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2025 Retail and Fashion Holiday Guide – A New Holiday Playbook: AI, Sustainability, and the Evolving Retail Landscape
As the holiday season ushers in its busiest months, retailers and fashion brands are confronting a marketplace reshaped by rapid technological disruption, shifting regulatory expectations, and increasingly savvy consumers. AI has taken on roles from behind-the-scenes efficiency and design tools to a front-line driver and instrument of customer engagement, marketing and payment facilitation. At the…
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Artificial Intelligence Regulation at a Crossroads: The Trump Administration’s Preemption Push
Executive Order ‘Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence’ – On December 11, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed the Executive Order (the “EO”) entitled, “Ensuring a National Policy Framework For Artificial Intelligence.”…By: Epstein Becker & Green
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Beyond Irises and Fingerprints: The Expanding Boundaries of Biometrics
You scan your face to unlock your smartphone. You use your fingerprint to unlock the password manager on your laptop. You scan your face once again as part of a double authentication process to access your company’s VPN server. Biometric security measures that a few decades ago would have only been featured in spy novels…
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White House Executive Order: State Artificial Intelligence Regulation
On December 11, 2025, the White House issued an Executive Order titled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.” This EO aims to establish a uniform and “minimally burdensome” Federal standard for AI regulation, including by directing the development of a federal legislative recommendation to preempt the current patchwork of varying state AI laws, except in…
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PFAS Liability in Food Processing: Risk Control and Transfer Methods
Insurance company sensitivity and the court of public opinion tend to run hand in hand as it relates to highly publicized exposures. PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), also known as forever chemicals, are no exception to this rule….By: Woodruff Sawyer
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U.S. and Venezuela Jam Caribbean GPS Signals to Thwart Attacks, Raising Flight Hazard
Military brinkmanship between President Trump and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has led to an increase in electronic warfare in the region.
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What Fans Did to Attend a Bad Bunny Show in Mexico City
The award-winning Puerto Rican artist, the most-streamed on the planet, is performing eight concerts in Mexico. People flocked from all over the world, including the United States.
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Aimee Ng Knows the Secrets of the Women on the Frick’s Walls
Aimee Ng, the museum’s new chief curator, broke out of the academic mold with a video series called “Cocktails With a Curator.” Here’s how she’s drawing new audiences.
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Robert Mnuchin, Stock Trader Turned Art Dealer, Dies at 92
A major player in the block-trading boom, he left Wall Street for the art world, winning a Jeff Koons sculpture at auction for $91 million in 2019.
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From A.I. to Tariffs, 14 Charts That Explain 2025
President Trump’s trade policy, inflation and climbing stock prices shaped business and the economy this year.