The AI-data category spans a steep moat gradient that its collective label obscures. Toll‑booths sit at the top—proprietary data fused to sticky professional workflows (legal research, credit ratings, financial data) that no AI firm can relabel; a court affirmed this when a legal‑data giant beat

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