Comment on FTC chair Lina Khan warns that airlines might one day use AI to find out you're attending a funeral and charge more

At the Fast Company Innovation Festival, Khan, who chairs the Federal Trade Commission, said she launched a market inquiry to better understand the business practice. A family member on the other side of the country has died and you need an airline ticket to go to the funeral. You’ve been handling all of these details on your phone or computer—where nothing is truly private anymore—and when you go to buy that ticket, you’re charged a higher price.

Doritos killed its ‘Crash the Super Bowl’ ad contest before creator culture took hold. Now, the company is bringing it back and wants to see what the internet comes up with. Back in the fall of 2006, Doritos launched its “Crash The Super Bowl” contest, challenging fans to create their own big game Doritos ad.

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More than perhaps any other material, cement is the glue that holds the globalized world together—especially our cities. But producing it requires huge amounts of fossil fuels, and the industry is responsible for up to 8% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, according to a 2023 study in Nature. Efforts to tackle the issue have historically centered on things like fuel and efficiency.