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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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Lilium in talks with Brazilian airline for $1B order

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German electric aircraft startup Lilium is negotiating the terms for a 220-aircraft, $1 billion order with one of Brazil’s largest domestic airlines, the companies said Monday. Should the deal with Azul move forward, it would mark the largest order in Lilium’s history and its first foray into South American markets.

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Aero raises $65M for its semi-private airline

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The company operates a fleet of 16-seat Embrear 135 regional jets and 13-seat Legacy 600 planes (the business version of the Embrear 145) and unlike most of its competitors in this space, the company focuses exclusively on the leisure market. ” The company plans to use the new funding to expand into new markets. In the U.S.,

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

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The last thing any CIO wants is to experience catastrophic operational issues during a peak season, but that’s exactly what executives at Southwest Airlines faced last week. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts. Even before the blizzard hit, Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan acknowledged on Nov.

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Joby Aviation partners with Japanese airline to launch air taxi service

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Joby Aviation is partnering with Japanese airline ANA to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. Joby still needs to get certification in every market it’s trying to enter, but last week it did reach a milestone with the Federal Aviation Administration in the U.S. The air taxi market prepares to take flight.

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Delta Airlines to ‘rethink Microsoft’ in wake of CrowdStrike outage

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In the wake of the widespread outage caused by a defective update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity platform, Delta Airlines is among the first enterprises to come forward to demand compensation from CrowdStrike and Microsoft for the enormous losses caused by the interruption of its flights during the failure.

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Plentina, a ‘buy now, pay later’ startup focused on emerging markets, raises another $2.2M

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Philippines-based Plentina , a buy now, pay later startup focused on emerging markets, announced today it has raised $2.2 These include necessities like food, groceries and education supplies, but also things like airline tickets, gaming and e-commerce. The company will start its international expansion next year. “We

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