{
  "id": 1523767,
  "title": "Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models (James Nani/Bloomberg Law)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/google-wins-a-bankruptcy-auction-with-a-10m-bid-to-acquire",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-17T17:20:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/google-aims-to-boost-ai-with-purchase-of-spirit-airlines-data"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Google has won a bankruptcy auction with a $10 million bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and operations records from Spirit Airlines. The data is intended to improve Google's AI models.\n\nThe acquisition includes a trove of deidentified business data, software code, and operations records from Spirit Airlines.\n\nNo further details on the acquisition or its impact were reported in the provided sources.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}