On May 13, 2025, the US Department of Commerceās Bureau of Industry and Security (āBISā) initiated a rescission of the Biden Administrationās AI Diffusion Rule, which was issued on January 15, 2025 and had been set to take effect on May 15, 2025. The AI Diffusion Rule had introduced additional expansive and complex export controls on certain advanced computing integrated circuits (āICā) and on model weights for certain advanced closed-weight artificial intelligence (āAIā) models. Our…
In less than two weeks, we have seen Syria go from one of the most heavily sanctioned countries on the planet to a country well on the road to establishing normal trade relations with the Western world. The latest flurry of developments started on May 13, 2025, when President Trump caught much of the world by surprise when he said in a speech in Riyadh: āI will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria…
In an era of intensifying geopolitical tensions, companies with operations in the U.S. must navigate an increasingly fragmented and national security-driven regulatory landscape governing cross-border transfers of many different types of data, including personal data and technical information used in R&D and patent filings. The U.S. Department of Justiceās new Data Security Program (DSP) essentially prohibits U.S. persons from making certain volumes of Americansā personal data available to entities headquartered or residing in China (including…
On January 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerceās Bureau of Industry and Security (āBISā) issued a final rule entitled “Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain: Connected Vehicles” (āFinal Ruleā) prohibiting certain transactions involving the sale or import of connected vehicles integrating specific hardware and software, or those components sold separately, with a sufficient nexus to China or Russia. The Final Rule, which follows the earlier notice of proposed rulemaking (āNPRMā)…