On May 19, President Trump signed the TAKE IT DOWN Act into law, which criminalizes the publication of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including AI-generated deepfakes.
The TAKE IT DOWN Act is the first US law to…
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/ Criminal Law, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
On May 9, the United States Copyright Office (Office) issued a pre-publication version of its third Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (Report), which focuses on the question of the use of copyrighted materials to…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On May 7, the Trump administration announced plans to rescind a Biden-era AI chip export control rule and replace it with a new rule.
“The Biden AI rule is overly complex, overly bureaucratic and would stymie American…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
Over the past few weeks, several Trump Administration antitrust enforcers at both the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“DOJ Antitrust”) have written or spoken about the…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Labor & Employment Law, Mergers & Acquisitions
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…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Education Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
On April 16, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published a report on the Chinese company DeepSeek’s AI model with findings from the committee’s investigation into DeepSeek.
The report highlights…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
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 comments…
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Following President Trump’s Executive Order on Reducing Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers, the FTC—led by Chairman Andrew Ferguson—launched a public inquiry this week into “how federal regulations can harm competition in the…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Government Contracting
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 Order…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Science, Computers, & Technology
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 constitute a…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
On March 18, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that an AI model cannot be the author of copyrighted material under existing copyright law. The court affirmed the US Copyright Office’s long-standing human…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Department of Justice (DOJ), along with 38 state attorneys general, has backed away from part of its proposed remedy in the Google antitrust case that would have required Google to divest its AI investments and forgo future…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Remedies, Science, Computers, & Technology
The emergence of DeepSeek has complicated the outlook for the amount of investment necessary in data centers and electricity generation for AI advancements. Against that backdrop, on March 5, the House Committee on Energy and…
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/ Elections & Politics, Energy & Utilities, Science, Computers, & Technology
On February 12, the Senate unanimously passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would criminalize the publication of non-consensual intimate imagery. The bill is now in the House, where it has bipartisan support and is expected to…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Elections & Politics, Science, Computers, & Technology
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…
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/ Elections & Politics, Government Contracting, Science, Computers, & Technology
