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CISA Releases Findings from its AI Pilot Program on Detecting Critical Vulnerabilities

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On July 28, 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that they piloted an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled vulnerability program to help detect and remediate vulnerabilities in the U.S....more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Checkpoints Ahead: Parsing the AI Risk Environment

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Since generative AI burst into the mainstream, companies have raced to capitalize on its extraordinary promise. But as with any technological frontier, this promise does not come without risks, and companies can expect to...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded Technology Law Insights, V 5, Issue 4, May 2024

MIT Report Details New Cybersecurity Risks - “Cloud misconfigurations, more sophisticated ransomware, and vendor exploitation attacks are contributing to rising cyberattacks.” Why this is important: Worldwide spending...more

Epstein Becker & Green

San Francisco Releases Generative AI Guidelines for City Workers

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On December 11, 2023, the City of San Francisco released the San Francisco Generative AI Guidelines (“Guidelines”).  The Guidelines set forth parameters for City employees, contractors, consultants, volunteers, and vendors...more

The Volkov Law Group

Biden Administration Issues Sweeping Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

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The Biden Administration issued a sweeping Executive Order directing a broad set of government actions addressing consumer harms, discrimination, privacy protections and other issues stemming from the widespread use of...more

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Unpacking the Executive Order on AI (for Cybersecurity)

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The race to leverage the digital transformation potential for generative artificial intelligence (AI) has reached fever-pitch levels that began last November with the release of ChatGPT. The fast rise of emerging technologies...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

US-China Trade: Outbound Investment Control Regime in Sensitive Technologies

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中美贸易:敏感技术的对外投资管制制度 Executive Order on Outbound Investment 有关对外投资的行政令 - A new executive order signed by President Biden in August 2023 restricts outbound investment to China in several critical cutting-edge technologies...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Autonomous Akin Update - August 2023

Our newsletter reflects the focus of Akin’s cross-practice autonomous systems and advanced mobility team on developments in the regulatory, policy, trade, intellectual property, and cybersecurity and privacy spaces....more

Polsinelli

For OT Cybersecurity, Extra Time is Running Out

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Operational technology (OT) is hardware and software that detects or causes a change, through the direct monitoring and/or control of industrial equipment, assets, processes and events. By design, OT underpins many critical...more

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President Biden Signs CHIPS and Science Act into Law

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On August 9, 2022, President Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act (H.R.4346), which seeks to bolster the US semiconductor supply chain and promote research and development of advanced technologies in the United States. The...more

Jones Day

Japan Enacts Economic Security Law

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The Japanese parliament has enacted the first comprehensive economic security legislation to enhance Japan's national security from an economic activities perspective, especially focusing on sensitive industry sectors such as...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Congress Aims To Fund Domestic Technology Businesses

Last week, just days ahead of the March 11 funding deadline, President Biden signed into law a $1.5 trillion Omnibus budget, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, to fund federal agencies for the rest of the year....more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

In the Coming ‘Metaverse’, There May Be Excitement but There Certainly Will Be Legal Issues

The concept of the “metaverse” has garnered much press coverage of late, addressing such topics as the new appetite for metaverse investment opportunities, a recent virtual land boom, or just the promise of it all, where...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Innovation Is In Again: DOE Loan Programs Office Back at the Helm

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U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) is one of the nation's premier energy infrastructure programs. Authorized in 2005 to lend nearly $70 billion to innovative clean energy projects, the LPO still has...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Voyage of Autonomous Ship in Japan; First to Set Sail in Area with Heavy Marine Traffic

In 20 years, could it be possible that 50 percent of all domestic ships on Japan’s coastal waters will be piloting themselves? Absolutely. A public interest organization in Japan, the Nippon Foundation, seeks to accomplish...more

Hogan Lovells

Nuclear and Fusion Power at the Forefront of Deep Space Exploration

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There is a new space race developing, with higher stakes and more ambitious goals than just going back to Earth orbit or the Moon.  The U.S. has developed a sizable technological lead in rockets and satellite technology,...more

Wiley Rein LLP

The White House Launches Supply Chain Initiatives on Essential Items

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On June 8, 2021, the White House released its 250-page “Building Resilient Supply Chains, Revitalizing American Manufacturing, and Fostering Broad-Based Growth” report (the Report) and an accompanying fact sheet entitled:...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Women Leaders in Digital Health See Rapid Growth and Increased Access Fueled by Pandemic

Recently, my fellow corporate partner Allison Cooper moderated a webinar, “A Conversation with the Women Building Digital Health’s Future,” during which she had the privilege of interviewing three amazing women CEOs of...more

The Volkov Law Group

Biden Administration Executive Order Mandates 100-Day Review of U.S. Supply Chains

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President Biden signed an Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains, E.O. 14017, which initiates a 10-day period to review the strength of United States supply chains for four specific sectors.  The purpose of the Executive...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Flying Car Receives EASA Certification in Europe

PAL-V, the first flying car to be allowed on the road in Europe, is now also the first flying car to complete full certification with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). ...more

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State and Local Survey of Laws Regulating Escooter Sharing Services

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The growth and use of electric scooters (escooters) for personal transportation has exploded over the last several years. Much of this growth has been driven by escooter sharing companies, which, rather than pursuing a model...more

Spirit Legal

Roadmap and milestones of German laws for autonomous vehicles

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There’s no stopping the automation of vehicle functions. OEMs’ technologies might not be progressing by leaps and bounds, but they are still evolving at a rapid pace. Not a week goes by when we don’t hear about things like...more

Polsinelli

Uncle Sam Wants to Protect Blockchain Technology

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On August 27, 2020, the head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”), Makan Delrahim, spoke at the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Innovation Economics and emphasized that one of the DOJ’s top...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

France Moves To Protect Strategic Assets Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

On April 29, 2020, the French Minister of the Economy (the Minister) announced that French foreign investment rules will be adopted with the policy goal of protecting French strategic assets in the context of the COVID-19...more

Nossaman LLP

Jacksonville’s Program to Meld Old Infrastructure and New AV Technology

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Like several state and local transportation agencies around the nation, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) is looking to roll out a fleet of autonomous vehicles. However, unlike other entities, the JTA is hoping...more

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