{"id":235385,"date":"2026-06-22T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/bp-marathon-7-eleven-walmart-sued-for-allegedly-using-ai-to-boost-california-gas-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:55:13","slug":"bp-marathon-7-eleven-walmart-sued-for-allegedly-using-ai-to-boost-california-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/bp-marathon-7-eleven-walmart-sued-for-allegedly-using-ai-to-boost-california-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"BP, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Walmart\u00a0sued for allegedly using AI to boost California gas prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/bp-marathon-7-eleven-walmart-sued-allegedly-using-ai-boost-california-gas-prices-2026-06-22\/\">BP, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Walmart\u00a0sued for allegedly using AI to boost California gas prices<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/bp-marathon-7-eleven-walmart-sued-allegedly-using-ai-boost-california-gas-prices-2026-06-22\/\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/bp-marathon-7-eleven-walmart-sued-allegedly-using-ai-boost-california-gas-prices-2026-06-22\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 17:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.reuters.com\">www.reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>California drivers have filed a lawsuit against gas station operators, including BP, Circle K, Marathon Petroleum, 7-Eleven, Walmart, and Albertsons, accusing them of using artificial intelligence (AI) to artificially inflate gas prices.<\/li>\n<li>The lawsuit claims that the use of an AI tool provided by Kalibrate has caused gas prices to rise by up to 30 cents a gallon in regions where many stations use the tool, resulting in an estimated $134 million extra cost per year for California drivers.<\/li>\n<li>The defendants are alleged to have violated California\u2019s Cartwright Act and Assembly Bill 325, which was created to combat algorithmic price fixing in gasoline.<\/li>\n<li>The lawsuit asserts that the defendants conspired to eliminate competition and maintain artificially high gasoline prices, contributing to California\u2019s extremely high gas prices, which average $5.58 per gallon.<\/li>\n<li>The case, filed in Sacramento federal court, seeks unspecified damages for consumers who overpaid for gasoline as a result of this alleged scheme.<\/li>\n<li>None of the defendants have made public comments in response to the lawsuit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BP, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Walmart\u00a0sued for allegedly using AI to boost California gas prices https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/bp-marathon-7-eleven-walmart-sued-allegedly-using-ai-boost-california-gas-prices-2026-06-22\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resizer\/v2\/KMAWKR2S4ZMRBC4UYNIWYZSZQA.jpg?auth=428780e4a5d8eaf4d6356be80e73f3548ae5b6215ba9d0e01ad9d2a01c4f1cb5&height=1005&width=1920&quality=80&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-235385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235385"}],"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=235385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235387,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235385\/revisions\/235387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}