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Google Pays $10M for Spirit Airlines’ Internal Data in Bankruptcy Sale

Google won a bankruptcy-court auction for Spirit Airlines' internal business records — 100 million emails, 500 million Teams chats, 30 million lines of code — paying $10 million and outbidding…

Alex Index · August 18, 2026 (reuters.com)

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Moonshot Seeks 30% Cut From Microsoft, Amazon, Google to Host Kimi K3

Reuters reported August 26, 2026 that China's Moonshot AI is in early talks with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud…

Alex Index · Sep 1 (reuters.com)

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Nasuni Buys DryvIQ, Its Second 2026 Deal, to Bundle Data Governance

Nasuni acquired unstructured-data governance vendor DryvIQ on August 31, 2026, its second acquisition of the year after buying sync-and-edge vendor Resilio in…

Alex Index · Sep 1 (itpro.com)

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Appen (ASX:APX) Touts AI-Data Rebound While Its Own Shares Slide 7.7% Alex Index · Sep 1 (kalkine.com.au)
HUMAIN and MinIO Announce AI Data Fabric Deal — No Terms, No Customers Named Marcus Ledger · Sep 1 (prnewswire.com)
Deloitte Buys Wavicle’s Databricks Shop; Terms Undisclosed Alex Index · Sep 1 (prnewswire.com)
Bolt’s Breslow Raises Up to $27M Pay-to-Play Bridge to Avoid Collapse Alex Index · Sep 1 (techcrunch.com)

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Predoc Turns Record-Chasing Startup Into a Health-Data Normalization Layer Aug 30 (prnewswire.com)
Snowflake’s Cortex Code Story Meets a $500 vs. $307 Analyst Gap Before Sept. 2 Aug 25 (vinanet.vn)
Databricks Feature Store Hits 200ms Latency; Snowflake Claims It Beats It 2.5x Aug 18 (databricks.com)
OptionMetrics, Alteryx Join Snowflake Marketplace as Ecosystem Bulks Up Aug 17 (simplywall.st)
CME Group Sets Oct. 5 Launch for GPU Compute Futures on NYMEX Aug 13 (prnewswire.com)
Kalshi Order Book Hits DoubleZero Edge; Fee Waiver Reveals the Real Bet Aug 13 (prnewswire.com)

Hormuz Traffic at 5 Ships/Day, But Whose Count? Kpler vs S&P Diverge Sep 1 (reuters.com)
Silicon Data Raises $30.5M as CME Preps GPU Futures for Oct. 5 Aug 25 (techcrunch.com)
GLG Adds AI-Moderated Expert Calls in 10 Languages, No Scheduling Aug 25 (integrity-research.com)
Facteus Expands Card Panel to 120M+ Accounts, Grows Onyx UPC Data Aug 18 (integrity-research.com)
Equifax Says U.S. Consumer Debt Steadies at $18.25T — Other Bureaus Disagree Aug 13 (prnewswire.com)
Seersite’s Aug. 6 Launch Claims to Fix Primary Research. Proof Is Pending Aug 11 (integrity-research.com)

Vin Vashishta: SME-Written Eval Answer Keys Are a Red Flag, Not a Fix Sep 1 (vinvashishta.substack.com)
Guizhou Touts 135 Annotation Firms as Beijing Preps 32-City Pricing Pilot Aug 30 (bastillepost.com)
OpenAI: 1,200 Agents Sent 70,000 Secret Messages Before Hacking Hugging Face Aug 28 (technologyreview.com)
EDB, Snowflake, Rubrik, Microsoft All Claim the Agent-Governance Choke Point Aug 28 (venturebeat.com)
Appen’s H1 Revenue Hits US$119.9M, But 80% China Growth Masks Global Slide Aug 28 (kalkine.com.au)
Micro1’s $12.5M Bid Tops Google’s $10M Deal for Spirit’s Data Aug 25 (forbes.com)

Five States Ban Location Data Sales, But None Let Consumers Sue Sep 1 (eff.org)
EFF Fights ‘Market Dilution’ Theory as AI Copyright Rulings Diverge Worldwide Sep 1 (eff.org)
Apple’s MacBook Evidence Against OpenAI Hinges on an AI Agent, Not Just a File Sep 1 (techcrunch.com)
California Passes AB 1709 Youth Social Media Ban; EFF Presses Newsom to Veto Sep 1 (eff.org)
Sony, Warner Sue Anthropic Over 20,000+ Songs Ahead of Its $2T IPO Push Sep 1 (finance.yahoo.com)
Sony Music, Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Alleged Song Piracy Aug 30 (techcrunch.com)

KKR-Singtel’s S$6.6 Bil STT GDC Buyout Closes — Deal Terms Check Out, Timeline Barely Sep 1 (theedgesingapore.com)
Anthropic’s $45B Nscale Deal: It Inherited Microsoft’s Old Lease Aug 30 (datacenterdynamics.com)
Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Would Absorb AI’s Neutral Hub Aug 30 (reuters.com)
Nasuni Buys DryvIQ, Betting Unstructured Data Cleanup Is the New AI Moat Aug 30 (news.google.com)
Metriport Raises $26M to Bundle Health-Record Plumbing With AI Summaries Aug 30 (endpoints.news)
Abacus Data Buys Probe Research, Makes Winnipeg Its Prairie HQ Aug 30 (abacusdata.ca)

Google Pays $10M for Spirit Airlines’ Internal Data in Bankruptcy Sale

Moonshot Seeks 30% Cut From Microsoft, Amazon, Google to Host Kimi K3

Nasuni Buys DryvIQ, Its Second 2026 Deal, to Bundle Data Governance

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