Economy Aug 12 How to beat AI-driven custom pricing There are new concerns around how artificial intelligence might be used to set prices for products, such as airfare. It comes after Delta Airlines announced it was using AI to help adjust prices on some of its flights. Tim McPhillips…
Nation Aug 08 WATCH: How to buy plane tickets in the AI era Delta is using artificial intelligence to help set some airfare prices. That has sparked fears that the airline, or any airline in the future, could create a custom price for you, using your data to find how much you would…
Arts Jul 16 ‘John and Jim’ symphony honors marriage equality with its future increasingly in doubt Ten years ago, marriage equality became the law of the land when the Supreme Court ruled in the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges case that state bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional. A symphony piece now honors the love story of…
Arts Jun 20 Carla Hayden on her time as a pioneering librarian of Congress and getting fired by Trump Dr. Carla Hayden, a trailblazing librarian of Congress, was fired by President Trump in May. Geoff Bennett recently spoke with her about being blindsided by the decision, the administration’s ongoing efforts to reshape key institutions and why she intends to…
Nation Jun 06 Jacinda Ardern on keeping empathy in politics and new memoir, ‘A Different Kind of Power’ At 37 years old, Jacinda Ardern was the world’s youngest female head of government when she became prime minister of New Zealand. She was also just the second to give birth while in office and led her nation through crises,…
Nation Jun 01 World Pride celebrations in nation’s capital bring mix of joy and anxiety World Pride, the international LGBTQ+ celebration, is underway in Washington, D.C. against the backdrop of the Trump administration rolling back LGBTQ+ rights and protections, particularly for transgender people. June Crenshaw, deputy director of the Capital Pride Alliance, joins John Yang…