According to CoinMeta, Google won the auction for Spirit Airlines bankruptcy data for $10 million, which includes approximately 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chat records, and other operational materials. The data is planned to be used to improve products and AI models. A data company named Mercor participated in the auction and offered a final bid of $7.5 million; however, the transaction still requires approval from a U.S. bankruptcy court. In April of this year, the now-defunct Cielo24 sold its 13-years-of-accumulated Slack, Jira, and Google Drive materials for hundreds of thousands of dollars. SimpleClosure was launched to help the defunct company sell its assets and has handled nearly 100 transactions in the past year. This type of business has expanded to include normal operating enterprises; Micro1 has collaborated with 50 companies, with each paying between $100,000 and $2 million in exchange for real business process data. Handshake AI has also begun collecting personal work documents, offering up to $30,000 for them. AI companies steal internal corporate data to train and test AI agents.