Artificial Intelligence – Why it matters now
Looking for something more advanced than your average export controls conference? Go beyond the basics at ACI’s 2nd Annual Advanced Forum on Global Export Controls. This premier event offers cutting-edge insights and...more
Government officials underscored the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) enforcement and data protection during the American Bar Association’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime in March 2024. Specifically,...more
The Disruptive Technology Strike Force hosted a summit on Feb. 7-8, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona, to commemorate its one-year anniversary. The Strike Force is an interagency law enforcement effort aimed at preventing...more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous in today’s corporate lexicon. And while much has been said, and written, about AI, the question still remains: what, exactly, is AI? Or, more aptly for this discussion, what...more
Welcome to our Q2 Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Update. As you can tell from the update, Q2 was a busy quarter in this space from both a regulatory, legislative, civil litigation and criminal litigation perspective....more
The Justice Department has made it clear that it intends to prioritize criminal prosecution of national security cases to prevent hostile nation-states from illegally acquiring sensitive U.S technology. To this end, DOJ...more
Earlier this year, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that it was launching the Disruptive Technology Strike Force (“Strike Force”) in an effort “to target illicit actors, strengthen supply chains and...more
On April 28, 2023, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Rachel Rollins, joined by national and local federal enforcement officials from the Disruptive Technology Strike Force (DTSF), described the DTSF mission and...more
1. BIS, DOJ Technology Strike Force to Investigate Disruptive Technologies On February 16, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced the creation of...more
The joint Strike Force will focus on shielding advanced US technology from nation-state adversaries and on prosecuting export controls violations. On February 16, 2023, the US Departments of Justice and Commerce announced...more
Seeking to protect critical U.S. technological assets from being acquired or used by nation-state adversaries, last week Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the launch of the Disruptive Technology Strike Force....more
The federal government sent another big signal that it’s stepping up efforts to keep cutting-edge, dual-use and military technologies out of the hands of adversarial foreign governments when it announced the launch of the...more
Since the internet became ubiquitous during the 1990s, only a handful of technologies have been developed that are so far-reaching they put ethical and legal questions to the test. Among these select few is artificial...more
So much of our lives is reliant upon computing, and quantum computing has the potential to upend the encryption we rely upon, as well as scientific fields of study. This post explores this exciting, entirely new form of...more
While we often speak of nuclear power in terms of electricity production for our homes and businesses, it also has a number of other uses, including nuclear power and propulsion for space and maritime use, and there are a...more
Back in 2013, I wrote a blog post about 3D printing and whether it was going to be the next “big thing.” At the time, the commentary within manufacturing circles was mixed, at best, as manufacturing leaders wondered whether...more
State attorneys general continue to become more influential as they drive legal innovation and policy change at the state and federal levels. This article discusses trends in AG activity, enforcement priorities, the impact of...more
We recently published a blog about a very new and emerging threat coined “disruptionware,” now faced by workforces in multiple industries – especially focused on workers employed in government and in the health care sector....more
The healthcare industry is facing significant disruption from new market entrants and technology innovations that have the potential to improve how care is delivered, to lower healthcare costs, and to improve healthcare...more
More and more, when people discuss the automotive industry, they refer to “mobility”. The word is not new. Even a quick online search will find it used as far back as 2016. Back then, an early proposed definition was...more
Prognosticators have long predicted technological advancements that will drastically change the retail industry. Retail-oriented technological innovations are “hitting the shelves” as quickly as the advent of new products,...more
It's been a year since the European Commission published its Fifth Report on the application of the European Product Liability Directive (the "Directive") and set up expert panels to develop its thinking on next policy steps....more
Digital disruption and its impact on physical retailers once again weighed on the consumer sector in 2018. Consumer M&A volume was down 13 percent year-on-year to 465 deals in 2018. Value decreased 28 percent to US$119...more
Disruptive Forces 2 - - Netflix – a threat to broadcast and cable TV operators? - Amazon – a threat to grocery and retail more broadly? - Apple and Facebook – a threat to would-be rivals? - Google – a threat to...more
2017 was another active year for mergers and acquisitions, both in the United States and globally, though the overall dollar volume of deals continued to lag behind 2015’s record levels. Global M&A activity was relatively...more