Google Buys $10 Million Spirit Airlines Data Trove to Power AI Models, Raising Major Privacy Questions

The collapse of an airline has created an unusual test for the future of artificial intelligence: Can a bankrupt company sell years of workplace data to an AI company, and does removing names make that information truly private? Google’s agreement to pay $10 million for a large enterprise dataset from bankrupt Spirit Airlines has placed that question before a U.S. bankruptcy court. The transaction…