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Q1 2025 New York Artificial Intelligence Developments: What Employers Should Know About Proposed and Passed AI Legislation

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In the first part of 2025, New York joined other states, such as Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Texas, seeking to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) at the state level. Specifically, on 8 January 2025, bills...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – U.S. appeals court affirms that wholly AI-generated content is not eligible for copyright protection, OpenAI and...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The UK Continues to Expand Its Controls on Emerging Technologies

On 11 March 2025, the Department for Business and Trade through the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU), issued a notice to exporters providing advance notice of updates to the UK Strategic Export Control Lists, which are...more

DLA Piper

Interstellar Insights - March 2025

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Congress is prioritizing new legislation to authorize NASA and support commercial space activities. The proposed bills aim to maintain a vibrant commercial space sector by streamlining licensing regulations and ensuring that...more

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Qualms About Quantum: New Export Controls Advanced Tech Aligns US Policies With Allied Countries

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On September 6, 2024, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) introduced an interim final rule that imposed worldwide export controls on slew of advanced technologies to align with the...more

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Public Hearing Opened on National Circular Economy Plan

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In accordance with Federal Decree No. 12,082/2024, which established the National Circular Economy Strategy (which we explored in a July 2024 Legal Update), a public hearing has been opened for the development of the National...more

DLA Piper

The Digital Networks Act: A New Era for EU Telecoms Regulation

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With the upcoming Digital Networks Act, the European Union will transform the regulatory landscape for electronic communications networks (ECN) and electronic communications services (ECS). This ambitious legislation aims to...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Artists Protest AI Copyright Proposal in the U.K.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to turn the U.K. into an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower to help grow the British economy by using policies that he describes as “pro-innovation.” One of these policies...more

Woods Rogers

Shaking Up Federal Grants: What to Expect Under the Trump Administration

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Partnerships between the government and private companies are key drivers of innovation. A study of U.S. patents from 1982 to 2012 found collaborations with the federal government produce more “disruptive” inventions than...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

Patchwork 2.0: FAQs on Emerging US State AI Laws and What to Do About Them

US privacy lawyers have long used the “patchwork” metaphor to describe the US privacy legal landscape. Early signs suggest that metaphor may also soon apply to US AI regulation: Colorado adopted An Act Concerning Consumer...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Akin Space Law, Regulation and Policy Update | March 7, 2025

Good Afternoon! It was a busy couple of weeks on the Moon! Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost became the second commercial spacecraft to successfully land on the Moon. It later achieved another first by successfully acquiring and...more

Pillsbury - CommLawCenter

National Association of Broadcasters Urges FCC to Accelerate NextGen TV Transition

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) yesterday filed a Petition for Rulemaking asking the FCC to establish a “clear timeline” to complete the transition to the ATSC 3.0 (a/k/a “NextGen TV”) television transmission...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Virginia’s Artificial Intelligence Bill Nears the Finish Line

Déjà vu all over again: after Colorado and Virginia established competing standards for comprehensive privacy laws in 2021, history appears to be repeating itself in the artificial intelligence (AI) space. Virginia’s...more

Epstein Becker & Green

President Trump’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan Takes Shape as NSF, OSTP Seek Comments

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On January 23, 2025, as one of the first actions of his second term, President Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 14179, “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,”  making good on a campaign promise...more

Pillsbury - Global Sourcing Practice

AI Action Paris Summit 2025: Key Takeaways on Global AI Governance

The AI Action Summit brought together a wide-ranging assembly of influential figures to discuss the future of artificial intelligence (AI) governance, risk mitigation and international cooperation. The attendees included...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

White House Seeks Public Input on AI Action Plan

The White House is gathering industry feedback on AI governance, giving stakeholders an opportunity to shape future policy....more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Copyright Office Advises on Copyrightability of Generative AI Works

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On January 29, the U.S. Copyright Office published the second part of a planned three-part report on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI), this time focused on the question of copyrightability for AI-generated creative...more

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Tech M&A Poised for Growth in 2025 Despite Temporary Challenges

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Continued AI innovation, pent-up cash balances, and the potential for renewed investor optimism and increased regulatory clarity will likely drive dealmaking later this year, after the bout of market uncertainty subsides....more

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Here Comes Compliance with the EU AI Act

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Artificial intelligence reached another milestone at the start of February, this one particularly relevant for corporate compliance officers: on February 2, 2025, the first five articles of the EU AI Act went into effect....more

McDermott Will & Emery

Assessing Inputs: Determining AI’s Role in US Intellectual Property Protections

The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) issued additional guidance on the contribution of artificial intelligence (AI) in its January 2025 AI Strategy. Similarly, the US Copyright Office issued part two of its “Copyright and...more

DLA Piper

How Many Neurons Must a System Compute Before You Can Call It AI? Unpicking the Guidelines on the AI Act’s Definition of...

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Bob Dylan famously asked, “How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man?”. The power of the question is that there is no answer – and comparing the tribulations of one person’s journey through life to...more

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A New Era in U.S. Energy: Wright’s Focus

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This week marks a pivotal moment in U.S. Energy history. With Chris Wright confirmed as U.S. Energy Secretary, he and President Trump are set to pursue their promise of a "Golden Era of American Energy Dominance." Their...more

Fenwick & West LLP

U.S. Imposes New Export Controls on Advanced Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Chips

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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

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SEC 2025 Examination Priorities Shine Light on AI

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Changes in available financial technology are changing the way the SEC’s Division of Examinations will examine registered firms. The division’s recently released 2025 examination priorities focus on the emerging risks posed...more

DLA Piper

EU AI Act’s Ban on Prohibited Practices Takes Effect

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The first compliance deadline set out in the European Union (EU)’s Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, or the EU AI Act, took effect on February 2, 2025. ...more

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