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San Francisco's law enforcement has filed a lawsuit aimed at shutting down 16 websites that use artificial intelligence to turn photos of real women into nonconsensual images. Such services have recently gained popularity among both teenagers and adults.

On October 1, 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Ross Ulbricht in San Francisco Public Library in Glen Park. To prevent Ulbricht from encrypting or deleting files on the laptop he used to run the website, two agents, pretending to be a couple, began to argue. When they successfully distracted Ross, a third agent seized the laptop and inserted a flash drive with software that copied key files. Ulbricht was remanded without bail and received two life sentences. Who is Ross Ulbricht and why does every crypto trader know about Silk Road - find out in our article.

On October 7, 2024, the Federal Court in San Francisco made a landmark ruling that could reshape the mobile app ecosystem.

In San Francisco's Chinatown, a group of people attacked a Waymo driverless car (AI taxi). They smashed its windshield and covered it in spray paint, before setting it on fire with fireworks. Despite the swift arrival of the fire department, the vehicle was beyond saving.

At the inaugural DevDay developer conference in San Francisco, Sam Altman delivered a groundbreaking presentation.

OpenAI and Microsoft are under fire in a class-action lawsuit over alleged web scraping to gather private data for training AI models like ChatGPT. The lawsuit, filed on Sept. 5 in San Francisco, accuses the companies of using stolen private info, including personal data from countless internet users, without consent. The plaintiffs argue that without this data theft, products like ChatGPT and DALL-E wouldn't be the billion-dollar businesses they are today. They seek damages and a halt to the alleged illegal data scraping.

In a lawsuit filed in San Francisco, crypto influencer Joel Dietz claims that Consensys stole his idea for a browser-based crypto wallet similar to MetaMask. Dietz alleges that he created the intellectual property that eventually became MetaMask under a project called Vapor in late 2014. He hired a person named Davis in 2015 to help with coding Vapor, but Dietz accuses Davis of betraying him and collaborating with Consensys instead. Consensys denies Dietz’s claims, stating that he falsely marketed himself as the founder of MetaMask to deceive investors.

Yesterday, an investor filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing Coinbase's board members, including Chairman and CEO Brian Armstrong, of selling $2.9 billion in stock during the company's public listing two years ago. The lawsuit claims that the board later revealed "material, negative information" that severely impacted market optimism. In a separate legal issue, another lawsuit was filed in San Francisco on the same day, alleging that Coinbase violated Illinois' biometric privacy law. The complaint asserts that the company collected customer data without obtaining proper consent beforehand. As Coinbase faces these dual legal challenges, it seems the company is in for a tumultuous ride. It remains to be seen whether these lawsuits are simply part of a fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) storm brewing on the horizon, or if they represent more substantial concerns for the cryptocurrency giant.