Bipartisan Ohio lawmakers are reviving an effort to regulate pricing algorithms -- software that often uses artificial ...

Online shoppers in New York are now seeing a new warning on product pages thanks to consumer protection legislation that took effect in early November. Particularly noticeable during Black Friday ...

AI offers great benefits to retailers, but using personal data to set individualized prices, called surveillance pricing, faces growing regulatory backlash.

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.

California is poised to be the first state to directly prohibit algorithmic pricing through antitrust law, a move legal experts say could trigger similar legislation across the country. A bill signed ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is warning businesses across the state that they must disclose when algorithms are setting prices based on consumers’ personal data—or face penalties under a ...

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