Topic: commerce department
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Meet Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust
The Trump administration is divided internally on how to regulate China's increasingly sophisticated open-weight AI models, with multiple agencies holding conflicting views and minimal coordination. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick plays a central role, advocating for incentives for US labs to d...
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Trump Admin Pushes States to Exempt ISPs From Net Neutrality Rules
The federal administration is withholding BEAD program funds from states that enforce net neutrality or broadband price regulations, requiring providers to be exempt from these rules across their entire service area. This policy is based on the interpretation that net neutrality constitutes rate ...
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Google, Microsoft, xAI to Let US Government Review New AI Models
Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI have agreed to let the US government review new AI models before public release through the Commerce Department's CAISI center. CAISI, which began evaluating models from OpenAI and Anthropic in 2024, has completed 40 reviews to date. The move expands federal ov...
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U.S. Senators Push Bill to Curb AI Chip Exports to China
The SAFE Chips Act of 2025 proposes to codify existing U.S. export restrictions on advanced AI chips for 30 months, preventing companies like Nvidia and AMD from selling their most powerful processors to China and other designated nations. The legislation defines restricted chips by mirroring cur...
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Anthropic Adds Security Measure to Mend Ties With Trump Administration
The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI model after the company agreed to expand security guardrails that reroute users attempting to access restricted capabilities to a less advanced model, Opus 4.8. The safeguard expansion was triggered by an Amazon pape...
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Tech Firms: Save Receipts for Potential Tariff Refunds
Technology companies should maintain detailed import expense records due to potential future semiconductor tariff refunds, as proposed tariffs create uncertainty in the recovering tech sector. The Trump administration's proposed semiconductor tariffs face growing pressure for postponement, with o...
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