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Analyzing the Overlap Between CFIUS and FOCI
A Comprehensive Overview of FOCI Mitigation
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AI Post-Election – Initial Government Insights
Mitigating FOCI Under Section 847
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Everyone Come to Play: Exploring FOCI Mitigation Instruments
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On March 25, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a significant expansion of its Entity List restrictions, adding 80 entities from China, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa,...more
The Trump administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy received 8,755 comments in response to its Request for Information for the development of its AI Action Plan implementing the Trump AI Executive Order issued...more
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has released a pair of long-awaited rules that impose additional export controls on advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs) and artificial intelligence (AI)...more
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is seeking input on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan being developed by the Administration, in a Request for Information (RFI) published on February...more
DeepSeek, a startup AI company owned by a Chinese hedge fund, which is in turn owned by a young AI whiz-kid, Liang Wenfeng, claims that its newly released V-3 software-R1 was trained inexpensively and without using NVIDIA’s...more
On January 13, 2025, the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released an interim final rule establishing (i) expanded export licensing requirements for the export of advanced computing integrated...more
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 Last week, President Trump signed an Executive Order that rescinded the Biden Administration’s October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence....more
On January 27, 2025, the global tech industry experienced a seismic shift with the introduction of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup that unveiled an impressive large language model (LLM). This new...more
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
On January 13, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR), establishing new export controls targeting advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips and model...more
Key Points - - Pro-growth policies and reduced regulation could create significant opportunities for increased M&A in 2025. - Lower interest rates, moderating inflation and rising stock market valuations may also...more
With the rapid commercialization of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the Biden administration has been grappling with its implications, including its potential impact on national security. Several departments have...more
Against the backdrop of increasing international competition in the artificial intelligence (AI) space, the Enhancing National Frameworks for Overseas Critical Exports Act (the ENFORCE Act) was recently introduced in the U.S....more
The growth of cloud services, Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (“IaaS”) arrangements, Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) models, and increased reliance on the use outsourced technology service...more
Through the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA), which was enacted in August 2018, Congress directed the U.S. Department of Commerce to conduct an interagency review process to identify “emerging and foundational...more
Key Points - On January 6, 2020, BIS published an interim final rule to add a new worldwide (minus Canada) unilateral export control on a type of geospatial imagery software specially designed for training Deep...more