{"slug": "your-data-built-the-ai-boom-but-big-tech-is-pocketing-100-of-the-equity", "title": "Your Data built the AI boom – but Big Tech is pocketing 100% of the equity", "summary": "Big Tech companies are profiting from user-generated data that fueled the AI boom without sharing equity with the data providers, according to a MarketWatch opinion piece. The author argues that individuals deserve a share of AI wealth and proposes mechanisms to reclaim value from their data contributions.", "body_md": "Article URL: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-share-of-the-ai-wealth-is-a-right-not-a-handout-here-is-how-we-claw-back-our-money-7454b0e0\n\nComments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890738\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-data-built-the-ai-boom-but-big-tech-is-pocketing-100-of-the-equity", "canonical_source": "https://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-share-of-the-ai-wealth-is-a-right-not-a-handout-here-is-how-we-claw-back-our-money-7454b0e0", "published_at": "2026-07-13 10:52:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-13 11:05:04.660052+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["MarketWatch", "Big Tech"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-data-built-the-ai-boom-but-big-tech-is-pocketing-100-of-the-equity", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-data-built-the-ai-boom-but-big-tech-is-pocketing-100-of-the-equity.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-data-built-the-ai-boom-but-big-tech-is-pocketing-100-of-the-equity.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-data-built-the-ai-boom-but-big-tech-is-pocketing-100-of-the-equity.jsonld"}}