{"id":372296,"date":"2026-06-24T01:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372296\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T01:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:12:16","slug":"lawsuit-claims-7-eleven-bp-and-walmart-using-ai-to-manipulate-california-gas-prices-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372296\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit claims 7-Eleven, BP and Walmart using AI to manipulate California gas prices \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is costing motorists in California more money at the gas pump, according to a new lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit claims companies in the state are using data collected by AI to manipulate gas prices. Companies mentioned in the lawsuit include Walmart, 7-Eleven, and BP<\/p>\n<p>AI from an England-based software company called Kalibrate tracks customer data from gas pumps to help companies keep up with each other&#8217;s prices, stifling competition.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit claims AI is making antitrust easy: Companies can work together to keep gas prices high, giving consumer no option to find lower prices.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart, 7-Eleven, BP and Kalibrate did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence is costing motorists in California more money at the gas pump, according to a new lawsuit.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2080,7,9,8,23526],"class_list":["post-372296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-oil-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}