Inside airlines’ panic as FAA pushed new AI tool

J. David Ake/Getty ImagesPOLITICO reports airlines are cautious but optimistic about an AI tool for airspace management.The tool aims to reduce flight delays by predicting and managing airspace congestion.Confusion over the FAA's vague description of its much-hyped plans eased in the past week.Airline industry officials have finally stopped panicking about the Federal Aviation Administration's soon-to-launch artificial intelligence tool for managing flights and easing congestion in air travel, multiple people familiar with the situation told POLITICO.Weeks of industry confusion over the FAA's vague description of its much-hyped plans eased in the past week when agency officials told them they would use the tool in just a limited way at first, said the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal conversations.The tool, dubbed Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories, or SMART, is set to debut in coming days, offering advice to air traffic controllers managing flights for the three airports that serve the nation's capital, according to two industry officials.

Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there’s no ROI in that

One of the main motivations for quitting Microsoft 365 and adopting Google Workspace is spite, an emotion that sadly doesn’t produce a return on investment. The source of that disappointing news is Domenico Scriva, a senior principal analyst at Gartner, who today told the firm’s IT Symposium event in Australia that moving between the suites is also unlikely to save buyers much money.

BOFH: Oh no! The CMS ate 500 pages of corporate documentation

EPISODE 17 The new Boss is keen to acquire knowledge. So keen that he wants a quick rundown on our content management system so he can avail himself of our copious workplace documentation. "WELL," I say, bracing myself for a long session, "first things first, you'll need to get a strong coffee." "Why?" "Because our CMS is a place where documents go to die." "Surely it can't be that-" "Oh, it's bad.

I was a working mom at Amazon who struggled to relax. After I was laid off, I went all in on wellness.

Rania Zheng went all in on her wellness-travel business after being laid off by Amazon.Rania ZhengRania Zheng struggled to relax while working at Amazon, so she sought out holistic wellness practices.She was laid off in October 2025 and turned her wellness interest into a full-time business.Rania's business offers curated trips in China focusing on different wellness themes.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rania Zheng, a 34-year-old former senior technical product manager at Amazon living in Bellevue, Washington.

AWS: DuckDB will provide ‘connective tissue’ across the data estate

Last week, AWS bought DuckLabs, the people behind the open source OLAP system DuckDB. Since the cloud giant already owns a data warehouse – in Redshift – and it doesn’t get the DuckDB intellectual property (it remains open source), then why would it bother? Andy Warfield, AWS VP and Distinguished Engineer, argued the acquisition is a major plank of AWS’s thinking when it considers the future of application building, data, and analytics.

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I’m a marketer who fell into the ‘empire-building’ trap. Now I know a bigger head count doesn’t mean better marketing.

Colin Piper, CMO of BuildOps, said he fell into an 'empire-building' trap.Courtesy of Colin PiperA version of this post appears in the CMO Insider newsletter.Sign up for Business Insider's weekly marketing newsletter.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Colin Piper, CMO of BuildOps, an AI platform for commercial contractors. Prior to that, he spent more than 10 years at Autodesk, eventually leading a large marketing team for its construction business vertical.

£37M SAP overhaul could extend Capgemini’s run with UK tax collector to 28 years

The UK's tax collector has awarded Capgemini a £37 million contract to help migrate a critical tax system from SAP's legacy ECC platform to S/4HANA, extending a supplier relationship that began in 2004. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has hired the French IT services company to move the Enterprise Tax Management Platform (ETMP) from SAP ECC 6.0 to its successor, S/4HANA, a completely re-engineered application platform.

SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims

SAP consultant job ads across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland typically quote salaries 10 to 12 percent above the eventual offer, according to a recruitment firm specializing in the market. Employers seeking SAP consultants include IT services firms, management consultancies, and large companies overhauling their technology estates. Research into hiring across the ERP vendor's European heartland suggests that the salary advertised may exceed the offer ultimately made to the successful candidate.

Career regrets: 10 tech workers share what they wish they’d done differently

Aimen Moten (left) Nikhil Singh (center), and Abhinav Bohra (right) shared their biggest career regrets with Business Insider.Aimen Moten (left) Nikhil Singh (center), and Abhinav Bohra (right)Tech workers shared their biggest career regrets with Business Insider.Some wished they'd embraced AI sooner or explored different career paths.Others regretted missed job opportunities or staying too long at one company.Ask a tech worker about their biggest career regret, and they might have a hard time picking just one.In a fast-changing, highly competitive industry, it's easy to second-guess career decisions — and wonder whether another path might have been the better one.In interviews with Business Insider, tech professionals from companies including Amazon, Google, and Meta reflected on the career decisions they wish they'd handled differently.