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FAA Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop After Communications Failure Halted U.S. Flights for Hours

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Updated 9:41 p.m. ET Friday: Duffy blamed the shutdown on aging equipment. “What we have is an incredibly old air traffic control system,” he said at the evening briefing. “Our routers actually got overloaded with data and … they started to give us inconsistency in the data from those routers. And because of that, we shut the system down,” CBS News reported . The FAA has not released a formal technical finding. Disruption carried into the night at several airports. FAA advisories show ground stops limited to specific carriers’ flights: United to Chicago O’Hare ( extended to 10:45 p.m. ET) and Newark ( cancelled at 9:34 p.m. ET), Alaska Airlines to Seattle and San Diego (through 10 p.m. ET), and Delta to Minneapolis-St. Paul (through 10:15 p.m. ET). An FAA operations plan said several of the stops are “at airline’s requests,” that its stakeholder hotlines will stay open overnight, and that the next status update on the national ai...

Google Launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen

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Google announced its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Hydrogen, aimed at bringing “cutting-edge intelligence to everyone.” News broke Wednesday that Google was preparing to launch a new AI model, with the early rumors indicating it could be a Flash-class model. The company has now taken the wraps off , positioning Hydrogen as the model for everyone, providing the speed and efficiency necessary for agentic workflows. Interestingly, while Gemini 4 Argon is designed for deep thinking and reasoning, Hydrogen actually outperforms Argon on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, scoring 51 to Argon’s 50 on high thinking level and scoring 54 on extra high. In real-world software development, while teams rely on frontier models like Carbon and Argon for deep architectural judgment when designing systems or untangling subtle bugs, they still need a fast, disciplined execution model for writing code, running tests, and verifying changes. Hydrogen is built to stand on...

Musk Says It Would Be “an Honor” to Hire Nvidia’s Jensen Huang

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Elon Musk said Wednesday night it would be “an honor” to hire Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, answering a one-line suggestion on X. The markets site ZeroHedge posted “Elon please hire Jensen” at 6:22 p.m. ET. Musk replied two hours later: “That would be an honor.” It is a two-post exchange, not an announcement, and neither Huang nor Nvidia had responded on X as of Wednesday night. That would be an honor — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 12, 2026 Elon Musk’s reply on X, answering ZeroHedge’s post . Credit: Elon Musk (@elonmusk). View on X . The banter lands on one of the tightest supplier relationships in tech. On SpaceXSI’s August earnings call, Musk said, “going forward, we’ve decided to build exclusively on NVIDIA because we think the Vera Rubin architecture is the best architecture.” On Oct. 26, SpaceXSI said it had a binding commitment to enter into a roughly $40 billion lease of GPUs and related equipment with an ...

Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon Is Available to Developers

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Google’s most powerful frontier AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, is now available to developers, significantly expanding its availability. Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon in late October, limiting its availability to a small group of cyber defenders because of its cybersecurity capabilities. The company is now expanding access, according to a blog post. Carbon is designed for sustained agentic workflows, tackling “complex, multi-step problems across software engineering, full-stack web development, scientific research, and shows strong cybersecurity capabilities.” Developers can access Carbon via “the paid tier of the API in Google AI Studio and Android Studio, and Google AI Ultra subscribers can try it in AI Studio and our agent-first development platform, Google Antigravity.” It’s no secret that Google fell far behind Anthropic and OpenAI in the frontier AI race, but the company’s latest models put it back in the running. Carbon ...

Senator Markey Demands Google Decouple AI From Search for Schools

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Senator Edward J. Markey has written a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai demanding the company reverse its plans to disable Search for schools if they disable AI. AI remains a controversial tool, especially where children and education are involved. Teachers and parents are still trying to determine how to help children have a healthy relationship with AI and use it without the potential negative side effects. Unfortunately, as WPN previously reported , Google has coupled Search with AI, disabling the former if schools choose to disable the latter. Needless to say, the plans drew immediate backlash from educators and lawmakers alike. Senator Markey is now weighing in, demanding Google reverse its decision, in a letter shared with WPN: “Just this month, a girl and her family sued Google after Gemini allegedly ‘helped coach her through a plan to commit suicide,’” Markey wrote in his letter. “The girl accessed Gemini through Google Search on a school-issued Chromebook,...

Is In-Person Networking Worth It? with Maria Guerriero

Have you ever thought about attending an in person event... ...maybe a conference or a trade show - where you could meet your ideal clients – the ones you’d really love to help – but then never pulled the trigger because, well, it’s a lot of money and a lot of time and what if nothing comes of it?  Well Episode 564 of the Marketing Mentor Podcast may just motivate you to actually take action next time because there really is nothing more effective than in person networking: showing up live at a gathering where you get to meet your people and they are open and friendly and everyone is connecting and sometimes even learning something new together. That’s exactly what returning guest, Maria Guerriero , owner of Germinate Creative in Portland OR, did last month. And today she shares exactly how she prepped for it and how she is following up – because she knows that the fortune is in the follow up.  Here are the Top 10 Takeaways according to Artificial Ilise: Go where your people...

Godfather of AI Warns of Chernobyl-Like AI Event

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Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of AI,” is warning of a Chernobyl-like AI event, saying humanity has roughly a decade to know whether AI can be safely developed and deployed. Hinton’s work into AI and neural networks is widely credited with laying the groundwork for the modern AI industry and frontier models being developed. Despite his work, Hinton left his job at Google in 2023 to sound the alarm on the dangers the tech poses. In an interview with The Guardian , Hinton struck a hopeful tone, while still emphasizing the inherent dangers involved in developing powerful AI models. Hinton told the outlet that within the next decade, humanity will finally know whether AI can be safely developed in a way that leads to “radical abundance,” or whether “we fail to manage the risks and … have a huge gap between rich and poor, huge cultural problems, massive unemployment, just society being torn apart.” A Lack of Faith in AI Execs Perhaps more concerning is Hi...