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United Airlines’ AI strategy: The airline that makes decisions fastest wins

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At United Airlines, AI has been a long-term strategic investment, not a recent initiative. This forward-thinking approach stems from a clear business philosophy that in the airline industry specifically, the carrier quickest to make complex decisions gains the competitive edge. Lets take safety, for instance.

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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

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MIT event, moderated by Lan Guan, CAIO at Accenture Accenture “98% of business leaders say they want to adopt AI, right, but a lot of them just don’t know how to do it,” claimed Guan, who is currently working with a large airliner in Saudi Arabia, a large pharmaceutical company, and a high-tech company to implement generative AI blueprints in-house.

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IT leaders see big business potential in small AI models

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Small language models (SLMs) are giving CIOs greater opportunities to develop specialized, business-specific AI applications that are less expensive to run than those reliant on general-purpose large language models (LLMs). Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently lauded one SLM developed by a major airliner he saw in a demonstration in Tokyo.

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Joby Aviation partners with Japanese airline to launch air taxi service

TechCrunch

Joby Aviation is partnering with Japanese airline ANA to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. The startup estimates that a trip from Kansai International Airport to Osaka train station could take less than 15 minutes in one of its vehicles, rather than an hour by car.

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How NTT DATA CIO Barry Shurkey takes a people-first approach to IT success

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Shurkey joined me for a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to discuss his career journey and his approach to developing future-ready leaders. Dan Roberts: We both share a passion for developing ‘the human side of technology.’ Still, take advantage of the diversity of training and thought available to you.

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WestCap and Peter Thiel-backed FLYR Labs closes $150M Series C

TechCrunch

Airlines have a relatively straightforward goal — getting people in seats — but they’ve traditionally relied on inefficient and outdated statistical modeling methods to predict what prices and other conditions will sell tickets. Enter FLYR Labs. Image Credits: FLYR Labs (opens in a new window).

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Revenue Integrity in Airlines: How to Solve Revenue Leakage Problems

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Even before the pandemic, the industry was going through a crisis, so airlines fought hard to track down and close every loophole. Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. Airline revenue leakage. Couldn’t be more relevant, right?

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