2025-12-18
The FTC is reportedly investigating Instacart over its AI pricing tool
The Federal Trade Commission has sent Instacart a civil investigative demand, seeking information about its AI-powered pricing tool, according to Reuters. This comes after a recently published pricing experiment study showed that the online grocery delivery app gave different users different prices for the same items from the same store location at the exact same time. Some of the testers saw prices up to 23 perc [...]
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2025-12-09
Study shows that Instacart was charging different amounts for the same items
A collaborative report from Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union has uncovered pricing experiments within the Instacart app that yielded higher or lower prices for differe [...]
2025-09-03
Appeals court reinstates fired Democratic FTC commissioner
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter can resume her work as a commissioner for the FTC, a federal appeals court has ruled. Slaughter, who was one of the two Democratic commissioners for the FTC that President Trum [...]
2025-07-18
Trump's firing of Democratic FTC commissioner was unlawful, judge rules
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, one of the Democratic FTC Commissioners President Trump had fired back in March, said she looks forward to getting back to work. US District Judge Loren AliKhan has just ruled [...]
2025-04-21
FTC sues Uber over claims the company makes subscriptions hard to cancel
The Federal Trade Commission has decided to take formal action against ride-hailing service Uber over what it describes as "deceptive billing and cancellation practices." The FTC's laws [...]
2025-09-11
The FTC is investigating companies that make AI companion chatbots
The Federal Trade Commission is making a formal inquiry into companies that provide AI chatbots that can act as companions. The investigation isn't tied to any kind of regulatory action as of yet [...]
2025-09-18
The FTC sues Ticketmaster for allegedly colluding with resellers
The FTC and seven states sued Ticketmaster owner Live Nation on Wednesday. The lawsuit accused the company of knowingly allowing brokers to buy tickets in bulk. Ticketmaster allegedly then let them re [...]