On April 1, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) launched a Section 232 investigation into the national security of semiconductor imports. On April 16, Commerce published a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public...more
4/21/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Export Controls ,
Fraud ,
National Security ,
Popular ,
Semiconductors ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department
On March 27, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division submitted a Statement of Interest (SOI) in a pricing algorithm case, in which it continues to argue that the use of third-party algorithmic price devices may...more
4/7/2025
/ Algorithms ,
Antitrust Division ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Collusion ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Hotels ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Price-Fixing ,
Sherman Act ,
Software ,
Technology Sector ,
Trump Administration
On October 9, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division convened the heads of federal agency civil rights offices to discuss and promote coordination around preventing harms that may stem from AI, including...more
10/17/2024
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Audits ,
Automated Decision Systems (ADS) ,
Bias ,
Department of Education ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Enforcement ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equity ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Machine Learning ,
Social Media ,
Whistleblowers
On October 3 and 4, the competition authorities of the G7, including the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division, participated in a summit on AI competition challenges.
The...more
10/14/2024
/ Antitrust Division ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Competition ,
Copyright ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
G7 ,
Innovation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Transparency ,
UK
On September 10, eight Democratic Senators urged the heads of the FTC and DOJ’s Antitrust Division to investigate certain generative AI features used by dominant online platforms that may violate competition laws....more
In early June, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) reached an agreement dividing responsibility over AI oversight. The FTC will oversee competitive concerns relating to major software...more
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
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
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
Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco’s March 7, 2024, speech addressed the agency’s current enforcement stance towards AI.
In the speech, Monaco reiterated that there are no AI exemptions to the...more
3/15/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Fraud ,
Market Manipulation ,
Price-Fixing ,
Sentencing ,
White Collar Crimes
On March 1, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted a Statement of Interest (SOI) in the case Duffy v. Yardi Systems Inc., et al.
In this SOI, the agencies...more
After over two years of consultation and review, on February 15, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) finalized a rule prohibiting the impersonation of government agencies or businesses in matters “in or...more
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 Senate Judiciary Committee’s December 13, 2023 hearing...more
12/20/2023
/ Algorithms ,
Amicus Briefs ,
Anti-Competitive ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Collection ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Price-Fixing ,
Sherman Act ,
Summary of Consumer Rights
With the Senate set to flip to Democratic control in the 117th Congress, albeit by a razor thin margin, the policy priorities for the upper chamber are likely to significantly change. In so doing, the various Senate...more
1/15/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Communications Decency Act ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
FCC ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Net Neutrality ,
Popular ,
Privacy Laws ,
Public Policy ,
Section 230 ,
Social Media