AI Policy Newsletter - March 14, 2025

•  Leading AI companies submit comments on “AI Action Plan:” Across companies, the comments largely focused on easing regulations, promoting government AI adoption, and the need for infrastructure investments and private-public partnerships to support AI development. For example, both Google and OpenAI called for pre-emption of state-level AI laws and balanced export controls. Notably, OpenAI also suggested allowing AI to learn from copyrighted material. Meanwhile, Anthropic advocated for preserving the AI Safety Institute, directing NIST to develop national security evaluations for AI models, and restricting Nvidia H20 chip exports to China. The President’s science and technology advisors, in coordination with federal agencies, have until July 23 to submit an AI Action Plan to President Trump to comply with his Executive Order on “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.”

  
  

• Trump Antitrust Enforcers Send Mixed Signals on AI investments from Big Tech: On March 12, Bloomberg reported that the FTC is proceeding with a widespread antitrust probe of Microsoft, focusing on the company’s AI investments, as well as its cloud computing business and software licensing practices. Meanwhile, the DOJ released a new proposal for how Google should comply with a federal court ruling that the company acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search, dropping a previous recommendation calling for Google to divest from all AI investments and instead requiring “prior notification for future investments.”

  
  

• Jordan probes AI companies communications with Biden-Harris Administration: On March 13, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to leading AI companies – including Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI – seeking information on their communications with the Biden-Harris Administration and whether they were pressured to moderate content or censor lawful speech. In a press release, Jordan noted that the effort will “inform legislative reforms to protect Americans’ civil liberties in light of developing AI technologies.” 

  
  

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