Ai and detection of competition antitrust law violations

AI in litigation series: Complaint accuses OpenAI of practicing law without a license

Marc B. Collier, Ethan Glenn, Susan Linda Ross — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:26:00 Z

In this post, we cover a new federal lawsuit filed against OpenAI on March 4, 2026 that raises a novel dispute.

AI’s impact on modern data center procurement and construction

Sameer A. Ghaznavi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:15:00 Z

In this episode of Uptime Now, we examine how AI-driven procurement and supply-chain coordination are helping data center developers.

US national AI policy framework: White House sets priorities for Congress

Marc B. Collier, Annmarie Giblin, Ethan Glenn, Susan Linda Ross — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:33:02 Z

The White House’s National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence makes recommendations for legislative actions in seven key categories.

Financing data centers in Türkiye: Legal and financial landscape

Utku Ünver, Ezgi Alkım — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:21:21 Z

With growing demand and government support for data center development in Türkiye, we explore the key legal and financial considerations.

Data centres and AI infrastructure: Expectations for Australian developers

Ka-Chi Cheung, Peter Mulligan, Lisa Fitzgerald, Michael Muratore — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:08:52 Z

The Australian Government will prioritise proposals based on national interest, the energy transition, water usage, workforce development, and research and innovation.

AI in litigation series: Dark patterns and artificial intelligence

Helen Christakos, Marc B. Collier, Ethan Glenn, Kayla Ahmed — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:21:00 Z

As companies increasingly integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their daily operations, novel litigation based on those integrations will follow.

AI governance in healthcare: Key issues for health system boards

Susan Feigin Harris, Jeff Wurzburg, Kathleen Rubinstein — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:44:00 Z

Artificial intelligence has quickly moved from pilot programs to essential roles in US hospitals, transforming care delivery and management.

Accessibility in e-commerce services: Compliance with European Accessibility Act

Laura Helloco, Geoffroy Coulouvrat, Nadège Martin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:38:15 Z

With the European Accessibility Act transposed into French law, we examine accessibility rules for e commerce websites and apps, non-compliance sanctions and stakeholder considerations.

AI copyright: Six key rulings

Stephanie Schmidt, Marc B. Collier, Annmarie Giblin, Logan Woodward, Ethan Glenn — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:15:00 Z

Artificial intelligence continues to expand its capabilities and challenge existing legal principles, with copyright law at the forefront.

New York and AI: Notes for developers, deployers and lawyers

Annmarie Giblin, Susan Linda Ross — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:36:00 Z

On December 22, 2025, the City Bar of New York’s Ethics Committee issued Formal Opinion 2025-6: “Ethical Issues Affecting Use of Al to Record, Transcribe, and Summarize Conversations with Clients.”

Class action questions whether using AI to “score” job applicants violates the FCRA and similar California law

Marc B. Collier, Jesika Silva Blanco, Ethan Glenn, Susan Linda Ross — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:48:00 Z

As companies increasingly integrate and use artificial intelligence in their daily operations, novel litigation based on those integrations and uses will arise as well.

AI, algorithms and automation in the workplace: New South Wales’ Digital Work Systems Bill

Katherine Morris, Nicki Milionis — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:19:45 Z

The Parliament of New South Wales has passed a Bill introducing Australia’s first reforms of their kind to the Work Health and Safety framework. This article explores the key reforms and what they mean for organisations using digital tools to allocate, monitor or assess work.

Regulating AI in Australian financial services: Practical guidance for compliance

Lisa Fitzgerald, Peter Mulligan, Ka-Chi Cheung, Bernard O'Shea — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:02:18 Z

This article examines how Australian financial regulators approach artificial intelligence, summarising key guidance from ASIC, APRA, OAIC and AUSTRAC and setting out practical compliance considerations for firms, boards and executives.

Privilege challenges in the era of generative AI

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:33:00 Z

Generative AI is quickly becoming part of everyday legal work, but recent court decisions show it can also create real risks for attorney client privilege.

Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Guidance on AI Scribes

Manpreet Singh, Domenic Presta, Chloe Loblaw — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:44:58 Z

New guidance sets strict privacy and accountability expectations for AI scribes, helping healthcare organizations safeguard sensitive patient data.

