StartupsFortuneabout 19 hours ago
Pricing Algorithms May Collude Without Human Agreement
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A 2024 study in the Journal of Political Economy found German gas station margins rose 38% when two competing stations used the same automated pricing software. The algorithms learned to stop undercutting each other without any human agreement or data exchange.
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