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Month: June 2024

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AI: The Next Frontier in Antitrust Law and Regulation

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Having completed “first tech monopoly trial of the internet era” against Google for its search advertising businesses, the federal government is now exploring potential antitrust issues in artificial intelligence. According to Jonathan Kant...

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Businesses Start to Sustain Damage from Currency War on Russia

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This month brought the return of HBO’s House of the Dragon, a prequel spinoff of the network’s hit series Game of Thrones, which shares some striking similarities with the currency war currently raging in the real world. The start of the sh...

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A Flurry of Audit Activity at PCAOB, FASB

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There is no indication of the typical “summer slowdown” at the Public Company Accounting and Oversight Board or the Financial Accounting Standards Board. In fact, the PCAOB and FASB have been quite active in June, approving a slew of rule c...

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New Rules Have SPACs Down, But Not Dead

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Soon after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the final version of new rules to protect investors in special purpose acquisition companies, industry analysts and news outlets all but declared the so-called “blank-check” compan...

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SEC Chimes in on Early Cybersecurity Disclosures

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Earlier this year, we offered readers three lessons from the initial wave of disclosures made under new cybersecurity rules issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2023. For example, we saw companies attempting to frame what cou...

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