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China Strikes Back After Trump Imposes 10% Tariff on Goods
After a 10 percent tariff on Chinese products took effect on Tuesday, China announced retaliatory measures, including tariffs and an investigation of Google.
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Fed Official Pushes Back on Pre-emptive Policy Moves
Mary C. Daly, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said the central bank needed to assess the “scope, magnitude and timing” of President Trump’s policies.
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After Tariff Fight With Canada and Mexico, Trump’s Next Target Is Europe
The president’s threats to slap duties on goods imported from the European Union are part of a pattern of directing the harshest penalties at the United States’ closest allies.
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Trump 2.0 Week 1 Tech Policy Rundown: Pivot on AI but Data Rules Stand
It would be an understatement to say that the Trump administration has had a busy first week. Within just a few hours of the new administration coming into power, it repealed a number of Biden-era executive orders across a wide range of policy issues and contemporaneously signed a flurry of new executive orders….By: Goodwin
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Upcoming EU AI Act Obligations Mandatory Training and Prohibited Practices
The EU AI Act came into effect on 1 August 2024, and the first obligations under the Act will become applicable from 2 February 2025. Providers and deployers of AI systems must ensure that their employees and contractors using AI have an adequate degree of AI literacy, for example by implementing training….By: Latham & Watkins…
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China Unveils New Anti-Monopoly Guidelines for the Pharmaceutical Sector
China’s State Council issued new Anti-Monopoly Guidelines for the Pharmaceutical Sector (the “Guidelines”) effective January 24, 2025. The Guidelines provide a comprehensive framework for the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”), the Chinese antitrust regulator, to analyze potential anticompetitive behavior across the pharmaceuticalsector, including some types of conduct SAMR has not previously addressed….By: Jones Day
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Copyright Office Issues Report on Copyrightability of AI Content
On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released a report concerning artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law, focused on the scope of copyright protection for content generated in whole or in part by AI….By: Ballard Spahr LLP
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Banking Sector Girds for M&A Uptick in 2025
Artificial intelligence is like a “baseline” that banks will implement for back-end operations, customer-facing tools like chatbots and digital banking services, said James Stevens, a partner at Troutman Pepper Locke….By: Troutman Pepper Locke
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InterCon Construction Notifies 6,634 People of Recent Data Breach
On January 30, 2025, InterCon Construction, Inc. (“InterCon”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine after discovering that an unauthorized party gained access to parts of its computer network. In this notice, InterCon explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to access consumers’ sensitive information, which…
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Data Breach at Globe Life’s American Income Life Insurance Company Impacts as Many as 850k
On January 30, 2025, Globe Life, Inc., as the owner of American Income Life Insurance Company, filed a notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission after discovering that a previously discovered data breach affected as many as 850,000 more people than the company initially believed In this notice, Globe Life explains that the incident resulted…
