American Airlines will provide inflight Wi-Fi for free starting next year

American Airlines has announced plans to finally offer free Wi-Fi on flights. The company said that its AT&T-sponsored program will start offering free, high-speed Wi-Fi "across more than 2 m [...]

Kai-Fu Lee's brutal assessment: America is already losing the AI hardware war to China

China is on track to dominate consumer artificial intelligence applications and robotics manufacturing within years, but the United States will maintain its substantial lead in enterprise AI adoption [...]

Teamsters urge DOJ to block Paramount's Warner Bros. merger

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that covers warehouse workers, drivers and a diverse collection of other laborers, has come out against Paramount Skydance's merger with Warn [...]

Alaska Air will offer Starlink in-flight internet starting next year

In-flight internet is crappy, but more and more airlines think that Starlink is the solution. The latest company to sign with the SpaceX affiliate is Alaska Air Group, which announced that it will sta [...]

Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies

Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more [...]

Antitrust head overseeing Netflix-Warner merger resigns

The head of the antitrust division is out at the US Department of Justice. Gail Slater, a former JD Vance adviser and Fox Corp VP, reportedly clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi. Their longstandin [...]

American Airlines stock sinks after it says a United merger isn't happening

The Fort Worth-based carrier called a potential combination with United "negative for competition and for consumers" [...]

Hopper's AI agent can book flights and cancel trips without human help

Hopper Technology Solutions launched a breakthrough artificial intelligence system Wednesday that can autonomously handle complex travel customer service issues from start to finish, a major advance i [...]

United Airlines' new rule could make people miss their flights

If you aren’t checking bags, you’re going to need to start showing up to the airport a little earlier if you’re flying United Airlines.Read more... [...]