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Revolutionizing EU Design Protection: Key Changes Under the New Designs and Models Regulation

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May 1, 2025, marked the entry into force of most provisions of Phase I of the new Regulation (EU) 2024/2822, which forms part of the "Designs and Models Package" adopted within the European Union. This text, in addition to...more

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Becoming the World’s Leading AI Continent: The Commission’s “AI Continent Action Plan”

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The European Commission has shortly published its “AI Continent Action Plan” and, doing so, set itself no less a task than winning the global race for AI leadership and making Europe the leading AI continent. This shall be...more

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For Your AIs Only: Agentic AI Steps Out of the Shadows

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Agentic AI can independently act and adapt to changing environments without relying on existing data patterns like GenAI. Agentic AI promises more goal-oriented autonomous systems, ideal for matters involving complex...more

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EU Invests €200 Billion Towards Becoming a Global Leader in AI

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While positioning itself as a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) regulation with the EU AI Act, the EU has not historically been a global leader in innovative AI achievements. American and Chinese companies have...more

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EU AI Act – Spotlight on Emotional Recognition Systems in the Workplace

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Emotion recognition artificial intelligence (Emotion AI) refers to AI which uses various biometric and other data sets such as facial expressions, keystrokes, tone of voice and behavioural mannerisms to identify, infer and...more

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Navigating the Future of Cloud Transformation

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In a recent webinar forming part of DLA Piper’s ‘Digital Evolution in conversation with’ series, Rami Zayat caught up with Jan Geert Meents, Joanna Sykes-Saavedra and Sophie Levett to discuss the future of cloud...more

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The Digital Networks Act: A New Era for EU Telecoms Regulation

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With the upcoming Digital Networks Act, the European Union will transform the regulatory landscape for electronic communications networks (ECN) and electronic communications services (ECS). This ambitious legislation aims to...more

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AI Action Paris Summit 2025: Key Takeaways on Global AI Governance

The AI Action Summit brought together a wide-ranging assembly of influential figures to discuss the future of artificial intelligence (AI) governance, risk mitigation and international cooperation. The attendees included...more

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Here Comes Compliance with the EU AI Act

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Artificial intelligence reached another milestone at the start of February, this one particularly relevant for corporate compliance officers: on February 2, 2025, the first five articles of the EU AI Act went into effect....more

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The Rise of Outbound Investment Screening: The U.S. and EU Initiate Measures

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On January 15, 2025, the European Commission ("EC") published a Recommendation ("EU Recommendation") urging European Union Member States to start reviewing outbound investments outside of the EU in three strategic sectors:...more

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EU AI Act: Ban on Certain AI Practices and Requirements for AI Literacy Come Into Effect

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The first requirements under the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act come into effect on February 2, 2025, banning the use of AI systems that involve prohibited AI practices and requiring providers and deployers of AI systems...more

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How Many Neurons Must a System Compute Before You Can Call It AI? Unpicking the Guidelines on the AI Act’s Definition of...

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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

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EU AI Act’s Ban on Prohibited Practices Takes Effect

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The first compliance deadline set out in the European Union (EU)’s Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, or the EU AI Act, took effect on February 2, 2025. ...more

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AI Literacy Requirements are in Effect : AI Skilling and Lifelong Learning in the Workplace

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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

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A New Prohibition Era for AI: Why You Could Be ‘Bootlegging’ Banned Tech

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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

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First Milestone in the Implementation of the EU AI Act

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The AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of June 13, 2024, laying down harmonized rules on artificial intelligence) is the European Union’s comprehensive legal framework on AI, which aims to promote the responsible development...more

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Outbound Investments: European Commission Calls for Review

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On January 15, 2025, the European Commission (EC) issued a non-binding recommendation “calling on EU Member States to review outbound investments” in certain strategic sectors. The primary goal of the recommendation is to...more

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Dirty Data Damaging Deals – Data Issues in AI M&A

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2024 saw strong interest in M&A involving companies that use or develop AI offerings. The rise of AI has brought new issues for dealmakers. In particular, 2024 also saw regulators focusing further on the collection and use of...more

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The First Requirements of the EU AI Act Come into Force in February 2025

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Earlier this year, the European Parliament approved the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (the “AI Act”) by a sweeping majority, becoming the world’s first comprehensive set of rules for artificial intelligence....more

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UK AI: existing regulators take the lead

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As further initiatives come in to play and legislation is on the horizon, existing regulators (such as the ICO, CMA, Ofcom and FCA) continue to press on with their approach to AI regulation, including through the Digital...more

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EU AI Office Publishes a First Draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice

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On November 14, 2024, the EU AI Office published a first draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (draft Code), the first of four drafting rounds that will conclude in April 2025....more

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Navigating Global Approaches to AI Regulation

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As artificial intelligence continues to advance at a rapid pace, countries around the world are formulating strategies to balance the benefits of generative AI with its potential risks. This post provides an overview of how...more

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The EU Artificial Intelligence Act of 2024: What You Need To Know

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On August 2, the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (the Act) became effective. It is the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for regulating artificial intelligence (AI) and aims to ensure that AI products and...more

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The Framework Convention on AI: A Landmark Agreement for Ethical AI

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AI is changing the world, but how do we ensure we’re developing and using it ethically? In September 2024, the new Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law was opened for...more

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How Can Companies Tackle Europe’s AI and Data Protection Rules?

Life science companies will have to grapple with unique questions in complying with the European Artificial Intelligence Act, including the scope of the law’s research exemption and the use of AI in personalized medicine and...more

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