Antitrust

Read about the House and Senate NDAA developments and the CDAO’s AI contract awards in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

The Whistleblower Rewards Program is expected to help resolve issues with detection of hardcore antitrust conduct by incentivizing individual reporting to the DOJ with the prospect of a lucrative reward for whistleblower reports that successfully result in a substantial criminal fine.

Read about the administration’s latest actions on AI funding and export policy and what they signal for US competitiveness and national security in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about the Senate’s removal of the AI moratorium and the administration’s energy and infrastructure push to support AI expansion,  in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about the Senate’s proposed bipartisan Preventing Deep Fake Scams Act and the implications of the reconciliation package’s energy provisions in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

In this week’s edition of AI: The Washington Report, we analyze the significance of the government’s AI Action Plan, and how Sacks plans to work with the US private sector to further advance the country’s position on AI. 

Read about the implications of the new Executive Order on AI and cybersecurity and the Senate’s tactical revisions to the state-level moratorium in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI. 

Read about the proposed federal moratorium on state AI laws and the legal implications of the court decision on AI and free speech in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI. 

Read about the FTC’s resource needs to enforce the TAKE IT DOWN Act, the Trump administration’s AI infrastructure plans through advanced nuclear power, and the implications of the developments for future AI policy in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about the TAKE IT DOWN Act, the AI measures passed by the House as part of the budget reconciliation package, and the $200 billion US-UAE data center deal in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about the US Copyright Office’s third Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Report and the House Committee’s reconciliation package in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about the policy shift reflected in the Trump administration’s decision to repeal the AI Diffusion Rule and the FTC’s recent action against Workado in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Several Trump Administration antitrust enforcers have written or spoken about the direction of conservative antitrust enforcement policy. 

Congress Passes AI Deepfake Law, Trump Signs EO on AI Education – AI: The Washington Report

In this week’s AI: The Washington Report, we unpick the details of the House Select Committee’s findings and analyze the restrictions places on Nvidia’s chip exports.

Read about recent federal activity surrounding semiconductor imports, AI export controls, and the first AI-related fraud prosecution under the new administration in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

The FTC—led by Chairman Andrew Ferguson—launched a public inquiry this week into “how federal regulations can harm competition in the American economy.

Read about the new OMB memoranda and Executive Order, and their implications for federal AI policy and infrastructure development in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about the DOJ’s latest filing, the implications of the recent court dismissal, and what these developments suggest about the evolving legal landscape for algorithmic pricing in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about DC Circuit’s reinforcement of the human authorship requirement under US copyright law and the NIST’s newly finalized guidance on mitigating adversarial attacks targeting AI systems in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.