What Happened
Nationwide Flight Disruptions Spark Investigation Into Possible AI Link
The US Department of Homeland Security chief, Markwayne Mullin, stated that the nationwide ground stop that halted US departures on Friday afternoon has no apparent connection to the Microsoft 365 outage that began a day earlier. However, a link to the FAA’s new AI traffic-planning tool, known as SMART, cannot be ruled out yet. The FAA said it was expanding its AI system to all 22 of its en route air traffic control centers, and the agency is investigating the cause of the telecommunications outage that affected all of those centers. This was reported by GeekWire.