California Consumers Sue Walmart, BP, and Others Over AI-Driven Gas Price Manipulation
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Leah Nylen
Summary
A group of California consumers has filed a lawsuit accusing major gas station operators—including Walmart, Marathon Petroleum, BP, and 7-Eleven—of using an AI pricing tool from Kalibrate Fuel Systems Ltd. to illegally manipulate gasoline prices. The complaint, filed in federal court in Sacramento, alleges that the companies use AI to automatically adjust prices based on confidential data, contributing to prices that have exceeded $7 per gallon in some areas of California, which already has the highest gas prices in the US.
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The companies, which operate more than 1,700 filling stations across the state, are using an AI tool from Kalibrate Fuel Systems Ltd. that automatically adjusts prices based on confidential data at a time when gasoline topped $7 a gallon in some areas.
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