California drivers sue BP, Marathon, and Walmart over AI gas price-fixing

A proposed class action claims the companies used an AI tool from Kalibrate to coordinate prices at more than 1,700 California stations

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California drivers have filed a proposed class action against BP $BP, Marathon $MPC, Walmart $WMT, and other major gas station operators, alleging they used an artificial intelligence pricing tool to fix pump prices across the state, according to Reuters.

At the center of the case is a pricing tool developed by a company called Kalibrate, which the complaint says harvests data from rival stations to push prices higher — a practice the drivers argue violates........

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