# AI companies snap up "sky-high" data: Google in talks to buy Spirit Airlines internal records for tens of millions of dollars, $5,000 per math benchmark question

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- Published: 2026-10-29T14:06:52.000Z
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## Summary

Google offered $10 million to buy the internal records of bankrupt airline Spirit Airlines, including about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, to improve AI models. AI data company micro1 announced it will spend $1 billion over the next 12 months to buy or license operational data from enterprises and build reinforcement learning environments. Mathematicians are paid about $5,000 per question to supply AI with high-difficulty benchmark questions, and about 91% of Mercor's $614 million in first-half revenue came from foundation model companies.