LexNext DC Tech Tracker
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Small Business Doubling Down on AI
November 5, 2025By Paul Steidler: Think AI is just for big businesses, government, or large academic institutions? An October 2025 study finds that small businesses have quickly adopted AI to become more efficient an ...
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Meet the Likely Next FTC Commissioner: Ryan Baasch
October 30, 2025By Paul Steidler: Bloomberg News reported late yesterday that Ryan Baasch (“Bash”), who serves on the National Economic Council (NEC), will soon be nominated by President Trump to serve as a Commissio ...
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Kanter’s Wrong: Data Center Power Won’t Be a Major Antitrust Issue
October 22, 2025By Paul Steidler: In a disturbing October 21 story, “Data-Center Power Use to Become Major Antitrust Issue,” The Wall Street Journal gave a forum to Jonathan Kanter, the chief antitrust official in th ...
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Senator Sanders’ Doom Campaign on AI and Jobs
October 14, 2025By Paul Steidler: Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders is raising alarms about artificial intelligence and robotics, warning that they could destroy nearly 100 million U.S. jobs in a decade, according ...
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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 ...