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The bans, according to administration officials, are designed to discourage any more retaliation from Canada and other countries on the receiving end of Trump's own economic policy.

Barry Appleton, co-director for the Center of International Law at NYU, excuse me, New York Law School, says it's just a way to try to mess with Canada, and that's what we're looking at.

The United States has decided they want to ramp up a little more pressure.

He also says bans are really hard to get off.

All right, so full candor, so everyone who's watching knows my background.

I worked for the New York Attorney General's Office while at New York Law School, so I prosecuted cases.

It was for the Antitrust Department.

After that, I was a criminal defense attorney.

His major cases include the recent constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act and the decisions invalidating Sarbanes-Oxley's accounting board, preventing the Justice Department from obtaining monetary relief against the tobacco industry under RICO, overturning the federal government's plan to statistically adjust the census, limiting the Justice Department's ability to create majority minority districts, and upholding Proposition 209's ban on racial preferences in California.

Professor Weiss is a distinguished adjunct professor and senior fellow at New York Law School, where he directs the New York Elections, Census, and Redistricting Institute, and teaches classes on redistricting, election law, and the census.

He is now working on his sixth redistricting cycle.

In past years, he served as a redistricting counsel to New York State legislative leaders and as counsel to three New York City districting commissions and to numerous counties and localities across New York and the nation.

But in the absence of federal intervention, states like California and Virginia are taking matters into their own hands.

Michael Pastor, New York Law School's Dean for Technology Law Programs, joins us this week to break down this debate and how it could shape future AI policy.

But first, here are the biggest state IT stories of the week.

After a months-long investigation,

California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered state officials to accelerate the rollout of a new system for independently auditing the safety of artificial intelligence models, while exploring additional requirements for companies developing the most advanced AI systems.

Virginia, Illinois, and dozens of other states have established AI task forces to explore its impact on workforce, privacy, and cybersecurity.

Michael Pastor, New York Law School's Dean of Technology Law Programs, said he sees both sides of the debate.

While he understands the urgency to pass legislation before the technology surpasses government's ability to regulate it, Pastor said he also worries that a patchwork of state laws may open the door to more problems.

Today, it is a formal signed order, and it covers almost everything the U.S. government buys for civilian use.

Canadian manufacturers should take it seriously, said Appleton, co-director of the Center for International Law at New York Law School and a fellow at the University of Waterloo's Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Still, Appleton pointed out, the ban isn't actually in effect yet.

The order tells officials to find every step the law allows.

So they're not, that's not gonna get them anything.

The last thing would be they actually come back and fix the map challenge, because their, uh, their law- the law school of New York estimated a million, and me and a couple other broadband guys say it's two million, but there's a whole lot of places that the map challenge screwed out a bid-

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... because they were purposefully trying to reduce the bid universe.

And th- you know, and, and, and so i- you know, it's just a, they're completely gaming the system.

Now, they've only ever punished, for all I can remember, one ISP.

Some stupid company in New York claimed, like, half of the state had fiber one time.

Oh, no, that was, uh-