Data deals: Week 33, 2026 (10 Aug to 16 Aug)

2 deals announced this week. ✓ Reviewed: read and analysed by Gianluca. Others are short summaries of the public record.

• 2026-08-14 (filed) · Google · Spirit Airlines

  Google wins $10M bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' enterprise data and code to train AI models✓

  Google won an Aug 14, 2026 bankruptcy auction for defunct Spirit Airlines' corporate data at $10M, beating Mercor's $7.5M backup bid. The scope covers ~100M emails, ~500M Teams chats, ~30M lines of code and ~3.4M payroll records across ~80,000 accounts, with passenger and loyalty PII carved out and a third party de-identifying before transfer.

• 2026-08-12 · CuriosityStream

  CuriosityStream Q2 2026 press release discloses $14.1M licensing revenue driven by AI training partnerships✓

  CuriosityStream disclosed $14.1M in Q2 2026 licensing revenue on August 12, up 48% year-on-year at 72.8% gross margin, selling rights-cleared video, audio and an 880B-token private code corpus to AI labs. Full-year guidance was raised to $77-82M. The same factual-media archive that earned inside an SVOD subscription is now priced directly against a foundation-model buyer.