Academic researchers hijacked the link between two Boeing 737 flight computers with a coin-sized board. The constraint was never budget or code. It was who can reach the nose bay.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence58
United, Southwest and American told Morgan Stanley's Laguna Conference that high fuel means fewer flights and higher fares this winter. Their own CFOs say fuel reaches fares with a lag, so the increase lands on first-quarter bookings.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives65
- Confidence58
The airlines spent weeks asking the FAA to narrow SMART, and the version debuting this month hands controllers route advice at the three Washington-area airports under a 90-day test. The agency's own officials describe it as both record speed and a slow roll.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+33
- Incentives70
- Confidence58
AWS has made the Quick desktop assistant generally available on macOS and Windows and pitched it to IT as the sanctioned answer to shadow AI. It runs in Frankfurt, London and Ireland, and not in the Brandenburg sovereign cloud.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives74
- Confidence55
The argument AWS makes to IT for its newly general desktop assistant is that unapproved tools already move data out of controlled environments, and its answer is audit trails in CloudWatch and CloudTrail plus four named certifications.
Reality
- Evidence26
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+46
- Incentives93
- Confidence62
AWS now ships a first-party catalog for agents, tools, skills and MCP servers, moving the hard part off building them and onto whoever keeps the records current and clears the approval queue, a staffing question as much as a platform one.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives88
- Confidence57
American will put 4K screens at every seat on new narrowbodies from 2028 and add premium seats fleetwide. The driver is a profit gap CNBC puts at about $3bn to United and nearly $5bn to Delta.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives68
- Confidence48