@pro.glitch: Every U.S. departure stopped. Here are the dots · FAA ground stop: the AI, Microsoft, and what we know Major news: the FAA stopped every U.S. departure Friday afternoon. The FAA calls it a temporary telecommunications outage at the centers that guide planes at cruising altitude. Three days earlier, the FAA said its new AI tool, SMART ($875M contract, Air Space Intelligence), was live across all 22 of those centers. The company says the ground stop is "not based on or a result of" SMART. The day before, Microsoft went down worldwide, and officials say there's no link. Coincidence? Maybe. Nobody knows yet. We'll find out soon.

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Saturday 14 November 2026 00:13:12 GMT