Southwest Airlines aircraft have been involved in several recent alarming incidents, forcing safety to the forefront, even as a corporate skirmish is primed to escalate.
Why it matters: There's no indication yet that mechanical trouble caused or contributed to any of the incidents, a stark reminder that human factors are key to flight safety — even with so much focus on production and maintenance issues after Boeing's door plug blowout earlier this year.
A new kind of turf war is breaking out on the web, with AI bots battling other AI bots to seize or defend stockpiles of the AI era's most valuable commodity: data.
The big picture: AI makers hungry for more data to train their language models are grabbing everything they can, while information owners are increasingly fighting fire with fire by turning to AI-powered tools to protect their intellectual property.
