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Trump Administration Rescinds Voice of America Layoffs After Errors in Notices
The errors in the layoff notices could have derailed President Trump’s effort to dismantle the news organization. The administration said it would attempt the layoffs again.
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Decoded – Technology Law Insights, V 6, Issue 6, June 2025
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency’s Artificial Intelligence Security Center (NSA AISC), and the FBI have issued new AI data security guidelines. These new guidelines are aimed at assisting organizations that handle data used to train AI. The guidelines focus on data drift and potentially poisoned data, and also risks in the…
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Anthropic and Meta fair use rulings on AI model training
America’s frontier artificial intelligence (AI) labs have faced years of copyright litigation over their ingestion of books, news, and other expressive works. Yet, until this week, no US court had squarely applied the four statutory fair use factors to the merits of those claims. That changed when two US District Court for the Northern District…
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Puerto Rico Repeals Special Authorization Requirement for Nonresident Manufacturers and Distributors
In July 2022, the agency formerly known as the Puerto Rico Auxiliary Secretariat for Regulation and Accreditation of Health Facilities (SARAFS), now the Auxiliary Secretariat for the Regulation of Public Health (SARSP), announced that all nonresident wholesale distributors and manufacturers shipping prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) human and veterinary drugs, medical devices, and homeopathic and nutritional…
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Maryland sales tax multiple points of use exemptions: Is the juice worth the squeeze?
In the waning days of its 2025 session, the Maryland Legislature passed the Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act, and Governor Wes Moore signed it into law.[1] This bill expands the sales tax base to include sales of various data and information technology and cloud computing services.[2] The sales tax rate on these new categories of…
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Delegated Rehearing Panel Sends Lifeline to Mercedes-Benz
A Delegated Rehearing Panel (“DRP”) recently modified the PTAB’s construction of the claim term “workload” and remanded, giving Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (“Petitioner”) another opportunity to challenge a processor patent. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC v. Daedalus Prime LLC, IPR2023-01343, Paper 27 at 8 (PTAB Apr. 24, 2025) (“Decision”)….By: Jones Day
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Life Sciences Insurance: Navigating Risk from Lab to IPO
In our new webinar series, Risk Management for Your Life Sciences Company, we discuss the insurance and risk management milestones life science companies should prepare for as they move from early funding through clinical trials, IPO, and commercialization. In the first webinar, we focused on life sciences insurance for biotech executives. You’ll learn what coverages…
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The Brazilian Artist Who Listens to Minerals
At SculptureCenter in Queens, Luana Vitra’s show “Amulets” draws you in with its beauty. Then it drives home the tragic underpinnings of mining.
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Getty Villa Is Reopening in Los Angeles After Palisades Fire
Although the museum’s artwork was unscathed, roughly 1,400 trees on the property burned during the Palisades fire. Visible traces of the devastation are intentional.
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France Opens Competition to Expand Overcrowded Louvre
Architects are being asked to submit proposals for a new entrance for the world’s most visited museum — and to create a new exhibition space for the Mona Lisa.