Suit alleges OpenAI has a'troubling pattern' of hiring former xAI workers to access secrets about the Grok chatbot Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has accused rival OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets in a new lawsuit, the latest in Musk's legal assault on his former business partner, Sam Altman. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in California federal court, alleged that OpenAI was engaged in a "deeply troubling pattern" of hiring away former xAI employees to gain access to trade secrets related to its AI chatbot Grok . The company says OpenAI is pursuing unfair advantages in the race to develop AI technology. "OpenAI is targeting those individuals with knowledge of xAI's key technologies and business plans, including xAI's source code and its operational advantages in launching data centers, then inducing those employees to breach their confidentiality and other obligations to xAI through unlawful means," the lawsuit states. Musk and xAI have launched numerous lawsuits against OpenAI in recent years as part of a longstanding feud between Altman and Musk.

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced he intended to shut down 16 of the most popular AI "undressing" sites at a press conference on Thursday. The Verge reported that the City Attorney is accusing these sites of violating federal laws regarding revenge pornography, deepfake pornography and child pornography. Chiu's office also accused the sites of violating the state of California's unfair competition law because "the harm they cause to consumers greatly outweighs any benefits associated with those practices," according to the complaint for injunctive relief filed in a California superior court. The complaint focuses on a total of 50 defendants Chiu intends to prosecute for operating undressing websites. Some of the defendants' and websites' names were redacted but it also publicly identifies a few companies that operate "some of the world's most popular websites that offer to nudify images of women and girls" such as Sol Ecom located in Florida, Briver in New Mexico and the UK-based Itai Tech Ltd.

Elon Musk is once again suing OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, resurrecting a legal battle against his former partners with a case that now claims they manipulated him into co-founding the artificial intelligence company. Months after abruptly withdrawing a similar lawsuit without explanation, Musk filed a new lawsuit on Monday in a northern California federal court. OpenAI denied the allegations in a statement to the Guardian, pointing to its previous blogposts about Musk's initial lawsuit earlier this year. Musk's latest complaint claims the case is a "textbook tale of altruism versus greed", repeating allegations in his previous suit that his former co-founders in OpenAI betrayed him by turning the company from a non-profit into a largely for-profit enterprise. "The perfidy and deceit is of Shakespearean proportions," it states.

Elon Musk is facing yet another lawsuit as shareholders of Tesla accuse the chief executive and his company of overstating the effectiveness and safety of their electric vehicles' autopilot and full self-driving technologies. Shareholders have alleged in the proposed class action lawsuit that Tesla defrauded them over four years with false and misleading statements that concealed how its technologies – suspected as a possible cause of multiple fatal crashes – "created a serious risk of accident and injury". The case was filed Monday in a San Francisco federal court. The case centers on the financial fallout of Tesla's failed autopilot features, citing when the company's share price fell after reports that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission had begun investigating the technologies. The share price also fell 5.7% on 16 February 2023 after NHTSA forced a recall of more than 362,000 Tesla vehicles equipped with full self-driving beta software because they could be unsafe around intersections. "As a result of defendants' wrongful acts and omissions, and the precipitous decline in the market value of the company's common stock, plaintiff and other class members have suffered significant losses and damages," the complaint said.

Williams's wrongful arrest, which was first reported by the New York Times in August 2020, was based on a bad match from the Detroit Police Department's facial recognition system. Two more instances of false arrests have since been made public. Both are also Black men, and both have taken legal action to try rectifying the situation. Now Williams is following in their path and going further--not only by suing the Detroit Police for his wrongful arrest, but by trying to get the technology banned. On Tuesday, the ACLU and the University of Michigan Law School's Civil Rights Litigation Initiative filed a lawsuit on behalf of Williams, alleging that his arrest violated Williams's Fourth Amendment rights and was in defiance of Michigan's civil rights law.

In 2018, Riot Games, the developer and publisher behind games such as "League of Legends" and "Valorant," made headlines after a Kotaku exposé about the company's culture of sexism. The article outlined an environment in which women were regularly passed over for promotions, and a company with an ingrained "bro culture," where demeaning and discriminatory behavior was viewed as normal. Kotaku's story led to a class action gender discrimination lawsuit. It also spawned two separate investigations by regulators in California, where Riot is based.

San Francisco (AFP) - A US judge rejected a request by Facebook to toss out a civil suit accusing it of violating privacy with face-recognition software to help "tag" people in pictures. A lawsuit filed by three Illinois residents under the auspices of the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act can proceed, US District Court Judge James Donato said. "The court accepts as true plaintiffs' allegations that Facebook's face recognition technology involves a scan of face geometry that was done without plaintiffs' consent," he said in the ruling. It appeared that legislators in Illinois passed the act to address emerging biometric technology such as Facebook face-recognition software at issue in the case, according to the judge. Facebook had argued in a motion to dismiss that analyzing uploaded photographs did not qualify as biometric data and that the Illinois law did not apply.