While the tech industry prepares for an Executive Order (EO) seeking to limit state regulation of AI, President Trump instead issued an EO titled “Launching the Genesis Mission” on November 24, 2025. The Genesis Mission (the...more
12/12/2025
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Biotechnology ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Emerging Technologies ,
Energy Sector ,
Executive Orders ,
Government Agencies ,
Infrastructure ,
Innovation ,
Machine Learning ,
National Security ,
Research and Development ,
Semiconductors ,
Technology Sector ,
Trump Administration
New York became the first state to regulate emotionally responsive “AI companion” chatbots on November 5, 2025, when the Artificial Intelligence Companion Models Law entered effect. California’s SB 243 follows close behind,...more
11/20/2025
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Bots ,
California ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Minors ,
New Legislation ,
New York ,
Notification Requirements ,
Online Safety for Children ,
Penalties ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
State and Local Government ,
State Legislatures ,
Telecommunications
California set a new baseline for transparency in “frontier” AI this week. On September 29, 2025, Governor Newsom signed SB 53, Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (“TFAIA” or the “Law”). According to the...more
10/2/2025
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Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
State and Local Government ,
Transparency ,
Whistleblowers
The White House released on July 23, 2025, Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan (“AI Action Plan”) pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order 14179, Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial...more
7/29/2025
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Bias ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Centers ,
Deep Fake ,
Deregulation ,
Energy Consumption ,
Executive Orders ,
Export Controls ,
FCC ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Infrastructure ,
International Trade ,
National Security ,
NIST ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Semiconductors ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department
President Biden’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence was issued on November 1, 2023, and has made waves throughout the AI industry. Morrison Foerster has been...more
The D.C. district court recently affirmed the U.S. Copyright Office’s position that a work generated entirely by artificial intelligence (AI) technology is not eligible for copyright protection. The case is Stephen Thaler v....more
8/30/2023
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Authorship ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Copyright Office ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inventors ,
Machine Learning ,
The Copyright Act ,
Work Made For Hire Doctrine
In coordination with the White House, several leaders in the artificial intelligence (AI) space have publicly committed to a voluntary set of guidelines relating to responsible development and deployment of AI. Amazon,...more
On March 14, 2023, OpenAI—a MoFo client—released GPT-4, which quickly garnered broad media coverage. For those assessing the opportunities and risks related to GPT-4, it is useful to consider the extent of the stated...more
While the use of AI tools is not new, public awareness of, and debate around, these tools will continue to increase as these tools become more widely available. Talk of AI and in particular generative AI is now ubiquitous in...more
Both domestically and internationally, in 2023 we expect to see continued government scrutiny and regulation of AI tools and their use.
AI Bill of Rights. In October 2022, the White House released the Blueprint for an AI...more
Technology companies, researchers, content creators, and lawmakers will continue to grapple with the thorny copyright issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic outputs. In 2023, we expect to see continued...more
The Federal Circuit made headlines when it affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia’s holding that an artificial intelligence (AI) cannot qualify as an “inventor” under the Patent Act – only...more
The past year has seen a flurry of crypto-related activities by the federal financial regulators, including the issuance of reports, guidance, joint statements, and interpretive letters....more
5/5/2022
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Blockchain ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Department of Financial Services ,
Executive Orders ,
FDIC ,
Know Your Customers ,
NYDFS ,
OCC ,
Popular ,
Stablecoins ,
Virtual Currency
2022 will see a continued trend of using AI to develop natural language capabilities for machines to better understand, communicate, and even code or “author” works. 2021 saw a rise in automatic and semi-automatic analyses...more
The USPTO recently released the report “Public Views on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Policy”. The report is part of the USPTO’s effort to engage with the innovation community and experts on AI and to...more
With regulatory frameworks around autonomous vehicles (AVs) under development at the federal, state, and local levels, new autonomous technology frontiers are emerging for rulemakers. The latest is personal delivery devices...more
On February 26, 2018, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) announced new regulations allowing fully driverless cars to be tested on California roads as of April 2, 2018. The announcement culminates a multi-year...more