{"id":10723,"date":"2026-02-25T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/ai-bots-formed-a-cartel-no-one-told-them-to\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:02:23","slug":"ai-bots-formed-a-cartel-no-one-told-them-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/ai-bots-formed-a-cartel-no-one-told-them-to\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Bots Formed a Cartel. No One Told Them\u00a0To."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    AI Bots Formed a Cartel. No One Told Them\u00a0To.<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Inside the research that shows algorithmic price-fixing isn&#8217;t a bug in the code. It&#8217;s a feature of the\u00a0math.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/ai-bots-formed-a-cartel-no-one-told-them-to\/\">AI Bots Formed a Cartel. No One Told Them\u00a0To.<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/\">Towards Data Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Kaushik Rajan<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/ai-bots-formed-a-cartel-no-one-told-them-to\/\">Go to original source<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Bots Formed a Cartel. No One Told Them\u00a0To. Inside the research that shows algorithmic price-fixing isn&#8217;t a bug in the code. It&#8217;s a feature of the\u00a0math. The post AI Bots Formed a Cartel. No One Told Them\u00a0To. appeared first on Towards Data Science. Kaushik Rajan Go to original source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[678,62,69,1474,240,1177,4823],"tags":[98,982,4824],"class_list":["post-10723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agentic-ai","category-aimldsaimlds","category-artificial-intelligence","category-economics","category-editors-pick","category-game-theory","category-pricing-strategy","tag-ai","tag-bots","tag-formed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}