Lawyer Ex Machina #17: The Lettuce Won
A Stable Diffusion vid - "human evolution" by Fabio Comparelli:
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler wants Congress to "give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission more powers to police cryptocurrency stablecoins."
As social media hacking grows, here are some options for recovering your accounts.
A physical house in Columbia, SC, was sold as an NFT for $175,000.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is forcing Meta to sell Giphy, an online repository and search engine for images, after Meta's unsuccessful appeal of the regulatory order.
Matthew Butterick (author of Typography for Lawyers) is investigating a potential lawsuit against Microsoft for violations of open-source licenses in GitHub's CoPilot product, which relies on an AI trained on open-source software repositories.
These two stories go in tandem:
"Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why" (ProPublica)
"RealPage, Landlords Face Antitrust Lawsuit Over Rent Spike" [Bloomberg ($) | Docket via RECAP Archive]
Law Siskind Susser PC is partnering with legal research platform Fastcase to develop an immigration law-focused case management and document management system.