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White House Releases AI Action Plan: Key Legal and Strategic Takeaways for Industry

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 7/30/2025

- What is new: The Trump administration’s AI Action Plan reflects a striking shift in approach, with the federal government driving development, expansion and regulation, focusing on deregulation, permitting, procurement and...more

White House Unveils "America's AI Action Plan"

Baker Botts L.L.P. on 7/29/2025

On July 23, 2025, the White House published its much-anticipated “America’s AI Action Plan” (the Plan), a comprehensive strategy designed to advance U.S. global leadership in artificial intelligence (AI). Developed under the...more

Client Alert: Trump Administration Releases AI Action Plan and Three Executive Orders: Key Implications for Business Strategy

Jenner & Block on 7/25/2025

On July 23, 2025, the Trump administration debuted its long-awaited AI Action Plan (the Plan), identifying a range of policies to be implemented across the federal government to “usher in a new golden age of human...more

Recent Federal Strike Force Prosecutions Serve as Warning to U.S. Manufacturers and Other Exporters

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 9/27/2024

The recent enforcement activities of the newest federal strike force serve as a warning to U.S. manufacturers and other businesses involved in the export of products that the government is doubling down on prosecuting trade...more

Escalation of U.S. Crackdown on Chinese Technology and Telecoms: Emerging Issues

Womble Bond Dickinson on 8/31/2023

In recent years, the U.S. has pursued a whole-of-government approach to target Chinese technology and service providers in furtherance of foreign policy and national security objectives....more

United States Continues Expansion of Export Control Sanctions on Chinese Companies

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 2/17/2023

Ongoing tensions between the United States and China have resulted in an expansion of U.S. export controls and trade sanctions against China. The Biden Administration’s October 2022 National Security Strategy (“2022 NSS”)...more

M&A in 2022 and Trends for 2023

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 1/23/2023

Following a year of unprecedented M&A deal activity, 2022 saw the global M&A market settle back into a more familiar pace. The year finished 38.8% lower than 2021’s record level, but only 9.3% lower than 2015-2019 averages,...more

Biden Administration Restricts U.S. Exports of Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment, Software, and...

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 11/28/2022

On October 7, 2022, the Biden Administration announced new restrictions on exports to China of advanced integrated circuits (“ICs”), computers and components containing advanced ICs, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and...more

The Great Wall of China – Increasing Difficulty in Doing Business with China

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 11/10/2022

In recent months, the tightrope Israel has been walking between its desire for cooperation with China and its commitment to maintaining normal relations with the United States has been stretched even further. The Israeli...more

US Drops New Export Controls on the Chinese Semiconductor, Advanced Computing, and Supercomputer Industries

ArentFox Schiff on 10/11/2022

On Friday, October 7, 2022, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released an interim final rule containing an enormous set of export controls that will likely damage the Chinese semiconductor, advanced computing, and...more

U.S. National Security Issues in Cross-Border Food, Beverage & Agribusiness Deals

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 11/4/2021

On October 28, 2021, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced the Food Security is National Security Act of 2021 (the “Act”). Among other things, the Act would require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United...more

Trade Matters - November 2021

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 11/3/2021

1. New Cybersecurity Export Controls From BIS Go Into Effect in January - The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has released an interim final rule establishing new export controls on certain cybersecurity items and...more

Reminder Regarding the Jurisdictional Reach and Limits of U.S. Export Control, Sanctions, and Foreign Investment Regulations

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/21/2020

United States export control, sanctions, and foreign investment (CFIUS) regulations advance U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, but in very different ways. They are also quite complex. As a result, media...more

Commerce Adopts Export Controls on Artificial Intelligence Software for Geospacial Imagery – Controls on Additional Technologies...

Williams Mullen on 1/27/2020

On January 6, 2020 the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) within the Commerce Department adopted export licensing requirements on certain artificial intelligence software used to automate the analysis of geospatial...more

US Issues First Unilateral Export Control on Artificial Intelligence Software

ArentFox Schiff on 1/7/2020

This software now requires a BIS authorization to be exported or reexported to all countries except for Canada. Companies that develop or use artificial intelligence (AI) to solve geospatial problems or in geospatial...more

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