LexNext DC Tech Tracker
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FTC’s Public Meetings Show a Glaring Deficiency in Its Antitrust Cases
April 23, 2025By Paul Steidler: As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proceeds with a trial against Meta and gears up for another on September 22 against Amazon related to Prime, it should reconsider its priorities ...
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NVIDIA Comes Home with “Made in the USA” Supercomputer
April 15, 2025April 15, 2025 By Rebecca Grant: For the first time, American powerhouse NVIDIA will build supercomputers entirely in the USA. The advanced Blackwell semi-conductor chips will be made in Phoenix, Ari ...
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The EU’s Anti-Coercion Instrument: What it Means for Tech and Tariffs
April 10, 2025By Paul Steidler: The European Union’s (EU’s) Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) is being widely categorized in the media as Europe’s “nuclear option” or “bazooka” for taking on the Trump Administration w ...
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The Many Policy Ramifications of the Bedoya-Slaughter FTC Lawsuit
March 31, 2025By Paul Steidler: Two former Democrat members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, filed a federal lawsuit on March 27 seeking to overturn their March 18 f ...
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Fired FTC Commissioners and the Need for Judicial Temperament
March 19, 2025By Paul Steidler: The judicial and public prestige of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took another hit yesterday and it is not because President Trump fired the two Democrat commissioners. The firi ...
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The Budget Deficit, AI, and Measuring Progress
March 11, 2025By Paul Steidler: This week Congress again wrestles with avoiding a government shutdown as the Congressional Budget Office projects the Fiscal Year 2025 federal deficit will hit $1.9 trillion. There h ...
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EU Comes to DC, Meets with Trump Tech Officials and Trashes Them
March 5, 2025By Paul Steidler: Last week, a delegation of seven European Parliament members met with numerous officials of the Trump Administration – and wasted no time publicly trashing them. The delegation was l ...
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U.S. Ups the Ante Over EU Attacks on American Tech Businesses
February 25, 2025By Paul Steidler: Talk about some hard-edge follow-through. On Friday, February 21, President Trump signed an Executive Order directing the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to investigate countries th ...
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The Reverberations of J.D. Vance’s Landmark AI Speech
February 18, 2025By Paul Steidler: On February 10, Vice President J.D. Vance gave a major speech on AI to world leaders and tech luminaires that is likely to go down in importance with President Kennedy’s 1962 speech ...
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DOGE 101: The One Agency Act
February 11, 2025By Paul Steidler: With the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) getting a bevy of provocative, dramatic headlines, it is easy to forget that there are plenty of important ways the government can ...