AI data centers are swallowing the world’s memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade

AI data centers are swallowing the world’s memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade

This free-to-access article was made possible by Tom’s Hardware Premium, where you can find in-depth news analysis, features and access to Bench. Nearly every analyst firm and memory maker is now warning of looming shortages of NAND and DRAM that will result in skyrocketing pricing for SSDs and memory over the coming months and years,…

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AI-Driven Antitrust and Competition Law: Algorithmic Collusion, Self-Learning Pricing Tools, and Legal Challenges in the US and EU

AI-Driven Antitrust and Competition Law: Algorithmic Collusion, Self-Learning Pricing Tools, and Legal Challenges in the US and EU

AI in Market Economics and Pricing Algorithms AI-driven pricing models, particularly those utilizing reinforcement learning (RL), can lead to outcomes resembling traditional collusion, fundamentally altering market dynamics. Unlike human-set strategies in oligopoly models, AI agents, like Q-learning, autonomously learn pricing strategies from data, often resulting in supra-competitive pricing due to agents’ ability to detect rivals’…

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