Algorithms that set prices for vending machines, apartment rents, and hotel rooms are drawing federal antitrust scrutiny as regulators argue these systems can function like old-fashioned cartels, even ...
Bipartisan Ohio lawmakers are reviving an effort to regulate pricing algorithms -- software that often uses artificial ...
AI offers great benefits to retailers, but using personal data to set individualized prices, called surveillance pricing, ...
If you're shopping online and see one price, then come back later and see a different price, it’s likely due to a pricing algorithm. The computer program factors in supply, demand and competitors' ...
(NewsNation) — What you pay for a Delta Air Lines ticket may soon depend less on timing and more on what an algorithm thinks you’re willing to spend. About 3% of Delta’s domestic ticket prices are now ...
ATLANTA — Pricing algorithms in two major software programs utilized by landlords are costing metro Atlanta renters more than $180 a month, according to data in a White House report published Tuesday.
This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Earlier this year, a slightly balding man in spectacles, a black T-shirt, and bright high-top ...
Bipartisan Ohio lawmakers are reviving an effort to regulate pricing algorithms, software that often uses artificial intelligence to manipulate prices, rent and wages in order to maximize a company's ...