AI agents: Privacy risks and practical mitigations

Marcus Evans, Steven B. Roosa, Rosie Nance — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:01:16 Z

A webinar unpacking the privacy and cybersecurity guardrails organizations need as AI agents become embedded in everyday systems.

Securing AI agents in the new era of automation

Marcus Evans, Steven B. Roosa, Rosie Nance — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:21:03 Z

This webinar explores practical privacy and security measures organisations need as AI agents become integrated into business systems and workflows.

A new year brings new AI obligations

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:14:00 Z

Courts are beginning to define how companies should consider retaining outputs generated by GenAI tools.

The RAISE Act: Advancing AI Safety and Education in New York

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:52:00 Z

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

AI-generated case law: Errors that carry consequences

Thomas J. Hall, Judith A. Archer — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:41:00 Z

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.

Machine-Readable opt-outs and AI training: Hamburg Court clarifies copyright exceptions

Ronak Kalhor-Witzel — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:11:00 Z

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.

Preparing for The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act

Marc B. Collier, Ethan Glenn, Isabela Pena-Gonzalez, Charlotte Swart — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:05:00 Z

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

NIS Regulations Keeling Schedule for the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: How is the UK’s cybersecurity law changing?

Marcus Evans, Rosie Nance — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:01:40 Z

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.

UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: Headlines for the data centre sector

Marcus Evans, Rosie Nance — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:45:59 Z

Video gaming: Navigating cybersecurity legal and technological challenges

Jasper Geerdes, Jurriaan Jansen — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:07:17 Z

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.

AI in the Legal Sector in Thailand

Teerin Vanikieti, Thanthiti Seneewong Na Ayudthaya — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:22:25 Z

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.

Germany delivers landmark copyright ruling against OpenAI: What it means for AI and IP

Ronak Kalhor-Witzel — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:00:00 Z

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.

Getty v Stability AI: First AI judgment made but key questions remain unanswered

Jonathan Ball, Polina Maloshchinskaia — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:14:13 Z

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.

Tech M&A outlook part 3 - China: Investment and regulatory trends

Sean Murphy — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:23:38 Z

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.

Financing data centres: European overview

Joris Ravelli, Daniel Metcalfe, Christian Lambie — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:16:08 Z

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.

Tech M&A outlook Part 2 - US: Investment and regulatory trends

Sean Murphy — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:02:01 Z

Following our European tech sector M&A update, outlook and overview of key regulatory trends, in the next video we discuss the United States (US) tech M&A market, and share what we’re seeing, highlighting trends since the new US Administration at the beginning of the year.

Tech M&A outlook Part 1 - Europe: Investment and regulatory trends

Sean Murphy — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:24:57 Z

There were high hopes heading into 2025 that we would see a rebound in M&A around the world, however geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty meant the market was more subdued than many had been hoping for.

Thailand’s New AI Guideline

Teerin Vanikieti, Thanthiti Seneewong Na Ayudthaya — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:48:21 Z

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).

Global AI, privacy and cyber insights

Lisa Fitzgerald, Ka-Chi Cheung, Peter Mulligan, Bernard O'Shea, Rohan Sridhar — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:09:45 Z

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.

Italy enacts Law No. 132/2025 on Artificial Intelligence

Salvatore Iannitti, Francesco Gelmetti — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:04:53 Z

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).

California’s Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act

Chuck Hollis, Susan Linda Ross, Herwin Jorsling — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:56:00 Z

California has enacted the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (Cal. SB 53).

Relief from relief: making handling relief events easier and more collaborative

Rohan Isaacs — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:04:43 Z

Relief events clauses are included as standard provisions of most technology implementation, outsourcing and services contracts. Under such provisions, the supplier is relieved of its obligations if or to the extent that its failure to comply with contractual requirements is caused by the customer.

Liability 101: Liability clauses in technology and outsourcing contracts

Nick Jens, Kerri Gevers, James Russell — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:45:04 Z

Liability is often a contentious topic (and typically the last provision to be agreed) in a technology or outsourcing contract negotiation.

