{"id":183961,"date":"2026-02-03T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/states-should-stop-trying-to-regulate-ai-pricing\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:10:10","slug":"states-should-stop-trying-to-regulate-ai-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/states-should-stop-trying-to-regulate-ai-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"States Should Stop Trying to Regulate AI Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/policy\/states-should-stop-trying-to-regulate-ai-pricing\">States Should Stop Trying to Regulate AI Pricing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/policy\/states-should-stop-trying-to-regulate-ai-pricing\">https:\/\/www.governing.com\/policy\/states-should-stop-trying-to-regulate-ai-pricing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-03 00:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.governing.com\">www.governing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many states, led by California and New York, have introduced over 50 AI pricing bills, targeting algorithmic pricing and raising concerns about innovation and competition in AI. <\/li>\n<li>The regulations show significant variation in definitions and compliance requirements, leading to potential regulatory overreach, including accidentally covering everyday market transactions.<\/li>\n<li>California and New York have enacted broad, potentially overly intrusive regulations affecting consumer data use for pricing and algorithmic disclosure mandates, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Critics argue that AI-enabled pricing can offer consumers personalized deals, but some suggest that regulations are unnecessary due to existing federal antitrust and consumer protection laws.<\/li>\n<li>The article argues that state-level regulations are unnecessary and could stifle innovation; it suggests focusing on expanding AI opportunities by removing existing barriers and not imposing new ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States Should Stop Trying to Regulate AI Pricing https:\/\/www.governing.com\/policy\/states-should-stop-trying-to-regulate-ai-pricing Publish Date: 2026-02-03 00:02:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/6c1e014\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/840x408+0+17\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbc%2F9c%2F44401ab0436b8b9b1ed2d9440043%2Fthierer-kolas-ai-pricing-adobe.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183963,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183961\/revisions\/183963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}