On December 9, 2025, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) released its “2026 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report” (the Report), spotlighting generative artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity risks...more
2/19/2026
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California’s AB 2013, also known as the Generative Artificial Intelligence: Training Data Transparency Act (TDTA), took effect on January 1, 2026. In our June 2025 alert, “California’s AB 2013: Generative AI Developers Must...more
1/19/2026
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On December 29, 2025, xAI, the developer of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok, filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate California’s Generative Artificial Intelligence: Training Data Transparency Act (TDTA). ...more
On December 11, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence” (the “EO”) intended to curtail state regulation of artificial intelligence (“AI”). ...more
On September 29, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the first frontier artificial intelligence (AI) safety legislation in the nation, Senate Bill (SB) 53, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial...more
11/17/2025
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The Trump administration revealed its long awaited AI Action Plan (the plan) on July 23, ordering the federal government to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the United States and “remove red tape...more
7/24/2025
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Last week, Congress voted to pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act," codifying President’s Trump domestic agenda, but one important measure did not make it past the finish line: the AI regulatory moratorium that was originally...more
On July 1, 2025, in a near-unanimous, 99-1 vote, the U.S. Senate stripped the AI moratorium provisions originally included in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act." The AI moratorium, which we previously covered here, would have...more
California Assembly Bill 2013 (AB 2013), known as the Generative Artificial Intelligence: Training Data Transparency Act, was signed into law on September 28, 2024, and is set to take effect on January 1, 2026. ...more
6/11/2025
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On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," a budget reconciliation package setting forth President Trump’s domestic agenda, including a sweeping 10-year federal moratorium...more
5/27/2025
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the Copyright Office’s position that artificial intelligence cannot be an author under the Copyright Act....more
Most systems do not protect sensitive information used in prompts, and users bear most of the risk of using generative AI systems and outputs.
Generative AI systems use the information provided in prompts — along with...more
Over the past several weeks, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has upended the marketplace and imposed upon industries, companies, and their workforce new and often unanticipated challenges and delays. Many deal and...more