The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued RealPage on Friday after a two-year investigation that included an unannounced FBI raid of a national corporate landlord. The DOJ alleged that Richardson, Texas-based RealPage, which sells real estate software, decreased competition among landlords and artificially inflated rents for millions of tenants across the country. “We allege that...
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Why a Federal Judge Blocked the FTC’s Noncompete Ban
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned noncompetes in April, saying that the agreements — which prevent a company’s employees from working for competitors or starting rival firms for a set time after their employment ends — kept salaries down and stopped Americans from creating new businesses. Now, a Dallas U.S. district judge is blocking the...
Microsoft AI CEO: Anything on Open Web Fair Use for Training
In order to write, lead advertising campaigns, and power side hustles AI needs training material. ChatGPT needed about 300 billion words to get off the ground and continues to train itself based on how users interact with it. However, human beings aren’t being credited or compensated for creating the content that AI is eating up....
Lawyers Who Argued Against Elon Musk Pay Charge $370K Hourly
The legal team that argued against Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s record-high pay package now wants to get paid — a record-setting $7.3 billion in legal fees. There were 37 lawyers, associates, and paralegals helping represent Richard Tornetta, the Tesla shareholder who sued the EV maker over Musk’s proposed $56 billion pay. Tornetta won in Delaware...