Ranked: The Most Popular AI Tools in 2026

• ChatGPT drew 5.3 billion web visits in June 2026, more than the next 14 most popular AI tools combined (4.7 billion).
• Google’s Gemini ranks second at 1.1 billion monthly visits, followed by Anthropic’s Claude at 968 million.
• 12 of the 15 most-visited AI tools are American. Canva (Australia), DeepSeek (China), and Magnific (Spain) are the only exceptions.

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Google Wins Bankruptcy Auction for Spirit Airlines Emails, Chats, Documents

• Google won a bankruptcy court auction to buy an extensive internal dataset from Spirit Airlines for $10 million following the airline’s shutdown.
• The acquisition includes roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, spreadsheets, financial databases, and internal documents, which Google will use as training data for its large language models.
• The deal excludes all passenger profiles and frequent flyer accounts, and all enterprise data must be de-identified and scrubbed of personally identifiable information (PII) by a third party before transfer.

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Bezos Consortium Bought Almost 40% of Liverpool

• A group named 1892 Holdings—led by former QPR co-owner Amit Bhatia alongside billionaires Jeff Bezos and Eduardo Saverin—has acquired roughly 38% of Liverpool FC from Fenway Sports Group (FSG).
• While FSG officially announced the sale as a “strategic minority investment,” the deal includes an option for the consortium to buy a controlling stake in Liverpool within the next 12 months.
• The agreement values Liverpool FC between £5bn and £6bn, with Amit Bhatia set to join an expanded board as the club’s new vice-chairman (pending regulatory approval).

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