Data deals: Week 44, 2026 (26 Oct to 1 Nov)
3 deals announced this week. ✓ Reviewed: read and analysed by Gianluca. Others are short summaries of the public record.
- 2026-10-29 · Anthropic · Authors Guild
Anthropic to pay $1.5B to settle authors' class action over pirated books used to train Claude
Anthropic agreed to pay approximately $1.5 billion to settle a class action brought by authors over books downloaded from LibGen and PiLiMi to train its Claude chatbot. Approximately 500,000 eligible titles will receive about $3,000 each, with initial payments to claimants scheduled for the week of November 23, 2026.
- 2026-10-28 · RaceTrac Inc.
RaceTrac launches Trac Media Group retail media network across more than 600 locations✓
RaceTrac Inc. launched Trac Media Group in October 2026, a retail media network across more than 600 RaceTrac convenience store locations that sells brands fuel-pump, checkout and digital placements measured against RaceTrac Rewards loyalty data, with planned expansion to RaceWay, Gulf and Potbelly.
- 2026-10-28 · Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (Diagnostics Accelerator) · Eli Lilly and Company
ADDF's Diagnostics Accelerator licenses SpeechDx dataset to Eli Lilly for Alzheimer's research
On 28 October 2026 the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation's Diagnostics Accelerator announced that Eli Lilly and Company had licensed its SpeechDx dataset, a longitudinal collection of speech and biomarker data, to investigate the utility of speech as a tool for Alzheimer's research.