Insights: Tech / Media / Telecom

Tech / Media / Telecom

Antitrust (Meta, Amazon, Apple)

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled in favor of Meta Platforms Inc., rejecting the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) antitrust lawsuit that sought to unwind the company's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.

Tech / Media / Telecom

The Trump administration is considering issuing an Executive Order (EO) that would attempt to impose through various means a moratorium on state-level AI laws and regulations.

Energy, Tech / Media / Telecom

Data Centers/Energy Usage

The increasingly visible rise in electricity prices was a prominent issue in last week’s elections in GA, NJ, and VA. Electricity costs are among a multitude of issues that relate to broader voter concern about the cost of living/affordability, which is increasingly dominating the policy dialogue at both the state and federal level. As a result,...

Tech / Media / Telecom

AI/Semiconductors

While the Commerce Department recently tightened some pre-existing restrictions on chip sales to China, Trump’s more general policy has been to allow for sales of advanced chips (e.g., sales of Nvidia H20 to China and Gulf nations, comments suggesting openness to selling China the more advanced Blackwell chip.) This has generated concern among...

Tech / Media / Telecom

Export Controls/China/Semiconductors

The Commerce Department issued a rule that would add to its entity list (blacklist) any subsidiaries that are at least 50% owned by a company already on the entity list. Firms on the entity list are not allowed to contract with U.S. firms unless the Commerce Department grants the U.S. firm a license to do so. The entity list expansion is not...

Tech / Media / Telecom

Antitrust (Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon)

The DOJ’s antitrust actions against Google have continued to advance this month. Earlier this month, the District Court for D.C. issued a series of remedies against Google following its finding last summer that the company illegally maintained a monopoly in the “general search services and general text advertising” markets. And this week, the...