Compliance Stuff

On December 11, 2025, President Trump  signed an executive order   purporting to limit the ability of states to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) . The order’s stated purpose is to ensure that American AI companies are “free to innovate without cumbersome regulation” and to “remove barriers to American AI leadership.” The order cites the proliferation of AI legislative proposals in state legislatures as undermining that goal (although it bears note that few if any of these proposals have or are likely to become law). The order specifically cites as problematic a recently enacted California state law, which it claims requires “complex and burdensome disclosure… based on the purely speculative suspicion that AI might ‘pose significant catastrophic risk.’” It further references Colorado state law regarding algorithmic discrimination, claiming that that law “may even force AI models to embed DEI in their programming.” The order goes on to state that the administrat...

Google has agreed to spend $500 million over the next decade to overhaul its compliance operations, including a new board-level committee dedicated to regulatory compliance and multiple new compliance teams embedded across the 184,000-person enterprise. Google  made that sweeping promise to settle a lawsuit from unhappy shareholders , who had sued the company for its numerous alleged antitrust violations over the years. The two sides reached a proposed settlement on Friday, although the federal district court judge presiding over the case still needs to give the deal her final blessing.  The lawsuit was filed by a Michigan pension fund in 2021, which basically said that because Google and its board had exercised poor oversight of antitrust issues, the company lurched into widespread anti-competitive behaviors and ensuing regulatory probes, which have ended up costing Google a fortune.  Those investors have a point; Google  has  endured one migraine after anothe...

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