"$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls"
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auction-because-ai/5288962
Convenient. The European Commission can use this data point to estimate an euro amount value for the cross-subsidy that #Microsoft and #Google gave to their own products by training LLMs over customer data. Ought to be useful for the inevitable fine under the #DigitalMarketsAct, which at this rate should run into the tens of billions of euros per year.
#antitrust #EUpolicy #DMA
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