Google Wants Spirit Airlines’ Data. A Startup Just Outbid Its $10 Million Offer

Google's $10 million bid to buy old business data from Spirit Airlines so it can use it to train AI has hit turbulence

Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal business data for $10 millionThe package runs to roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Teams items, decades of payroll and crew records, and about 30 million lines of code, with customer and loyalty data excludedHowever the sale has stalled as a flight attendants' union says the privacy terms protect customers rather than employees, and a rival bidder has since offered $12.5 million…

AI startup Micro1 wants to challenge Google's winning bid for Spirit Airlines data with a higher offer

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Google Wants Spirit Airlines’ Data. A Startup Just Outbid Its $10 Million Offer

Experts say Spirit’s records offer something AI companies desperately need: an understanding of how businesses actually work.

Why Spirit Airlines’ internal data has become a hot commodity for AI companies

Spirit Airlines hasn’t flown since May, when the discount carrier announced an “orderly wind-down of operations” as part of bankruptcy proceedings. But the grounded airline might be set for a multimillion-dollar payout from a newly valuable asset: the sale of its corporate data, including internal wikis, emails, source code, and spreadsheets that can be used to train artificial intelligence. Google successfully bid $10 million for the data trove…

‘Adding insult to injury’: Flight attendants accuse Google of creepy deal to access ‘confidential’ data for AI in Spirit Airlines transaction

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Ars Technica: Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data

Ars Technica: Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data. “It may sound like a solid plan if you ever flew on Spirit Airlines and interacted with an employee by email or chat. However, Google’s privacy commitments protecting Spirit customers don’t seem to extend to former Spirit workers. Panicked by the deal, former flight attendants are now rushing to object, worried that Google has not agreed to strip conf…