NC Newsline: North Carolina settles with Greystar in AI rent-fixing lawsuit. “A group of nine attorneys general, including North Carolina’s AG Jeff Jackson, said Thursday they had reached a settlement with the rental company Greystar. The group sued the company and several other property management firms earlier this year, alleging illegal rent fixing through the use of AI tools.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/21/nc-newsline-north-carolina-settles-with-greystar-in-ai-rent-fixing-lawsuit/

Anyone who thinks the #SteamMachine aka. #GabeCube / #GabenCube will be a $499 thing or even a $749 thing needs to get updated on #pricing for #hardware.

• Thanks to the "#AI" #Scamconomy, #PriceFixing and #OpenAI buying 40% of global #DRAM production output due to #Trump's "#Stargate" shitshow and the circular #Scam #economy associated, the 2x16GB #DDR5-SODIMMs (even if those were slow -4800 and not the recommended #Zen4 -6000 speeds) will cost about $250+ as of today.

• #SSD|s too - which use the same chip dabs - also climb beyond $100 per TB or > $50 for a 512 GB #NVMe.

So already these components are $300+ as of today, and industry insiders claim this will get much worse so I'm not even shure a $999 pricetag will be possible by Q1/2026. Not to mention the 8GB VRAM of the built-on, dedicaded #GPU!

• Espechally since #Valve, unlike #Sony, #Microsoft, #Apple and #Nintendo will not have the capital to order like #RAM Chips or even sticks in decent qualtities right now.

The only reason why noone expects Apple to raise prices is because they already shaft their buyers by overcharging them for their #SolderedDownRAM & #SolderedDownSSDs and they tend to buy not just huge quantites, paying abovemarket, but also fewer, higher capacity chips.

(Video via #GamersNexus)

#Enshittification #AIslop #Scams #Scalping #PriceHike #PriceHikes #SKhynix #Micron #Samsung #AMD #SODIMM #DIMM #RAMpricing #Prices #ConsumerElectronics #Greedflation #USpol

Yo @EUCommission can you please do something about the #PriceFixing and "#AI" #scam #industry shafting #cnsumers and businesses?

• Like #OpenAI basically hoarding 40% of global #DRAM supplies?

Cuz I think this is only hurting EVERYONE in the #EU!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hLiwNViMak video via #GamersNexus

#WTF #RAM #Pricibg #Scalpers #Cartels #Tripol #Oligopoly #ConsumerProtection #Enshittufucation #SupplyChain

Miami Seafood Executive Pleads Guilty in Price-Fixing Scheme
https://zurl.co/BCa1a

#northeastradiosd #nationalnews #northeastradiosdnews #miamifl
#florida #shrimp #pricefixing

Canadians, time to get your bread money from Galen Weston:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bread-fixing-website-1.7631445
#Canada #Loblaw #PriceFixing

ACCC accuses four Aldi vegetable suppliers of forming a price-fixing cartel

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has accused four vegetable-growing companies and three executives of being part…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Aldi #AU #Australia #cartel #pricefixing #rural #Supermarkets #vegetablegrowing
https://www.newsbeep.com/95868/

Chicago Sun-Times: Nation’s largest landlord, Greystar, settles price-fixing suit with feds . “In the settlement with Greystar, which still needs approval from a federal judge, Justice Department attorneys said the use of RealPage by Greystar was modern-day price fixing. They did not estimate the impact on renters, but one legal filing noted an apartment complex boasted of using RealPage […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/12/chicago-sun-times-nations-largest-landlord-greystar-settles-price-fixing-suit-with-feds/