Banks outsourcing to the cloud: The economic drivers and regulatory implications

James Russell, Kerri Gevers, Kelsey Oosthuizen, Rosie Nance — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:27:45 Z

The financial services sector is becoming increasingly reliant on cloud service providers (CSPs) to fulfil its growing data processing and storage needs. Financial services providers in the United States have reportedly had the highest levels of adoption, operating 54 percent of their workloads in the cloud; and according to the European Central Bank, banks spent 13.5 percent more on cloud outsourcing in 2024 than in 2023.

German Federal Court of Justice decision in Sony v. Datel: Its implications for gaming, cheat tools and EU software copyright law

Ronak Kalhor-Witzel — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:47:01 Z

Cheat software has long been a thorn in the side of game publishers. But does it also constitute a copyright infringement? In a landmark decision, issued on July 31, 2025, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that cheat tools that merely manipulate in-game variables in RAM - without altering the program code - do not violate software copyright under EU law.

Another contract remediation exercise for EU financial entities?

Kerri Gevers — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:04:30 Z

The European Banking Authority (EBA) is currently consulting on its draft guidelines on the sound management of third party risk (Draft Guidelines), which are intended to replace the 2019 guidelines on outsourcing arrangements (2019 Guidelines).

Thailand’s draft AI law: A new era for governance and innovation

Teerin Vanikieti, Tassanai Kiratisountorn, Patcharapol Sudsakorn — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:07:39 Z

Thailand is advancing its efforts to establish a national, comprehensive framework for artificial intelligence, with new draft legislation currently under consideration.

Bartz v. Anthropic: Settlement reached after landmark summary judgment and class certification

Stephanie Schmidt — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:31:00 Z

In Bartz v. Anthropic, 3:24-cv-05417, filed in August 2024 by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, the plaintiffs alleged that Anthropic relied on pirated e-books—downloaded from “shadow libraries” such as LibGen—to train its Claude large language models.

Pseudonymised data could fall outside data protection law: introducing the “means reasonably likely” assessment

Marcus Evans, Rosie Nance — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:31:58 Z

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has delivered its judgment on case C 413/23 P European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) v Single Resolution Board (SRB). The CJEU has confirmed that pseudonymised data will not be personal data in all cases. This will be a welcome confirmation for innovative uses of data, including AI models.

Can you access your outsourced data?

Kerri Gevers — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:03:29 Z

Financial regulators globally emphasise the importance of financial entities being operationally resilient, which includes the ability to manage and recover from disruptions caused by their service providers. The topic receives significant attention in the financial services sector because the sector is regulated, with the aim of promoting financial system stability.

Artificial Intelligence at work: Legal issues in French labour law

Laure Joncour — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:06:58 Z

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly present in our professional lives—whether in recruitment, human resources management, task automation or decision-making. Employees use AI to enhance their efficiency or to assist with repetitive tasks, often without informing their managers.

Explain yourself: The legal requirements governing explainability

Marcus Evans, Rosie Nance, Lily Hands, Lisa Fitzgerald — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:31:57 Z

Agentic AI brings the promise of AI making a range of decisions autonomously. It has been proposed as the way forward for some of the most impactful decisions in our lives: interacting with customers and actioning requests, triaging requests for medical appointments, and hiring candidates — to name a few.

Integrating artificial intelligence in M&A processes: A new strategic era – Part 1: Leveraging AI and its advantages

Jérémie Wyatt, Imran Ahmad, Domenic Presta — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:26:29 Z

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming established practices in multiple areas across all industries, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are not immune to this transformation. From the exploratory phase to due diligence, including contract drafting and negotiations, AI enables M&A teams to leverage powerful tools for analysis, automation, and prediction, thus improving efficiency, accuracy, and objectivity.

Technology contracts in the ADGM: New requirements under the Cyber Risk Management Framework

Shabnam Karim, Kerri Gevers — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:27:56 Z

Regulated financial services sector firms in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) have six months to comply with the new Cyber Risk Management Framework announced by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) on 29 July 2025.

Cyber risk management in the ADGM: an analysis of the new regulatory framework

Shabnam Karim, Kerri Gevers, Simon Lamb — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:09:48 Z

On 29 July 2025, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) announced the implementation of a new Cyber Risk Management Framework that will apply to financial sector firms under its supervision.