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ImageWe have sad news: We are following the latest on the midair collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport outside Washington between an American Airlines flight carrying 64 people and a U.S.Army helicopter with three crew members aboard.
No one was believed to have survived the crash, officials said.The C.E.O.of American Airlines has arrived in Washington to help coordinate with the F.A.A.
and the National Transportation Safety Board.Results of the investigation will probably take months.
But the crash raises important questions — some of which were being asked before — about the increasing traffic in the skies above major metropolitan areas, especially in helicopters and drones.That’s expected to rise, given the immense investment in air taxis and drone deliveries.And airlines have lobbied hard in recent years for more slots at Reagan and other major airports around the country.
All that, plus the already dense traffic at busy airports, means radar systems and human pilots have very little room for error.ImageThe A.I.spigot stays onWall Street has been on tenterhooks about how Silicon Valley would respond to DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up whose low-cost artificial intelligence software threatens to undercut the pricey American approach to the technology.So far, the answer appears to be: full steam ahead.Meta and Microsoft, two of the so-called Magnificent Seven group of tech stocks, said they each planned to keep spending billions on A.I.
And news reports about SoftBank’s talks to inject billions more into OpenAI suggest that deep-pocketed investors are still bullish on the ChatGPT creator.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Tim...