Commerce Department

The Commerce Department is a U.S. federal agency responsible for promoting economic growth, job creation, and technological advancement. It oversees international trade, administers trade laws, and regulates industries like manufacturing and communications.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news for proposing new tariffs on metals, threatening Anthropic with criminal charges over AI models, and deleting details of a security-test deal with major tech companies.

Latest on Commerce Department

• Commerce Department proposes tariffs on more steel, aluminum, copper goods
• How the Commerce Department plans to win more foreign defense sales
• Commerce Department Threatened Anthropic With Criminal Charges Over AI Models
• The US Commerce Department deletes website details of Microsoft, Google, and xAI security-test deal
• Commerce Department budget proposal revives concerns about TraCSS
• PCB crunch, US tariffs shrink Q1 electronic component exports ↗
• CAISI operates under the Commerce Department
• Commerce Department AI initiatives operate in a strange middle ground — not regulatory authority like the FTC, not research funding like NSF, not industry convening like NIST used to manage. The mandate was standards and innovation simultaneously. Those aren't the same thing.
• requiring developers of advanced AI models to report safety and security incidents to the Commerce Department within seven days of discovery
• Commerce Department directive requiring Anthropic to restrict foreign access to its advanced AI models
• The Robust U.S. Economy Powers Through Rate Increases and Rising Bond Yields
• Commerce Department — Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary; Delay of Effective Date

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