On January 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS) published a Final Rule formalizing prohibitions on certain […]
On January 15, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published in the Federal Register updated export controls on advanced computing items (including advanced integrated circuits (ICs) and related equipment, software, and technology) and, for the first time, controls on artificial intelligence (AI) model weights under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). These new regulations were published as an interim final rule and took effect on January 13, 2025, although compliance is not required until May 15, 2025. BIS also published in the Federal Register a smaller companion rule on January 16, 2025, that expands licensing requirements on foundries and packaging companies seeking to export advanced computing equipment and requires compliance by January 31, 2025.
On January 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS) published an Advance Notice of Proposed […]
On September 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS) published a long-awaited rule proposing to […]
On June 20, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS) published a first-of-its-kind Final Determination against Kaspersky Lab, Inc., prohibiting the […]
Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) implementing Executive Orders (EO) 13984 and 14110 to prevent “foreign malicious cyber actors” from accessing U.S. infrastructure as a service […]
On October 25, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published updated export controls on advanced computing items and semiconductor manufacturing equipment under the Export […]
On May 13, 2022, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui of the District of Columbia took the unusual step of unsealing and issuing a Memorandum Opinion captioned “In Re: Criminal Complaint” to […]
On November 26, 2021, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (Proposed Rule) implementing Executive Order 14034 on Protecting Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries […]