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  "id": 19916477,
  "title": "AI company behind FAA's SMART tool denies link to ground stop, Duffy confirms",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/ai-company-behind-faas-smart-tool-denies-link-to-ground-stop-duffy",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-14T04:04:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
    "slug": "the-hill",
    "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/6220416-faa-smart-ai-ground-stop-denial/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Air Space Intelligence (ASI), the company behind a recently deployed Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) AI tool, denied any link to the nationwide ground stop issued Friday afternoon. “The current ground stop is not based on or a result of the SMART system, any product of ASI or our integration with FAA and ATC,” the company...",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Hindustan Times - World News",
        "title": "FAA ground stop: Ex-Transportation Dept. Inspector General questions newly deployed SMART AI tool amid ‘extraordinary’ outage",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/faa-ground-stop-ex-transportation-dept-inspector-general-questions",
        "published": "2026-11-13T22:07:05.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "The FAA announced on November 10 that it has expanded the use of SMART, an AI tool for advising air traffic controllers to manage congestion, across the US (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/the-faa-announced-on-november-10-that-it-has-expanded-the-use-of",
        "published": "2026-11-13T22:10:02.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "ASI, developer of AI tool SMART, says the FAA outage \"is not based on or a result of the SMART system, any product of ASI, or our integration with FAA and ATC\" (Asi/@airspaceintel)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/asi-developer-of-ai-tool-smart-says-the-faa-outage-is-not-based-on-or",
        "published": "2026-11-13T23:35:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Business Insider",
        "title": "FAA SMART AI system vendor and Microsoft both say ground stop isn't their fault",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/faa-smart-ai-system-vendor-and-microsoft-both-say-ground-stop-isnt",
        "published": "2026-11-13T23:49:27.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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