The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has developed a new artificial intelligence tool, the “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool,” with an ambitious goal: to eliminate half of Washington’s federal regulatory mandates. An internal proposal suggests this could happen by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The AI tool is designed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations to ...
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Negative Option Rule (the “Click-to-Cancel”), which was designed to significantly impact businesses using online subscriptions, was vacated by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, just a week before it was due to take effect.
The rule targeted negative option programs where a seller can interpret a consumer’s silence or failure to act ...
The White House recently published “America’s AI Action Plan,” an extensive 90-point policy and strategy action plan dedicated to “winning the AI race,” framed as a national security imperative. The plan follows the recent failure to pass a 10-year moratorium on state AI legislation as part of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” and signals the Trump administration’s direction for federal AI ...
The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive review of Harvard University’s federally funded research programs and is threatening to diminish the school’s lucrative portfolio of patents. President Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, accused Harvard of breaching its legal and contractual requirements related to federally funded research and patents.
The Commerce Secretary emphasized Harvard’s “critical responsibility” to ensure that intellectual property ...
Illinois has recently enacted the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act, which is now in effect. The law prescribes limits on the role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may take in mental healthcare, as a measure to protect patients. This is the first law in the United States to regulate AI in clinical settings specifically.
The Act was passed against ...
Amendment 13 to Israel’s Privacy Protection Law, the most significant Amendment to the law in decades, is set to take effect on August 14.
The amendment expands key definitions, such as “personal information” and “data processing,” aligning more closely with similar provisions in the GDPR and expanding the general application of the law. The Amendment limits database registration requirements while ...
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