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The FAA lifted a nationwide ground stop Friday after more than four hours of travel chaos affecting airports across the country. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was quick to rule out a cyberattack, pointing instead to aging hardware as the culprit. It's a striking reminder that some of the most critical infrastructure holding modern life together is running on decades-old systems nobody got around to replacing.
Shifting to a story that sits at the intersection of finance and artificial intelligence, Sam Bankman-Fried's stake in Anthropic would have been worth nearly forty billion dollars had he not been convicted of fraud. The figure emerges as Anthropic moves toward a public offering, and it underscores just how valuable the AI sector has become — even as the man who might have profited most sits in a federal prison cell.
And in quieter corporate news, the Australian platform Airtasker disclosed a third-party security incident dated November two thousand twenty six. Details remain sparse, but the breach highlights a pattern that keeps repeating across the industry — companies securing their own walls while a vendor door quietly swings open.
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