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Regulation: US government orders Claude Fable 5 offline — and sets the price of its return
Business: KPMG is embedding Claude into the software 276,000 employees use for client work
Business: Google's Gemini Spark keeps working after you close your laptop — but costs $100 a month
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Small Business: Anthropic's Claude toolkit now plugs into QuickBooks, PayPal, and HubSpot
Law: Federal judge fines two lawyers $110,000 for AI-fabricated citations
Sports: MLB's robot umpire overrules the human 54% of the time
Careers: Meta cuts 8,000 jobs and calls it an AI pivot — here's what that number actually means
Academia: Stanford first-years pitch "understanding checks" as the answer to AI cheating
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Renters at buildings that used RealPage’s pricing software between October 2018 and November 2025 have until January 29, 2027 to file a claim against the $359.9 million fund.

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An algorithm may have set your rent. A $360 million settlement could owe you money.

By Plainly Staff  ·  August 5, 2026  ·  4 min read

Renters across the US can now file claims against a $359.9 million settlement fund in a lawsuit alleging that software quietly helped landlords push rents higher than open competition would have allowed. If you paid rent on an apartment between October 2018 and November 2025, a five-minute lookup will tell you whether you can file a claim.

The settling companies deny all wrongdoing. But the case has already changed how RealPage operates — and put a question in front of every renter few thought to ask before: who — or what — actually set your rent?

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