Topic: Regulation

Türkiye’s Ministry of Industry and Technology has published an AI Action Plan, establishing a legal-ethical framework, reflecting the EU's risk-based approach.

Recent scrutiny of automated government systems in Australia highlights the need to balance efficiency with lawful, transparent and fair decision-making.

The launch of WAICO highlights competing AI governance models that could affect supply chains, procurement, and data centre investment decisions.

The Australian government is monitoring AI-related competition issues, including dark patterns, agentic AI liability and scrutiny of partnerships.

In this post, we cover Winters v. OpenAI, Inc. et al., a San Francisco Superior Court lawsuit filed by Scott Winters, a 55-year-old Florida pastor who claims that responses from ChatGPT-4o contributed to a near-fatal pulmonary embolism.

On 16 June 2026, the UK government announced the new “National Quantum Standards Network”, a world-first national framework for quantum standards to coordinate standards for quantum technologies.

Norton Rose Fulbright has been closely monitoring a growing body of decisions released in 2026, that address whether GenAI prompts and outputs are entitled to privilege protections.

On June 1, 2026, the Florida Office of the Attorney General, State of Florida and the Florida Department of Legal Affairs, sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of ignoring safety warnings and releasing ChatGPT while knowing it was harmful to users.

The EU Commission recently published draft guidelines for the high-risk AI provisions under the EU AI Act. These provide examples of use cases that fall under the AI system’s stringent rules for high-risk AI systems, and those that do not.

A Pennsylvania state board has filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against the company behind Character.AI, alleging that an artificial intelligence chatbot's claims of psychiatric credentials and a Pennsylvania medical license constitute the unlicensed practice of medicine.