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U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Commerce is a department of the federal government. It includes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which was created on October 3, 1970. Since 2023, it has led U.S. government activities related to safe artificial intelligence development.

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Secretary of Commerce

Howard Lutnick

Key facts

Created: February 14, 1903, as the United States Department of Commerce and Laborsource
Renamed Department of Commerce: March 4, 1913source
NOAA created: October 3, 1970source
Employees: 48,391 (2024)source

WYDE coverage of U.S. Department of Commerce

WYDE Newsroom has published 2 articles about U.S. Department of Commerce, from Jul 2, 2026 to Jul 24, 2026. U.S. Department of Commerce is the regulator in 2 stories. The most recent is Lieu and Moran Introduce the AI Kill Switch Act to Let DHS Shut Down Rogue AI Models.

Lieu and Moran Introduce the AI Kill Switch Act to Let DHS Shut Down Rogue AI Models

The bipartisan bill would require the largest AI developers to build in throttle and shutdown controls, and let Homeland Security order a rogue model slowed or turned off, with fines up to $20 million a day.

Jul 24, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator

Claude Fable 5 Returns After a 19-Day Government-Ordered Shutdown

The Commerce Department lifted the first export controls ever applied to a deployed AI model, and Anthropic restored Fable 5 worldwide on July 1 with stronger safeguards and a proposed industry standard for judging jailbreaks.

Jul 2, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator

Reported alongside U.S. Department of Commerce

Anthropic · in 2 stories with U.S. Department of Commerce
Amazon · in 1 story with U.S. Department of Commerce
OpenAI · in 1 story with U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · in 1 story with U.S. Department of Commerce

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