A recent decision by the German Hanseatic Higher Regional Court (OLG Hamburg, 5 U 104/24, 10 December 2025) in the case of Robert Kneschke v. LAION e.V. provides the first appellate-level guidance in Germany on questions surrounding copyright exceptions for text and data mining (TDM) and scientific research in the context of AI training.

Texas enacted new legislation that staked out an early position in AI regulation.

The UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (the Bill) has started making its way through Parliament. The Bill proposes amendments to the UK’s Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 (NIS Regulations). The NIS Regulations implemented Directive (EU) 2016/1148, the EU’s first NIS Directive, and already impose cybersecurity obligations on some sectors.

The UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (the Bill) has started making its way through Parliament. This blog post includes headline points on new and existing obligations for the data centre sector.

The video gaming industry is an alluring target for cyber criminals. In response, regulators in various jurisdictions have sought to bring video gaming into scope of critical infrastructure legislation or have adopted sector-specific rules.

Thailand’s legal sector, both the courts and the Lawyers Council, is beginning to develop frameworks, standards and guiding principles for AI utilization by lawyers and the judiciary that aim to maximize public benefit while ensuring transparency, accountability and the preservation of human decision-making authority.

The Regional Court of Munich (LG München I) has issued a landmark judgment in GEMA v OpenAI (Case No. 42 O 14139/24), holding that the use of copyrighted song lyrics for training generative AI models without a licence violates German copyright law.

The judgment was passed down on 4 November 2025 in Getty v Stability AI, the UK’s first case on infringement of intellectual property by generative AI.

Following our European and US tech sector M&A updates, outlook and overview of key regulatory trends, we turn our attention to China, and look at what we’re seeing in the market during 2025, and where we expect the opportunities to be as we head into 2026.

Once considered a niche segment within real estate and infrastructure, data centres have rapidly matured into a fully established asset class in their own right, driven by their role as critical digital infrastructure.