Archive: November 2025

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.