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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

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

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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

Ropes & Gray LLP

[Podcast] R&G Tech Studio: AI Innovation vs. Safety—Insights on a New Executive Order

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On this episode of the R&G Tech Studio podcast, Ropes & Gray partners and co-leaders of the firm’s AI initiative, Megan Baca and Ed McNicholas, delve into the key implications of President Trump’s new AI Executive Order...more

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President Trump Pulls the Plug on Controversial AI Diffusion Rule

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In a highly anticipated move, the Trump administration has announced that it will rescind and replace the AI Diffusion Rule issued by the Commerce Department during the last weeks of the Biden administration. Set to take...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

Commerce Department Investigates National Security of Semiconductors, and US Attorney Indicts AI CEO for Fraud — AI: The...

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

King & Spalding

Trump Administration Early Executive Orders Signal Shift in AI Policy

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Since returning to office, President Trump quickly issued two executive orders that mark a significant shift in the federal government’s approach to artificial intelligence regulation and oversight (“Trump AI EOs”). These...more

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Taking Stock – Summary of BIS Actions From Fall 2024, and Peek at What Is Next Under the Trump Administration

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President Trump’s first months in office have been busy, but, in the export control world, we have been grateful for a brief respite from the mind-bending, hundreds-of-pages-long, industry-changing rules that the US...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Cross-border Investment Review and New Restrictions

Navigating the complex landscape of foreign investment review is crucial for private equity (PE) firms operating in an international landscape. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) continues to be...more

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

A New Executive Order Has Been Issued on Artificial Intelligence

On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump revoked former President Joe Biden’s executive order related to the utilization of artificial intelligence (“AI”). The now-revoked executive order was originally issued on October...more

WilmerHale

Hic Sunt Dracones: Biden’s BIS Issues Last Minute Export Controls, Most of Which Appear to Escape Trump’s Regulatory Freeze

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In the last few days of the Biden Administration, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a flurry of new, noteworthy rules targeting national security risks in the science and...more

Perkins Coie

Trump Reverses Biden's AI Policy and Charts New Course on AI

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Among the over 70 executive orders rescinded by President Trump on his first day in office was President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence (EO 14110). Three days later, President Trump issued his own AI...more

Goodwin

Trump 2.0 Week 1 Tech Policy Rundown: Pivot on AI but Data Rules Stand

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It would be an understatement to say that the Trump administration has had a busy first week. Within just a few hours of the new administration coming into power, it repealed a number of Biden-era executive orders across a...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

AI: Broad Biden Order Is Withdrawn, but Replacement Policies Are Yet To Be Drafted

On January 23, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence” (Trump AI Executive Order). The Trump AI Executive Order assigns select...more

Alston & Bird

Trump Administration Rescinds Biden Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

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What Happened? Last week, President Trump signed an Executive Order that rescinded the Biden Administration’s October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence....more

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White House AI Executive Order Sets its Sights on Free-Market Innovation - Increased state-level regulation potentially on the...

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On January 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the Executive Order (EO) Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. The artificial intelligence (AI)- focused EO is anticipated by the White House...more

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Last Minute Biden Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Executive Orders Survive Initial Trump Revocations

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In the final week of the Biden Administration’s term in office, former President Biden issued two high profile executive orders that could have significant ramifications for the cybersecurity and technology industries. The...more

DLA Piper

Commerce Department Unveils New Rules on Responsible Diffusion of Artificial Intelligence Technology

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During its last week before the inauguration, the Biden Administration issued significant and complex new export controls on semiconductors and related technology for artificial intelligence (AI) applications worldwide. These...more

A&O Shearman

President Trump rescinds Biden’s AI executive order and announces AI investment with technology leaders

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On January 20, 2025, President Trump rescinded the Biden administration’s sweeping executive order (“AI Executive Order”) that focused on regulating AI. This development immediately terminates the implementation of key safety...more

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Trump Administration Issues New AI Executive Order

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The Trump Administration has issued a new Executive Order (EO) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that previews the new direction for federal AI policy. As we noted in a recent update, one of President Trump’s first actions in...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

President Trump Starts First Week with AI Executive Orders and Investments — AI: The Washington Report

In his first week in office, President Trump took three significant actions on AI that lay the foundation for a new deregulatory approach to AI at the federal level. On Inauguration Day, Trump repealed President Biden’s...more

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Beginning of a Federal AI Policy Shift - Revocation of the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on AI

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On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order revoking 78 executive orders issued by the Biden administration. Among these was the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

2023 AI Safety Executive Order Revoked and What Lies Ahead for AI

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On President Trump’s first day in office, he rescinded 78 Biden-era Executive Orders via an Executive Order Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions (EO 14145). On the list of rescinded Executive Orders is...more

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President Trump Orders Review of Recently-Implemented Outbound Investment Security Program

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On August 9, 2023, former-President Biden issued Executive Order 14105, Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern, which in summary directed the U.S....more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Flurry of National Security Regulations Issued as Biden Administration Departs

The U.S. Commerce Department and other regulatory agencies published regulations at a furious pace as the Biden administration came to a close this month. These new regulations appear to be primarily aimed at restricting...more

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