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Analese Bridges

Analese Bridges is an associate in the firm’s Washington, DC office and a member of the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity and Advertising and Consumer Protection Practice Groups. She represents and advises clients on a range of cybersecurity, data privacy, and consumer protection issues, including cyber and data security incident response and preparedness, cross-border privacy law, government and internal investigations, and regulatory compliance.

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On June 17, the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models (“Working Group”) issued its final report on frontier AI policy, following public feedback on the draft version of the report released in March.  The report describes “frontier models” as the “most capable” subset of foundation models, or a class of general-purpose technologies…

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On June 12, the New York legislature passed the Responsible AI Safety & Education (“RAISE”) Act (S 6953), a frontier model public safety bill that would establish safeguard, reporting, disclosure, and other requirements for large developers of frontier AI models.  If signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul (D), the RAISE Act would…

Continue Reading New York Legislature Passes Sweeping AI Safety Legislation

On March 12, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation advanced two nominations key to the Trump Administration’s technology policy: Mark Meador as a Commissioner for the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), and Michael Kratsios as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (“OSTP”).  Both nominees previously had their nomination hearings in front of the Committee on February 25, described below.

Mark Meador

Meador started his career in the healthcare division of the FTC.  In his opening statement, he discussed the importance of the FTC in protecting consumers and free market competition. He specifically referenced the need to protect children in the digital environment and stated that the FTC should use its consumer protection powers to safeguard families.

During the nomination hearing, Meador faced questions about consumer protection enforcement mechanisms, “Big Tech” regulation, pharmacracy benefit managers (“PBMs”), antitrust concerns, and the agency’s direction under the new administration.Continue Reading Senate Commerce Committee Questions Trump Tech Nominees

State lawmakers are considering a diverse array of AI legislation, with hundreds of bills introduced in 2025.  As described further in this blog post, many of these AI legislative proposals fall into several key categories: (1) comprehensive consumer protection legislation similar to the Colorado AI Act, (2) sector-specific legislation on automated decision-making, (3) chatbot regulation, (4) generative AI transparency requirements, (5) AI data center and energy usage requirements, and (6) frontier model public safety legislation.  Although these categories represent just a subset of current AI legislative activity, they illustrate the major priorities of state legislatures and highlight new AI laws that may be on the horizon.Continue Reading State Legislatures Consider New Wave of 2025 AI Legislation