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Fenwick & West LLP

NYTW 2025: Building Smarter Cyber Strategies with Government, Founders, and Investors

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At New York Tech Week 2025, cybersecurity took the spotlight. Fenwick partner Jon Lenzner sat down with Bryan Vorndran—former assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division—to unpack what early-stage companies, investors, and...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

NSA Issues Cybersecurity Guidance and Best Practices for AI Systems

The National Security Agency (NSA), in coordination with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and cybersecurity agencies from Australia, New Zealand, and the...more

Morgan Lewis

Executive Order Puts US Aviation Technology on Fast Track

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The president on June 6, 2025 issued a trio of executive orders (EOs) that aim to solidify the United States’ position in advancing new aviation technologies and accelerate the integration of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS),...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

AI, Energy, and the Trump–Xi Mineral Standoff are Colliding. What it means for Renewable M&A?

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As President Trump and President Xi Jinping prepare for high-stakes talks following the breakdown of the May Geneva trade agreement, China’s tightening grip on critical mineral exports—especially graphite, rare earths, and...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI...

AI Moratorium, Bulk Data Controls, and Enforcement Trends

To help our clients and readers sort through the volume of privacy, cyber, and AI news, we are switching Privacy, Cyber, & AI Decoded to a summary format. In this first edition, we look at a proposed 10-year moratorium on...more

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UAE’s Stargate – A Defining Moment for Global AI and Infrastructure

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The UAE’s bold move to launch the “Stargate” AI data center in Abu Dhabi by 2026 is more than a technological milestone. It’s a strategic play that reinforces the country’s ambition to lead in AI, digital infrastructure, and...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

FTC Chair Ferguson Tells Congress Agency Needs Extra Resources to Enforce AI Deepfake Act, and Trump Signs Nuclear Energy EO — AI:...

On May 15, FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson testified to the House Appropriations Committee that his agency needs additional resources to fulfill its enforcement obligations under the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which bans AI-generated...more

A&O Shearman

AI diffusion rule rescinded; policy guidance for advanced integrated circuits and commodities issued

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The U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced on May 13, 2025, its plans to rescind the Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Framework (the Rule), the Biden-era regulation that imposed a...more

White & Case LLP

AI Watch: Global regulatory tracker - China

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The Interim AI Measures is China's first specific, administrative regulation on the management of generative AI services. Laws/Regulations/National Standards directly regulating AI (the "AI Regulations") The Cyberspace...more

Perkins Coie

Trump Administration Launches Sweeping Initiative to Advance Deployment of Nuclear Technology

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On Friday, May 23, 2025, President Trump signed four executive orders related to nuclear energy, three of which seek to expedite approval processes for permitting new nuclear reactors. The orders, which build upon...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Best Practices for Securing Data Used to Train and Operate AI Systems

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The National Security Agency’s Artificial Intelligence, Security Center (AISC), together with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Australian Signals...more

Hogan Lovells

BIS announces rescission of Biden-Era AI Diffusion Rule and issues new AI policy and guidance

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At the same time that it potentially reduced licensing requirements on advanced computing items to a smaller group of countries by notifying industry that it started the process to rescind the AI Diffusion Rule, the U.S....more

McGuireWoods LLP

Executive Orders Seek Resurgence of Nuclear Power in U.S.

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On May 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed four executive orders designed to boost the nuclear power energy industry in the United States. The executive orders recognize that advances in AI and other energy-hungry...more

Balch & Bingham LLP

Executive Orders Aim to Unlock America's Nuclear Energy Sector

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On May 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed four executive orders aimed at revitalizing and accelerating the growth of nuclear energy in the United States. The executive orders direct actions by the Department of Defense...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (Trump EO Tracker)

Directs the Departments of Defense and Energy to deploy advanced nuclear reactors for critical military and AI infrastructure, starting with operation at a domestic military base by September 30, 2028, and site deployment at...more

K&L Gates LLP

Historic US Presidential Visit to the Middle East

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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, recently concluded a landmark tour of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This was his first official...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

President Trump Signs AI Deepfake Act into Law and House Passes AI Measures — AI: The Washington Report

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...more

Wiley Rein LLP

BIS Rescinds AI Diffusion Rule and Issues Guidance on Advanced Computing Integrated Circuits

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On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced the rescission of the previously issued Framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Diffusion Rule. The following day, May 13,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

BIS Rescinds Its AI Diffusion Rule and Issues Compliance Guidance Regarding Advanced Computing Items

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a series of significant updates affecting export controls on advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs), artificial intelligence (AI)...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

From Storage to AI Factories: Data Centre Investment Considerations for Private Capital Investors

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Data centres have become one of the most critical assets of the digital age and form one of the key pillars in modern infrastructure investment. Once viewed as passive storage units, today they power everything from streaming...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: What’s Next for the AI Diffusion Rule

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The Trump administration recently announced its intent to scrap the so-called AI diffusion rule, a complex regulation the Biden administration published in January to govern the global export of AI technology and maintain US...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Throwing Away the Toaster: Where AI Controls Are Now and May be Heading

Anyhow, on a possibly related note, on May 14, 2025, BIS announced that it will rescind the AI Diffusion Rule and that, until the time of the official recission, would not enforce the Biden-era regulation. Stop-Gap Stopped -...more

Kilpatrick

Proposed Federal Ban on State Regulation of AI

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Late Sunday, May 11, 2025, the House Energy and Commerce Committee released markup text for the forthcoming reconciliation bill. The legislation, referred to by President Trump as “One Big Beautiful Bill” (or as a friend...more

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US Export Controls on “AI Diffusion” Officially Paused, but New Guidance Elevates Risk for AI-Related Exports

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On May 13, 2025, the Department of Commerce formally signaled its intention to rescind the Biden Administration’s Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion (AI Diffusion Rule) two days before the January 2025 Interim...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Employees using free or unauthorized AI tools at work?

The rise of artificial intelligence has brought both opportunities and challenges to the workplace. However, a growing trend of employees using free or unauthorized AI tools poses significant risks, from security breaches to...more

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