LexNext DC Tech Tracker
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AI Adoption Fuels Small Business Growth and Optimism
October 7, 2025By Paul Steidler: A recent nationwide study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reveals that artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the landscape for America’s small businesses, driving gr ...
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What the Numbers Say About the Amazon Prime Settlement
September 26, 2025By Paul Steidler: The Amazon Prime settlement, announced yesterday between Amazon and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), shows that there was exceedingly little, if any, harm to Amazon Prime customer ...
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Letter to FCC: Update Spectrum for Internet from LEO Space
September 24, 2025By Rebecca Grant: Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is an economic hot spot. Constellations of thousands of satellites can offer high-speed, low-latency broadband internet connectivity to urban and rural communi ...
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The U.N., China, and AI: A Guide to this Week’s Theatre
September 24, 2025By: Paul Steidler: There is quite a lot of talk about AI at the United Nations General Assembly this week, most of which will not matter in the real world. What is key to watch for, though, is how clo ...
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AI Values Take Center Stage in Senate Hearing, Sen. Cruz Announcement
September 10, 2025By Paul Steidler: A pivotal development at today's hearing of the U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness was Senator Ted Cruz announcing he will introduce a l ...
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The Win Goes to Google, and it’s Good News for the U.S. in AI
September 8, 2025By Rebecca Grant: The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division said it “won significant remedies” in its online search monopolization case against Google in United States et al. v. Google, delivered Se ...
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White House Task Force on AI Education Making Its Mark
September 5, 2025By Paul Steidler: AI is here to stay. It is going to transform how children learn and, when properly applied, will make them much better educated. Thus, it is important for children and education prof ...
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Lutnick: Why U.S. May Take Equity Stake in Intel
August 22, 2025By Rebecca Grant: The U.S. needs its advanced chip makers to counter China in AI. Hence Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is sorting out the situation with Intel. “We should get an equity stake f ...
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Five Questions for the U.S. Department of Justice on Google
August 21, 2025By Paul Steidler: Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is expected to make his remedies ruling any day in the Google search case. Whatever his ruling, two things ...
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Virginia Unleashes AI to Eliminate Unnecessary Government Regulations
August 15, 2025By Paul Steidler: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is using AI to go after and eliminate unnecessary state government regulations, doing so in a big and bold way. This first-in-the-nation program is r ...