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The AI Regulation Landscape for 2026: What Legal and Compliance Leaders Need to Know

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Artificial intelligence regulation is evolving at a rapid pace. After several years of guidance documents, executive orders, pilot frameworks, and fragmented state activity, 2026 could be a year “where the rubber meets the...more

Kilpatrick

7 Key Takeaways | The Current AI Landscape in Trademarks and Copyright

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Kilpatrick’s Joe Petersen and Briggs Wright recently presented “The Current AI Landscape in Trademarks and Copyright” at the firm’s annual Advanced Trademark Law Seminar in New York. ...more

Ius Laboris

What’s Happening in Employment Law in Ireland in 2026?

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Irish employment law continued to evolve through 2025, with legislative movement across pay transparency, pensions, equality, and AI governance, alongside active adjudication before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC)...more

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Hot Topics in International Trade - February 2026 - Uncertainty Surrounding the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Tax and...

The so-called Fifth Industrial Revolution is no longer a distant concept; it is already shaping everyday life. The term artificial intelligence dates back to 1956, when computer scientist John McCarthy, along with a group of...more

MoFo Tech

AI Trends For 2026 - EU Shifts from Expansion to Consolidation

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From the AI Act to the Data Act and from the Data Governance Act to the DMA and DSA, the EU has rapidly expanded its AI and digital regulations over the past five years. In the field of AI and data regulation, 2026 will be...more

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Diritto Intelligente - January 2026

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Artificial intelligence is no longer living in a legal grey zone. The contributions in this January issue of Diritto Intelligente show a clear shift: AI has moved from experimentation to accountability. The CNIL’s January...more

Mayer Brown

Global Privacy Watchlist

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The global data privacy and online safety landscape is undergoing a period of unprecedented regulatory transformation. Across every major economic region, lawmakers and regulators are moving aggressively to address the...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

When AI Agents Misbehave: Governance and Security for Autonomous AI

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AI agents are no longer a research concept. They book travel, execute trades, draft documents, approve purchases, and interact with customers—often with minimal human oversight....more

Gardner Law

Privacy and AI Heatmap for 2026: What Device & Drug Makers Should Watch in 2026

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Privacy and artificial intelligence (AI) regulation and enforcement have been heating up in the U.S. and around the world. What should device and drug makers expect in 2026?...more

Mayer Brown

EU Omnibus: Key Proposed Changes for Global Businesses

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The European Commission’s EU Omnibus Proposal package represents an attempt to streamline Europe’s digital regulatory framework. The package comprises two legislative proposals: the “Digital Omnibus”, which proposes targeted...more

A&O Shearman

Navigating Evolving Guardrails For Internal Investigations

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Those involved with internal investigations will continue to contend with a set of increasingly defined and evolving set of constraints in 2026: rules on data access and cross border transfers, persistent jurisdictional...more

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German Regulators Expand Focus To Crypto, AI Governance And Complex Tax Fraud Schemes

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Germany started 2025 with rising enforcement risk as authorities intensified their efforts to combat financial crime. The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) issued a landmark penalty of EUR25 million for...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

From Privacy Impact Assessments to Algorithmic Accountability: 2026’s Top Privacy & AI Compliance Priorities

While it’s impossible to agree on whether 2026 will be the Year of Youth Privacy, the Year of the Data Broker, or (another) Year of the Cookie, one thing we can agree on is that it promises not to be boring! Wait…did we...more

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AI Office Publishes Its First Code of Practice on AI‑Generated Content Transparency

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The EU AI office has published his first draft Code of practice on transparency of AI generated content (the “Code”) providing voluntary guidelines for marking and labelling AI output (audio, image, video or text) ensuring...more

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AI Legal Watch: January 2026

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Multiple significant state AI laws became effective January 1, 2026. California's Transparency in Frontier AI Act (SB 53), signed September 29, 2025, requires developers of large AI models trained using greater than 10²⁶...more

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South Korea’s AI Basic Act: Overview and Key Takeaways

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South Korea’s Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of Trust (AI Basic Act) took effect on January 22, 2026, joining the European Union AI Act as a comprehensive AI regulatory regime....more

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Data Privacy Day 2026: What Changed on Jan. 1 — And What to Watch Next

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Data Privacy Day offers a natural checkpoint to take stock of a fast‑moving legal landscape. As of January 1, 2026, several significant U.S. state privacy laws and regulatory updates are now live, with additional U.S. and...more

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[Podcast] The Data Day: World Data Protection Day & Regulatory Insights for 2026

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On this special edition of The Data Day podcast, Ropes & Gray partner Rohan Massey—leader of the firm’s data, privacy & cybersecurity practice and managing partner of the London office—is joined by counsel Edward Machin and...more

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The $1.5 Billion Reckoning: AI Copyright and the 2026 Regulatory Minefield

In the silent digital halls of early 2026, the era of “ask for forgiveness later” has finally hit a $1.5 billion brick wall. As legal frameworks in Brussels and New Delhi solidify, the wild west of AI training data is being...more

White & Case LLP

AI Watch: Global regulatory tracker - Italy (UPDATED)

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Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (the "AI Regulations") - On October 10, 2025, Italy adopted Law no. 132/2025 (the "National AI Law"). Italy is therefore the first EU Member State to adopt a comprehensive national...more

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New frontiers: How AI is transforming the life sciences industry - The State Of The Market

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AI is reshaping the life sciences industry in ways that are no longer hypothetical. The question is no longer whether to adopt AI, but how, and where, it can drive the most value. Adoption, however, is advancing at different...more

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New frontiers: How AI is transforming the life sciences industry - Patient, Commercial And Regulatory Concerns

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While the implementation of AI is growing apace, obstacles to deeper adoption still remain. These pressure points are consistent across subsectors: protecting sensitive data; integrating tools with legacy systems; clarifying...more

Hogan Lovells

JPM 2026: How to expand internationally while ensuring regulatory compliance - Rules for AI and trade in focus for the US, China,...

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As life sciences companies expand internationally, regulatory readiness must evolve into a strategic capability that supports global business planning and innovation....more

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EU and Luxembourg Update on the European Harmonised Rules on Artificial Intelligence—Recent Developments

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The European Union (EU) is ushering in a new era of artificial intelligence (AI) regulation with the introduction of the AI act dated 13 June 2024 (AI Act), a comprehensive framework designed to govern the development,...more

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When AI Becomes Accomplice: Shanghai Court Holds Developers Criminally Liable for Chatbot Content

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When developers manipulate artificial intelligence systems to bypass ethical safeguards and generate explicit content for profit, can they be held criminally responsible for what the machine produces? A Chinese court has...more

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