LexNext DC Tech Tracker
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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 ...
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Lina Khan’s Obsessive, Out-the-Door Tech Bashing Op-Ed
February 5, 2025By Paul Steidler: Yesterday, the New York Times published an illogical Op-Ed from former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan, blaming U.S. technology leaders for creating the conditions tha ...
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China’s DeepSeek AI Coup: Three Takeaways for U.S. Policymakers
January 31, 2025By Paul Steidler: On Monday, January 27, as the Nasdaq Composite was getting routed on news that a small Chinese startup had launched a similar app to ChatGPT at a fraction of the cost, President Trum ...
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Trump Cleans Up AI Policy to Beat China
January 27, 2025By Rebecca Grant: AI is at the top of President Donald J. Trump’s priorities for his second term, and he’s starting by cleaning house. Fulfilling a campaign pledge, on January 20, the White House revo ...
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Stargate: “Put that name down in your books,” says Pres. Trump
January 22, 2025By Rebecca Grant: At the White House Jan. 21, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison joined President Donald Trump to announce the formation of Stargate. ...
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FTC Investigates AI Collusion – and Finds Nothing
January 21, 2025By Paul Steidler: On Lina Khan’s last full day as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the FTC issued a long-anticipated report on one of her top priorities for the past year – investigating h ...
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Biden’s Parting Shot on AI
January 14, 2025By Rebecca Grant: The Department of Commerce dropped the Regulatory Framework for the Responsible Diffusion of Advanced Artificial Intelligence Technology on Jan. 13, and outgoing President Joe Biden ...
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U.S. Treasury Targeted: Cybercriminals Compromise Critical Data
January 8, 2025By Paul Steidler: In a bold cyberattack, hackers breached the U.S. Treasury Department on December 8, infiltrating its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the agency responsible for administering ...
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Commerce AI Diffusion Export Rule: House China Committee Reacts
January 7, 2025By Rebecca Grant: Here it comes. With just days left in the Biden administration, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo is understood to be on the verge of dropping a finalized Export Control Framework ...
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Cantwell, Cruz: Rethink “Draconian” Market Caps on International Chip Sales
December 20, 2024By Rebecca Grant: Driving international sales of chips to China’s Huawei is not a good outcome. Yet that’s exactly what might happen if President Joe Biden’s outgoing team releases a rumored draft Exe ...