Could everything be broken? Grounded jets, Microsoft outage, AI chaos make some wonder
Visitors to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center observation tower watch an airplane as it prepares to land at Washington Dulles International Airport after the Federal Aviation Administration lifted nationwide ground stops in Chantilly, Va., Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Maybe the trouble started with the AI billionaire and the Silicon Valley chaos that followed talk of his infidelity, including with an alleged Chinese spy. Or maybe it was the Microsoft outage that, depending on how you looked at it, either cast millions of frustrated workers adrift or spared them from a daily, unrelenting electronic avalanche.
But by Friday afternoon, when U.S. aviation authorities ordered the grounding of planes across the country, it felt to many that something was up. Something was broken.
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