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- Delta Airlines has announced the expansion of AI-powered personalized ticket pricing. During a quarterly meeting, executives said the amount of AI-enhanced pricing solutions will move from 3 percent to 20 percent by the end of the year. The practice is called dynamic pricing. AI will predict the popularity of routes. Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego wrote Tuesday on X, “Delta’s CEO just got caught bragging about using AI to find your pain point—meaning they’ll squeeze you for every penny. This isn’t fair pricing or competitive pricing. It’s predatory pricing. I won’t let them get away with this.”
- Who’s ready to party with Barbie again?! Two years after Margot Robbie’s live-action Barbie became a global hit at the box office, the iconic doll is getting another movie! Illumination, the studio behind the Minions franchise, and Mattel Studios are producing the first-ever Barbie animated movie for the big screen. The iconic doll by Mattel has appeared in 52 animated movies and streaming TV films since 2001. No word yet on the plot of this Barbie or any other details revealed. Since 1959, Barbie has held its place as the global category leader in Dolls, with more than 100 sold every minute. Barbie is also the #1 Girls/Dolls’ toy brand on social media.
- Coldplay performed in Madison, Wisconsin over the weekend, their first show since last week’s viral ‘kiss-cam’ moment at Gillette Stadium. So how did they handle the jumbotron segment this time around? Frontman Chris Martin didn’t address the viral video directly – but he winked at it while introducing the bit: “We’d like to say hello to some of you in the crowd and put some of you on the big screen… How we’re going to do that is we’re going to use our cameras and put some of you on the big screen. Please, if you haven’t done your makeup, do your makeup now!” Coldplay will wrap up the current U.S. leg of their ‘Music of the Sphere’ tour this week with stops in Nashville and Miami.
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