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Australia’s national carrier is preparing to launch new 10,000-mile flights that could last up to 22 hours nonstop — and it needs a custom Airbus jet with extreme endurance to pull them off.After years of delays, Qantas last week finally unveiled the centerpiece of its “Project Sunrise” initiative: a specially…

For the past year, Silicon Valley has been obsessed with “tokenmaxxing” — the idea that maximizing AI usage (and therefore token consumption) should make workers more productive.Charles Holive is measuring something else entirely.The chief AI officer at BNP Paribas CIB, the investment banking arm of one of Europe’s largest banks,…

There are approximately 8,000 “end-of-life retired aircraft” sitting in deserts, jungles, and storage yards across the globe. Another 11,000 planes are expected to join them over the next 10 years.These “graveyards” started filling up during the COVID-19 pandemic when airlines had to make drastic cost-cutting changes, including furloughing pilots, cutting…