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Today’s three stories: The Fed held rates steady, Tinder wants AI poking through your camera roll, and Hollywood is now casting the dead.
So, you know, another perfectly normal day in America.
We start with the Federal Reserve trying to look calm while standing in the middle of inflation worries, war jitters, and gas-price anxiety.
Then Tinder shows up with a feature that says, in effect, “Let us study your photo library and explain your romantic failures.”
And finally, a generative-AI version of Val Kilmer is headed to the screen,because apparently, even eternal rest now comes with studio notes.
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Associated Press — Federal Reserve holds rates steady amid inflation and Iran conflict concerns
New York Post — Tinder’s AI camera roll scan sparks backlash
Associated Press — AI-rendered Val Kilmer to appear in new film