On December 9, 2025, Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative released an investigation finding that Instacart customers ordering the same items from the same store location were offered differen…
One year after Amazon and Google replaced their legacy voice assistants with generative AI versions, independent tests from Consumer Reports and The Vergecast's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Nilay Patel…
Uber Technologies Inc.'s average US fares rose 83% from 2018 to 2022, nearly four times the annual rate of inflation, according to Business Insider, which found that identical UberX ride requests at t…
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act, banning grocery stores from using personal data to set individual prices, with fines up to $10,000 for first offenses and $20,0…
PJM Interconnection's capacity auction for 2028-29 cleared at the maximum price of $325 per megawatt-day, with supply falling 6.8 gigawatts short, as data center demand drives up electricity costs. Mo…
Voice authentication and video-based identity verification are no longer trustworthy as standalone security signals, according to security researchers and law enforcement data, because AI can clone an…
AI data centers are contributing to rising household electric bills, particularly in regions like Northern Virginia's 'Data Center Alley.' While not the sole cause, data centers accounted for roughly …
A joint investigation by Consumer Reports, the Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union found that Instacart used an AI pricing platform called Eversight to charge different customers different…
A Consumer Reports investigation found that Uber and Lyft charge different customers significantly different prices for the same rides, with median price differences of about 50%. The investigation al…
OpenAI faces challenges in building its ad business due to limited ad inventory, unlike rivals Google, Meta, and Amazon which have endless formats. YouTube's VP Tara Walpert Levy says the platform's T…
Smart fridges and other internet-connected appliances risk losing functionality and security when manufacturers stop providing software updates, a process known as 'zombification.' A 2025 FTC report f…
Consumer Reports found that Uber and Lyft use AI to charge different customers significantly different prices for the same ride at the same time, with one route in Kansas City generating 29 different …
Consumer Reports found that Uber and Lyft use AI-driven pricing to charge vastly different fares for identical rides, with a median price difference of 50%, and offer fake discounts based on inflated …
Residents of Virginia are seeing their electricity bills triple due to the rapid expansion of data centers, even if they have never used one. A Manassas man's bill jumped to $281 in January, roughly t…