
The emails and chats you sent at work may one day be sold to train an AI, and the firms buying them say the names are stripped out.
OpenAI reportedly raises another $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation as rival Anthropic nears its stock market listing
The Verge· 6 NovThe Verge, citing Bloomberg, reports that OpenAI is now valued at $1.25 trillion after a new round that raised another $11 billion. That follows $122 billion raised in March at an $852 billion valuation. Bloomberg says OpenAI is still seeking more investment that could take the round to $20 billion, having first hoped for as much as $30 billion at $1.4 trillion. Anthropic filed its S-1 to go public last week.
- Avoid long prepaid contracts for any one AI tool, since prices, plans and free tiers are still moving quickly.
- Keep your own copies of important chats, documents and prompts so you can switch tools without losing work.
Source: The Verge. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. Image: OpenAI, from its own announcement. How we source and credit
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