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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...

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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...

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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...

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Tech Workforce/H-1B Visas

Late last week, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) imposing a new, incremental $100,000 fee for H-1B petitions. Two days later, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – as directed by the EO – issued a proposed rulemaking to implement a weighted selection process that would generally favor the allocation of H-1B visas to higher...

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International Digital Taxes/Regulation

President Trump continues to signal his alignment with large U.S. tech firms, most recently reflected in his hosting of industry leaders (e.g., Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, others) at the White House. Meanwhile, his allies in Congress are highlighting censorship of U.S. citizens abroad and foreign discrimination against...

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With California lawmakers having passed new AI legislation - and that bill awaiting Governor Newsom’s approval - Republican discussions around a possible moratorium on state-level AI laws are beginning to reemerge.