Google Buys Spirit Airline’s Old Data For $10 Million

Google’s $10 million Spirit Airlines data purchase highlights growing demand for real-world enterprise data to train AI, while companies seek legally acquired information instead of synthetic or pirated sources.

By John Werner, Contributor

Google's bid for Spirit's data is a reminder that your work emails aren't really yours

Spirit Airlines employed around 9,700 employees in 2025. Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images Google bid $10 million for corporate data from Spirit Airlines, which shut down earlier this year. The data includes emails and messages. It excludes customer data and has been anonymized, Google said. Attorneys told Business Insider it's a reminder that work data isn't private. Long after the goodbye cake is gone, you could still be valuable to your employer. The digital trail that ...

Why Google just paid $10 m for Microsoft Teams chats of a dead and bankrupt airline

Google has won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal data, paying $10 million for roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, 30 million lines of code and 175,658 employee records. The defunct airline's archive shows how work actually happened, step by step, which is exactly what AI agents need. But the fine print on the promised anonymisation deserves a closer look.

By TOI TECH DESK

LG, Nvidia target 100,000 hours of humanoid training data

LG Electronics is stepping up its robotics partnership with Nvidia, accelerating efforts to build training data for humanoid robots. Madison Huang, Nvidia's senior director of product marketing for omniverse and robotics and the eldest daughter of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, visited LG Electronics' Yangjae research and development campus in southern Seoul on Tuesday to inspect the company's robotics data factory. Her visit came four days after LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and Jensen Huang signed

By The Korea Herald

Google wins $10M bid for Spirit Airlines’ business data to improve AI models - report

Google to buy Spirit Airlines business data for $10 million

Alphabet's Google is acquiring ​internal business data from bankrupt ‌Spirit Airlines for $10 million, saying it plans to use the data ​for product development and ​training its AI models.

By Abubakar Ibrahim