On February 7, 2025, the OECD launched a voluntary framework for companies to report on their efforts to promote safe, secure and trustworthy AI. This global reporting framework is intended to monitor and support the application of the International Code of Conduct for Organisations Developing Advanced AI Systems delivered by the 2023 G7 Hiroshima AI
U.S. Federal and State Governments Moving Quickly to Restrict Use of DeepSeek
Last month, DeepSeek, an AI start-up based in China, grabbed headlines with claims that its latest large language AI model, DeepSeek-R1, could perform on par with more expensive and market-leading AI models despite allegedly requiring less than $6 million dollars’ worth of computing power from older and less-powerful chips. Although some industry observers have raised
Brazil’s Digital Policy in 2025: AI, Cloud, Cyber, Data Centers, and Social Media
Executive Summary
- Artificial intelligence (AI), social media, and instant messaging regulation will be a hot topic in Brazil in 2025, with substantial activity in Congress and the Supreme Court.
- Cloud, cybersecurity, data centers, and data privacy are topics that could also see legislative or regulatory action throughout the year at different policymaking stages.
- Technology companies
White House AI Executive Order sets its sights on free-market innovation
Increased state-level regulation potentially on the horizon
On January 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the Executive Order (EO) Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. The artificial intelligence (AI)- focused EO is anticipated by the White House to “sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance” while continuing to develop “AI systems that
Failure to Prevent Fraud: New guidance for the financial services sector
Following publication of the government’s guidance in November 2025 and ahead of the new offence coming into force on 1 September 2025, UK Finance has published guidance for the financial services sector on failure to prevent fraud (FtPF) which it says “should be taken into account by a supervisory or enforcement agency when considering and/or
Clock is Ticking for Responses to UK Government Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
The authors wish to thank Sumaiyah Razzaq for her contributions to this post.
Ever since the emergence of generative AI, a major concern for all participants has been the extent to which copyright works can and should be used in training AI models.
The application of UK copyright law for this purpose is disputed, leading
Court: Training AI Model Based on Copyrighted Data Is Not Fair Use as a Matter of Law
In what may turn out to be an influential decision, Judge Stephanos Bibas ruled as a matter of law in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence that creating short summaries of law to train Ross Intelligence’s artificial intelligence legal research application not only infringes Thomson Reuters’ copyrights as a matter of law but that the copying
January 2025 AI Developments – Transitioning to the Trump Administration
This is the first in a new series of Covington blogs on the AI policies, executive orders, and other actions of the new Trump Administration. This blog describes key actions on AI taken by the Trump Administration in January 2025.
Outgoing President Biden Issues Executive Order and Data Center Guidance for AI Infrastructure
Before turning
What President Trump Might Do on Critical Minerals
Barely noticed in the firehose stream of presidential activity since the inauguration was a brief Oval Office mention of cutting a deal with Ukraine for access to its critical minerals. Securing steady access to uranium, the rare earth elements, and other critical minerals is a natural priority for an America First agenda, so President Trump’s
The Weekly Round Up: Review of Lucy Letby’s case, Vos’s AI endorsement, US trade war heats up and a deprivation of liberty order in the Court of Appeal
In UK News
Medical experts have claimed that Lucy Letby did not murder any babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, concluding that the infants died of natural causes and negligent medical care. Having reviewed the medical evidence, a panel of 14 world-leading neonatologists have concluded that they “did not find any murders”. The case