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Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired

Eight days after AI agent startup Warmly in late June agreed to be acquired by HubSpot, CEO Maximus Greenwald found an unusual email in his inbox.

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