Artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and Outsourcing

Nick Jens, Marcus Evans, James Russell — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:46:48 Z

Our outsourcing and AI lawyers consider whether various provisions in outsourcing contract are fit for purpose for an outsourcing that involves the use of AI.

How AI use affects legal privilege in internal investigations

Katie Stephen, Hannah Meakin, Rebecca Dulieu — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:23:37 Z

This article considers key risks, confidentiality and compliance considerations, and practical safeguards for professional services and financial firms.

Rethinking governance for agentic AI

Susana Medeiros, Steven B. Roosa, Wenda Tang — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:51:00 Z

Many approaches to agentic AI governance rely on reactive oversight, applying controls after systems are deployed rather than embedding them into system design.

Tech in healthcare: Key trends for 2026

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:08:47 Z

Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers authored and edited key chapters in Digital Health 2026, covering artificial intelligence, the bio industrial technology stack and emerging technologies.

Using AI in healthcare: Helping to Stay HIPAA compliant

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:29:00 Z

Healthcare providers are rapidly adopting AI for clinical and operational uses, often involving protected health information that is governed by HIPAA’s Privacy Rule.

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, 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.

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.

AI copyright: Six key rulings

Stephanie Schmidt, Marc B. Collier, 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

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.

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

Ellen Blanchard, Marc B. Collier, Susana Medeiros, Ethan Glenn, Susan Linda Ross — 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

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

Marc B. Collier, Ethan Glenn, Isabela Pena-Gonzalez, Charlotte Swart — 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

UK: Latest trends in technology disputes

Jonathan Ball, Verity Quartermain — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:41:47 Z

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP’s Cyber and Technology team recently hosted a roundtable dinner in London, bringing together technology lawyers and a diverse group of clients from leading financial institutions and tech-driven businesses.

An analysis of Dubai’s new Human-Machine Collaboration Classification System

Shabnam Karim, Marcus Evans, Shiv Daddar, Simon Lamb, Rosie Nance — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 10:30:10 Z

On 16 July 2025, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Defence, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dubai Future Foundation (DFF), approved the launch of a ‘Human-Machine Collaboration Icons’ initiative, a world-first classification system that requires certain entities to disclose the extent of AI involvement in the creation of research, publications and content.

White House unveils AI Action Plan in artificial intelligence

Chuck Hollis, Emmanuelle Yeremou-Ngah, Susan Linda Ross, Stephanie Schmidt — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:59:00 Z

On July 23, 2025, the White House released a sweeping new policy framework titled “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan” (the “Plan”), describing the federal government’s approach to artificial intelligence (“AI”).

AI regulation: Global Guide

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:52:18 Z

As organisations continue with their roll-out of AI, the global regulatory landscape is becoming increasingly complex. AI-specific laws like the EU AI Act already applicable and new AI-specific laws are proposed, adding to the range of existing laws and regulations applicable to AI.

California’s anti-employment discrimination regulations now include AI, expand retention requirements

Jesika Silva Blanco, Susan Linda Ross, Susana Medeiros — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:16:00 Z

The California Civil Rights Council, which is part of the Civil Rights Department, published revised regulations to protect against employment discrimination as a result of an employer’s use of artificial intelligence.

Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act

Susan Linda Ross, Chuck Hollis, Amelia X. Zhang — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:38:26 Z

The Texas Governor signed the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (HB 149), which will go into effect on January 1, 2026.

Workday AI lawsuit receives the greenlight to proceed as a collective action

Jesika Silva Blanco — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:01:00 Z

Workday Inc. (Workday) must face a nationwide collective action that could implicate “hundreds of millions of people” who were rejected for employment through Workday.

Generative AI: Updated global guide to key IP considerations

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:04:40 Z

Generative AI systems are trained using vast amounts of data, often taken from sources in the public domain that may be protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights. So could training a generative AI system using publicly accessible copyright work constitute an infringement? And could the output infringe?

AI literacy: The Commission’s pointers on building your programme

Marcus Evans, Rosie Nance — Wed, 28 May 2025 10:15:18 Z

The EU AI Act’s AI literacy obligation applied from 2 February 2025. This applies to anyone doing anything with AI where there is some connection to the EU – to providers and deployers of any AI systems.

Substantiate AI detection claims

Susan Linda Ross, Chuck Hollis — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:40:51 Z

On April 28, 2025, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made it clear that any claims about the ability of a tool to detect whether artificial intelligence (AI) generated content need to be substantiated, just like other advertising claims.

Recent developments on AI in federal government institutions

Imran Ahmad, Domenic Presta — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:28:27 Z

Canada’s proposed artificial intelligence (AI) legislation, the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act, died on the Order Paper earlier this year when Parliament was prorogued. While the future of AI legislation in Canada remains unclear, the federal government remains committed to strengthening Canada’s global position and approach to AI as a leader in the field.

IP monitor: OECD AI paper: IP issues in AI trained on scraped data

Brian Chau, Daniel Daniele — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:21:58 Z

Developing high-performance generative AI systems and other AI systems based on machine learning often requires access to vast amounts of data for training (AI training data) and improving their accuracy and performance, and data scraping is an approach that is taken to generate large enough data sets.