My favorite being a slight variation of @Lou's own solution
Transpose[{data[[;;, 1, 1]], data[[;;, -1, -1]]}]
you can also use
Transpose@Rest@Extract[data, {{}, {;; , 1, 1}, {;; , -1, -1}}]
or
ReplacePart[data, p_ :> {data[[p, 1, 1]], data[[p, -1, -1]]}]
or
{First@First@#, Last@Last@#} & /@ data
or
ClearAll[f];
f[{{a_, __}, {__, b_}}] := {a, b}
f /@ data
all give