Technology · Tuesday, 18 August 2026
Google to acquire Spirit Airlines business data for $10 million
Google has won a bankruptcy auction to purchase internal business data from the defunct Spirit Airlines to train its AI models.
TL;DR
Google agreed to pay $10 million for Spirit's employee emails, Microsoft Teams messages, and operational data, beating a $7.5 million bid from AI company Mercor. The acquisition provides Google with a large enterprise dataset to improve its AI products, while Spirit continues liquidating assets following its May shutdown.
Reuters17 Aug, 22:23 BST
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