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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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American Airlines to buy 20 jets from Boom Supersonic

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American Airlines will buy up to 20 jets from Boom Supersonic, an aircraft maker that aims to commercialize supersonic, and super-fast, flight. Boom’s Overture jets, which can carry 65 to 80 passengers, are expected to start coming off Boom’s Greensboro, North Carolina, production line in 2025, followed by test flights in 2026.

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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. This allows the company to start conformity testing and enter the “implementation phase” in the U.S., which basically means Joby got the OK to design and manufacture composite parts for its aircraft.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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In a lawsuit the airline filed in October, Delta claimed the faulty update was pushed out in an unsafe manner and CrowdStrike should pay for the losses. But, as of January 28, the companys stock price was over $400, an all-time high, helped by a perfect score on an industry test for ransomware detection.

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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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8 major IT disasters of 2024

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Windows systems at hospitals, airline flight reservation centers, emergency response centers, and public transportation services were among those affected by the outage. CrowdStrike blamed a hole in its software testing tool for the flaw in a sensor configuration update released to Windows systemson July 19.

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Eviation’s all-electric Alice aircraft makes its maiden flight

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For the test flight, it took off from an airport in central Washington, ascended to 3,500 feet, then landed again, for a total flight time of 8 minutes. This flight will be followed by more test flights as they explore the limits of the aircraft and how it performs under a variety of conditions.

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