John Dermody is the Deputy Chief Counsel for the CHIPS Program Office at the Department of Commerce, which is responsible for providing $39 billion in incentives to support the US semiconductor industry. Before joining Commerce, John was a Counsel at O’Melveny & Myers, where he liti
In the last few years, the quest to build so-called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), an undefined system which seemingly can do any task under any circumstance, has captured the public's imagination.
Generally, ideas have been thought of as free, whereas original expression is the stuff of copyright. But at least in certain circumstances under California law, ideas aren’t free.
