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Forbes Daily: Google Wants To Use Spirit Airlines’ Data To Train AI

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Google acquires Spirit Airlines' internal business data for $10 million to train AI models

Alphabet's Google won a bankruptcy auction to purchase internal business data from defunct Spirit Airlines for $10 million, including approximately 600 million messages, over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, and other enterprise communications. The company plans to use the data for product development and AI model training.

Aug 17, 2026·9 sourcesAI data privacy & biometric surveillanceAI copyright & training dataBusiness & enterprise AI
Google acquires Spirit Airlines' internal business data for $10 million to train AI models
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