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.