Morning Docket: 09.16.26
Morgan & Morgan plans to spend $1 billion to build an internal AI system and sell the platform to other law firms, according to the ABA Journal. The item appeared in Above the Law's Morning Docket for…
Morgan & Morgan plans to spend $1 billion to build an internal AI system and sell the platform to other law firms, according to the ABA Journal. The item appeared in Above the Law's Morning Docket for…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the office's 92nd lawsuit against the Trump administration on Nov. 20, 2025, seeking to block a rule change that would make it harder for immigrants to qual…
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA) urged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a July 14, 2026 House Financial Services Committee hearing to use Treasury's resources to investigate the existential risks o…
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson warned on Tuesday that AI companies seeking both new regulations and antitrust exemptions should trigger immediate suspicion, saying at Georgetown Uni…
House Democratic leaders are scheduled to speak with reporters Tuesday morning as Democrats press the Trump administration for more regulations on artificial intelligence. House Minority Leader Hakeem…
The Trump administration's EPA finalized the repeal of Biden-era power plant emissions standards on Monday, a move EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called "the largest power sector deregulatory action eve…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on the Trump administration to brief the Senate on its AI framework for testing the latest models, as lawmakers returned to Washington on Monday with the Ho…
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) called on the Trump administration Monday to provide a classified briefing to all senators on the dangers posed by AI, after a researcher for Anthropic wa…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States "can't pause" artificial intelligence development because "the Chinese won't pause," speaking at a Breitbart News policy discussion on Septem…
Anthropic and OpenAI have advocated for slowing AI development, putting the two frontier-model labs at odds with the tech industry, Wall Street, and the Trump administration, according to Bloomberg. A…
Moonshot AI released the weights for its Kimi K3 model on July 27, 2026, after announcing the model on July 16; independent measures place Kimi K3 within one generation of U.S. frontier models. The Tr…
The Trump administration directed the US Commerce Department in June 2026 to impose export controls and access restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models on cybersecurity grounds, while O…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned with a warning that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade," prompting a largely negative and suspicious…
South Korea's Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Kim Jung-kwan confirmed a $200 billion strategic investment commitment to the United States, capped at $20 billion per year, as the smaller piece o…
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, led by CEO John Bozzella, is pressuring U.S. lawmakers to enact a permanent ban on Chinese vehicles and connected hardware and software before the 119th Congres…
Rural health providers and health AI experts are disputing the Trump administration's claim that artificial intelligence can offset nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the coming decade, with Lor…
The United States still leads China in the AI race, with American companies holding better models, more compute, and far more revenue, according to an analysis by Noah Smith. The piece warns that a la…
A bipartisan coalition of organizations urged President Trump to publicly release his administration's framework for government AI testing, citing transparency concerns over the closed-door policy. Th…
The Trump administration on Tuesday accused Chinese AI firms, including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, of systematically stealing US-developed AI technology through industrial-scale knowledge distillation,…
A Washington Examiner opinion piece argues that panic over artificial intelligence mirrors past opposition to nuclear power and threatens U.S. economic growth and technological leadership, citing tech…