On April 29, 2025, Congress passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act in a rare moment of nearly unanimous support for AI-related legislation. The act would prohibit the publication of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including...more
On April 7, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released two memoranda on revised policies for the federal government’s acquisition and adoption of AI, pursuant to President Trump’s January AI Executive...more
4/14/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Coal Industry ,
Data Centers ,
Energy Policy ,
Executive Orders ,
Government Agencies ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
New Guidance ,
OMB ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Technology Sector ,
Trump Administration
The Trump administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy received 8,755 comments in response to its Request for Information for the development of its AI Action Plan implementing the Trump AI Executive Order issued...more
3/24/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Copyright ,
Data Security ,
Executive Orders ,
Export Controls ,
Infrastructure ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Machine Learning ,
National Security ,
Preemption ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Research and Development ,
Shareholders ,
State and Local Government ,
Technology Sector
On February 11, Vice President JD Vance delivered remarks to world leaders, policymakers, and technology executives at the AI Action Summit in Paris, France. His speech provided a public look into how the Trump administration...more
The start of Donald Trump’s second presidency and Republican control in the 119th Congress raises questions about the future of the IRA’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program (the Negotiation Program), which could be...more
On February 6, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) published a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public comments on the development of the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan. President...more
The breakthrough of the Chinese company DeepSeek’s AI model, which rivals leading US AI models but costs a fraction to develop, changes the equation for the Trump administration and calls into question its initial inclination...more
In his first week in office, President Trump took three significant actions on AI that lay the foundation for a new deregulatory approach to AI at the federal level.
On Inauguration Day, Trump repealed President Biden’s...more
1/27/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Due Diligence ,
Executive Orders ,
Infrastructure ,
Investment ,
National Security ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Technology Sector ,
Trump Administration
President Biden’s final week in office included three AI actions — a new rule on chip and AI model export controls, an executive order on AI infrastructure and data centers, and an executive order on cybersecurity.
On...more
1/20/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Centers ,
Executive Orders ,
Export Controls ,
Final Rules ,
National Security ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Technology Sector
The end of December, especially before a change in administration and a new Congress in January, is a slow time in Washington, DC, but this week, we highlight the few recent AI developments that have come out of our nation’s...more
President Biden’s Executive Order on AI (AI EO), issued on October 30, 2023, directed various agencies to take certain actions within one year of the AI EO’s issuance. On October 24, 2024, the White House announced that...more
11/8/2024
/ Algorithms ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Copyright Office ,
Data Storage ,
Department of Education ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Executive Orders ,
Government Agencies ,
Infrastructure ,
National Security ,
OMB ,
Research and Development
On October 24, the Biden administration issued the first-ever National Security Memorandum (NSM) on AI. Pursuant to the Biden administration’s Executive Order on AI, the NSM outlines concrete actions for federal agencies to...more
Last week, the Secretary of the Treasury released a final proposed rule to implement the Biden administration’s August 2023 Executive Order on outbound investments.
The proposed rule seeks to “prevent countries of concern...more
7/1/2024
/ Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
CFIUS ,
China ,
Executive Orders ,
Foreign Investment ,
Hong Kong ,
Macau ,
National Security ,
Outbound Transactions ,
Prohibited Transactions ,
Proposed Rules ,
Semiconductors ,
Technology Sector ,
U.S. Treasury
Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the PREPARED for AI Act.
The bill aims to position federal agencies to safely and effectively adopt AI technologies by creating a comprehensive risk-mitigating...more
President Joe Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on AI directed agencies to institute a significant number of actions on AI. On April 29, 2024, the White House announced that federal agencies had completed “all of the...more
5/10/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Automated Decision Systems (ADS) ,
Automation Systems ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
Healthcare ,
HUD ,
National Security ,
NIST ,
OPM ,
Research and Development ,
Rulemaking Process ,
State Labor Laws ,
Transmission Grid ,
USDA
President Joe Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on AI directed agencies to institute a significant number of actions on AI. On April 29, 2024, the White House announced that federal agencies had completed “all of the...more
5/3/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Automated Decision Systems (ADS) ,
Bias ,
Biden Administration ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Healthcare ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Labor Standards Enforcement ,
Machine Learning ,
National Security ,
NIST ,
OFCCP ,
Risk Management ,
Subcontractors ,
Transmission Grid
Pursuant to President Biden’s October 2023 executive order on AI, on April 11, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) published “Guidance on Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools in...more
4/23/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Confidential Information ,
Executive Orders ,
Exports ,
Inventions ,
Inventors ,
Licensing Rules ,
Machine Learning ,
New Guidance ,
Patents ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
USPTO
Pursuant to President Biden’s October 2023 executive order on AI, in March 2024 the Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum directing the use of AI by federal agencies.
Among other provisions, the memorandum...more
4/10/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Biometric Information ,
Compliance ,
Due Diligence ,
Executive Orders ,
Information Governance ,
New Guidance ,
OMB ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Sustainability
President Joe Biden’s fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget proposal includes hundreds of millions of dollars allocated towards executive branch AI efforts.
The budget proposal’s AI-related provisions can be sorted into three...more
3/29/2024
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Automation Systems ,
Biden Administration ,
Department of Agriculture ,
Department of Education ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Budget ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
HUD ,
National Science Foundation ,
NHTSA ,
NIST ,
Research and Development ,
Risk Management ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
U.S. Treasury
On February 20, 2024, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA-4) announced the creation of a bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) (“AI Task Force”) composed of 24 members, with 12 from each party.
The House AI...more
The Department of Commerce has launched the US AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), a multistakeholder body tasked with developing AI safety standards and practices.
The AISIC is currently composed of over 200 members...more
On January 29, 2024, the White House published a fact sheet detailing the actions that have been taken pursuant to President Joe Biden’s October 30, 2023 executive order on “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use...more
2/5/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
COPPA ,
Defense Production Act ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
IaaS ,
Infrastructure ,
National Science Foundation ,
Proposed Rules ,
U.S. Commerce Department
Welcome to this week’s issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies.
This week, we discuss the continued contentious matter of the use of...more
1/11/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Office ,
Data Privacy ,
EU ,
Executive Orders ,
Fair Use ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Japan ,
Machine Learning ,
Training ,
Transparency
Welcome to this week’s issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies.
The year 2023 has been a significant one for artificial intelligence and AI...more
12/28/2023
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Biden Administration ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Enforcement ,
EU ,
European Council ,
European Parliament ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Agenda
Welcome to this week's issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies. On October 30, 2023, President Biden promulgated Executive Order 14110, “Safe,...more