The dream of directly effective supra-national legislation, applying in exactly the same way in each EU Member State: an EU Regulation should (in theory) provide the same protections in the same way at the same time to all EU...more
11/3/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Automation Systems ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
EU ,
Innovative Technology ,
Member State ,
New Legislation ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management
The first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence (AI), Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the EU AI Act), entered into force last year. Rather than taking immediate effect, the harmonized rules on AI under the Act...more
8/7/2025
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Compliance Dates ,
Enforcement ,
EU ,
Machine Learning ,
New Regulations ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Transparency
The European Commission (Commission) adopted its long-anticipated guidelines on the scope of obligations for general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) models under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act) (Guidelines) on July...more
The European Commission published its General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (Code) on July 10, 2025, after a long drafting process that was originally intended to conclude in May 2025. The development of the code was...more
Bob Dylan famously asked, “How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man?”. The power of the question is that there is no answer – and comparing the tribulations of one person’s journey through life to...more
2/7/2025
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Algorithms ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Computer-Related Inventions ,
EU ,
Innovative Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Software
It’s time to ensure your staff know how to tell weights from biases, and transformers from diffusion models. 2nd February marked the date the EU AI Act’s much-talked-about AI literacy requirements officially came into...more
If hearing the word “prohibition” brings to mind the moonshine, speakeasies, and bootleg liquor of 1920s America, you’re not alone. It conjures images from ‘Boardwalk Empire’ or ‘The Untouchables’. But today’s prohibition...more
2/3/2025
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Bias ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Innovative Technology ,
Non-Discrimination Rules ,
Personal Data ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management
In a recent webinar forming part of DLA Piper’s ‘Digital Evolution in conversation with’ series, Technology Transactions and Sourcing partner Lauren Hurcombe caught up with Gareth Stokes and Jeanne Dauzier, DLA Piper’s...more
Our webinar explored liability that can be incurred from the creation use or deployment of AI systems and raised some important questions around the current and future regulatory landscape applicable to AI and liability. We...more
9/23/2024
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Artificial Intelligence ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Innovative Technology ,
Liability ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Software ,
Technology Sector ,
UK