Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines’ internal data. $10 million, outbidding Mercor at $7.5 million. Wha…
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Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines’ internal data. $10 million, outbidding Mercor at $7.5 million. What’s in it: 100 million employee emails, 500 million Teams messages, 30 million lines of code, payroll records going back to 1986. No customer data — profiles, loyalty accounts, and card numbers were all scrubbed first. Mercor’s whole business is training data. They pay 30,000 experts to create it. The company that manufactures data thought buying it was the better deal. Here’s…
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