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Virgin Atlantic CEO Corneel Koster outlines where artificial intelligence can improve the airline experience and where human interaction remains central, particularly in premium travel. His perspective offers a view into the technology, service and strategic choices shaping the carrier’s future.
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Virgin Atlantic CEO Corneel Koster outlines where artificial intelligence can improve the airline experience and where human interaction remains central, particularly in premium travel. His perspective offers a view into the technology, service and strategic choices shaping the carrier’s future.
Google and an AI-training startup reportedly bid for data from Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy auction, underscoring the growing value of distressed companies’ operational and commercial records. The development highlights how bankruptcies are creating unusual data sources for training models intended to support real-world business decisions.
The Navy unveiled RTX’s AIM-424 Malice, a long-range air-to-air missile reported to exceed 250 nautical miles, while a B-2 demonstrated a precision-guided air-launched anti-ship weapon and unmanned boats surveyed and engaged targets. The service is also seeking a new air-launched torpedo for submarine warfare.
A Russian Molniya drone reportedly navigated and selected its target entirely through artificial intelligence in a strike that killed three civilians in Ukraine. The reported use of autonomous targeting in an active conflict raises significant questions about drone development, operational control and civilian protection.
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SpaceX reportedly acquired xAI in an all-stock transaction valuing the combined company at $1.25 trillion, a figure that would make it the largest merger on record. The reported deal brings a major launch provider and an artificial-intelligence company under common ownership.
All Nippon Airways is introducing remotely controlled “newme” robots to answer passenger questions at Japanese regional airports with limited staffing. The deployment reflects how airlines are using telepresence and automation to maintain customer-service coverage as Japan’s workforce shrinks, without requiring permanent personnel at every station.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby outlined his views on potential large-scale airline transactions, the role of artificial intelligence and the carrier’s strategic direction in a wide-ranging CNBC interview. The discussion offers insight into how United is framing consolidation and technology as it plans for the future.
Saab displayed a full-scale mock-up of its A3 autonomous combat-aircraft concept, designed to complement Gripen E and other fighters in combat, deep-strike and electronic-warfare missions. The company says the high-end unmanned system could also influence its next crewed combat aircraft, while GKN Aerospace has demonstrated a newly developed Swedish turbojet.
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