Google buys a dead airline’s data for $10 million, but here’s what it’s not getting

Google has won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines’ internal business data with a $10 million bid, beating AI firm Mercor, and says the trove will help train its AI models. The company clarified it is not buying customer or credit card information. Filings list 100 million emails, 500 million Teams chats and 30 million lines of code. A judge considers the Spirit Airlines data sale on August 19.