Topic: Artificial intelligence

Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Responsible AI Safety and Education Act.

Courts are increasingly sanctioning lawyers who submit briefs containing AI generated “hallucinations,” such as fabricated cases or misquoted legal authorities, emphasizing that attorneys remain fully responsible for verifying accuracy.

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.

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.

Thailand is once again moving forward with AI regulation in an effort to establish a comprehensive framework for the use of artificial intelligence in the country. On 1 October 2025, the National Cyber Security Agency, the agency under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, published the “AI Securities Guideline” (the Guideline).

Exploring the impact of AI was a key focus at two global conferences held earlier in 2025: the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington DC, and the RSAC Conference on Cyber Security in San Francisco.

On September 23, 2025, Italy adopted Law no. 132/2025 on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The law will enter into force on 10 October 2025 and aims, inter alia, to complement the Regulation EU 2024/1689 (EU AI Act).