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New York state law takes aim at personalized pricing: Businesses that use personalized pricing are now required to tell customers, "This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data." Read More

Airbus orders software fix to thousands of planes due to solar radiation risk: The company said it's taking action because "analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls." Read More

Black Friday sets online spending record of $11.8B, Adobe says: American consumers spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, according to data from Adobe Analytics, which says it tracks more than 1 trillion visits to U.S. retail websites. Read More

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No, you can't get your AI to 'admit' to being sexist, but it probably is anyway: Though LLMs might not use explicitly biased language, they may infer your demographic data and display implicit biases, researchers say. Read More

VC Kara Nortman bet early on women's sports, and now she's creating the market: As women's sports enters what feels like a sustained boom period -- the Golden State Valkyries just played their first WNBA next season, the NWSL is expanding, media rights deals are growing -- Nortman remains cautiously optimistic about whether this moment will prove different from past surges in interest. Read More

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