Aug 17 2026

Google wins the bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal data at $10 million, outbidding Mercor for roughly 100 million emails and 500 million Teams messages to train AI.

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Customer payment and loyalty data excluded, personal information to be stripped by a third party. Court approval hearing August 19th. The first contested auction of a corporate estate as AI training data.

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