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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

White House Reveals AI Action Plan

On July 23, 2025, the White House released “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan”, in accordance with President Trump’s January executive order on Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI. As outlined by the...more

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President Trump Signs Law with Over $1 Billion of AI Funding, and US Rescinds Chip Export Restrictions to China - AI: The...

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which allocates over $1 billion toward advancing the federal government’s use of AI. The funding package reinforces the administration’s...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

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House Select Committee Publishes Report on DeepSeek, as Commerce Imposes New AI Chip Export Restrictions — AI: The Washington...

On April 16, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published a report on the Chinese company DeepSeek’s AI model with findings from the committee’s investigation into DeepSeek. The report...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

A Roadmap for Export Controls? Project 2025 and the Future of U.S. Exports – Part I

The second Trump administration has come flying out of the starting blocks on international trade policy actions—imposing and rescinding, shaping and reshaping tariffs, sanctions, and export controls. The executive orders and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Who is Stacking the Chips: U.S. Commerce Department Launches Section 232 Investigation into Semiconductor Imports

On April 16, 2025, the Department of Commerce announced that it initiated an investigation on April 1, 2025, under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, into imports of semiconductors, semiconductor manufacturing equipment...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Trump Launches $1 Billion Plus Investment Fast Track with New Executive Order

The new federal office aims to accelerate mega-investments and revamp CHIPS Act oversight. Against the backdrop of rising global competition and ongoing industrial policy debates, on March 31, 2025, President Trump...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Establishing the United States Investment Accelerator (Trump EO Tracker)

Establishes the United States Investment Accelerator office within the Department of Commerce to facilitate and accelerate investments above $1 billion in the United States. The office will assist investors in navigating...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Trump Administration’s First Export Control Action – Reading the Tea Leaves

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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

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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

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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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

National Security: Trump Orders Review of Export, Supply Chain, ‘Reverse CFIUS’ Rules

Several of President Donald Trump’s initial actions — from an executive order instituting a new artificial intelligence (AI) policy framework, to those directing the use of the U.S. military to provide border security, the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Space Law, Regulation and Policy Update | January 24, 2025 #2

Good Afternoon! Forget the past two weeks, it’s been a busy week in the business of space. Since President Trump’s inauguration, Washington has been busy shuffling the deck on U.S. space leadership and priorities. Outside...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Biden Administration Carries Forward Trump Era Executive Order Scrutinizing Imports And Sales Of Certain Communications Technology...

On March 22, 2021, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) interim final rule to implement provisions of Executive Order 13873 on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services (ICTS) Supply Chain became...more

Wiley Rein LLP

A Final Trump EO Would Regulate Cloud, Software and Remote Computing Services

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On January 19, 2021, President Trump issued an Executive Order on Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities (EO), designed to regulate United...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Commerce Department Takes Steps To Thwart Use of Information and Communications Technology and Services Associated With Foreign...

On November 27, 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) published a proposed rule that would establish a new and especially broad power for the U.S. government to review and potentially block or unwind transactions...more

White & Case LLP

Department of Commerce Invites Comments on Proposed Rule Targeting Information and Communications Technology Transactions

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On November 27, 2019, the US Department of Commerce (Commerce) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking on the implementation of Executive Order 13873 (the EO), "Securing the Information and Communications Technology and...more

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US Administration Tests the Water on New Unheard-of Government Review of International Technology Transactions

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Under this new evaluation process, Commerce can prohibit companies from engaging in a wide variety of transactions and order them to cease using the information technology or telecommunication system in question even if it is...more

Holland & Knight LLP

The Drama Around Huawei: Can U.S. Companies Do Business with the Chinese Chipmaker? - Huawei Seems to Be a Bargaining Chip in...

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• President Donald Trump saying at the recent G20 Summit in Japan that American companies could keep selling products to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei) was another installment in the drama surrounding the Chinese tech...more

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US government targets tech giant Huawei in China trade war

Consistent with the ongoing United States (US) strategy of limiting engagement with China in the high-tech sector (especially telecommunications) on national security grounds, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New Executive Order To Further Restrict Business with Huawei and Other Foreign Adversaries Engaged in Cyber Espionage

On May 15, 2019, President Trump issued an Executive Order (“EO”) targeting activities of certain foreign telecommunications companies based in hostile countries. Entitled “Securing the Information and Communications...more

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New Executive Order Will Impact Ability of U.S. Companies to Use Certain Technologies Deemed a Security Risk

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President Donald J. Trump signed and issued an Executive Order (EO) on May 15, 2019, declaring a national emergency with respect to threats against U.S. information and communications technology or services (I&C Technologies)...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden's 2019 Insights: Enhanced US Export Controls and Aggressive Enforcement Likely to Impact China

Tariffs targeting Chinese imports into the United States garnered headlines throughout 2018. However, during the latter part of the year, the U.S. government more quietly initiated efforts that in 2019 and beyond could be...more

Holland & Knight LLP

FY 2019 Administration Budget Request

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President Donald Trump on February 12, 2018, submitted his budget request to Congress for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. The President's full budget calls for approximately $4.4 trillion in total spending. Much of the budget seeks...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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A collection of corporate heavy hitters are betting big on the blockchain technology behind bitcoin rival Ethereum to build a computing system to track data and financial contracts. The project is seen by some as a way to...more

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