Extra, Extra
Equal Pay: “The practice — supported by artificial intelligence and known as dynamic pricing or surveillance pricing — can lead to two consumers paying different amounts for the same item from the same retailer, at roughly the same time. If a store knows, for example, that one of those customers lives in a wealthier neighborhood, it can charge that person a higher price.” NYT (Gift Article): Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores.
+ Maximum Sentence: “Author Daniel Kraus won in the fiction category for his book Angel Down, a story of World War I soldiers who find a fallen angel amongst the dead in No Man’s Land – a tale Kraus relates entirely within one sentence. Among other winners in the books categories were historian Jill Lepore for We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution and Brian Goldstone for There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.” Here are the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners.
+If You Build It… “With only six weeks to go before the start of the World Cup, hotels at most of the cities hosting the tournament are facing a major problem: Bookings are running far below what they had expected.” (Hmm, I wonder why people aren’t excited to come visit?)
+ Hot Error: “The contrast with the United States is stark. Under President Trump, energy policy has swung back toward oil and natural gas. In the past six weeks, the Trump administration has moved to spend nearly $2 billion reimbursing energy companies for abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms. This week, a leading renewable energy group said the administration has stalled more than 150 wind farm projects by delaying military reviews once considered routine.” China’s Big Bet on Wind Power Is Paying Off.
+ Vlad Handing: “An announcement by the Trump Administration that the United States would withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany has shaken America’s European allies, but it may just be the beginning of a much wider withdrawal.” Time: The U.S. Military Drawdown in Europe Has Only Just Begun.
+ Flava Fave: WSJ (Gift Article): Trump Pressures FDA Commissioner to Approve Flavored Vapes. “In a series of weekend calls while in Florida and conversations at the White House on Monday, Trump sought advice from his advisers about Makary and the importance of flavored vaping to young MAGA voters.”
