Las Vegas Ruling Offers Roadmap for AI Clashes With Antitrust

A Nevada judge’s dismissal of a price-fixing suit against major Las Vegas hotels is rippling across the country as courts wrestle with the question of how antitrust laws intersect with AI-powered information systems.

Chief Judge Miranda Du of the US District Court for the District of Nevada earlier this month dismissed a proposed class action alleging the hotel-casinos shared algorithms to set room rates, saying there was no evidence of a tacit price-fixing agreement, and that hotels could reject the machine-suggested rates.

Her ruling was among the first to offer clear guides for when AI decisions might cross into illegal ...