Introduction
The UK investigations and enforcement landscape continues to shift.
The Crime and Policing Act 2026, which received Royal Assent on 29 April, includes a significant expansion of corporate criminal liability, extending the senior manager attribution test to all criminal offences – a development with potentially far-reaching implications for businesses.
It is a time of
On May 1, the Connecticut legislature passed an artificial intelligence (“AI”) safety, transparency, and consumer protection bill (“SB 5”). While the Colorado legislature takes steps to streamline existing requirements for developers and deployers of AI systems, Connecticut has passed a multi-part framework that will impose requirements on large frontier developers, operators of AI companions, developers
Cybersecurity and data-compliance due diligence has evolved from a routine risk-mitigation exercise into a decisive factor that can determine the success or failure of mergers and acquisitions involving Chinese targets. This article examines the legal framework underpinning that shift, identifies five core areas of diligence that buyers must scrutinise, analyses recent enforcement actions and landmark
On May 8, 2026, the European Commission (“Commission”) published draft guidelines (“Guidelines”) on the implementation of the transparency obligations under Article 50 of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”), opening a targeted consultation that runs until June 3, 2026.
The Guidelines are non-binding, but they are the first Commission instrument to provide interpretive guidance
The healthtech industry is experiencing intense competition as companies race to develop software and artificial intelligence (AI) tools for clinical decision support, medical telemetry, robotic surgery, surgical navigation, medical imaging analysis, drug discovery, clinical trial management, and countless other medical applications. This competitive landscape is driving substantial investment and rapid innovation, with established medtech providers,
On May 7, the Colorado Senate passed SB 189, a bill that would repeal and replace the state’s Colorado AI Act enacted in 2024 and scheduled to take effect on June 30, 2026. If enacted, SB 189 would replace the current framework with a narrower statute focusing primarily on disclosure, recordkeeping, and consumer notice
On April 30, 2026, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced S. 3062, the Guidelines for User Age-verification and Responsible Dialogue Act of 2025 (the “GUARD Act”), marking a significant development in federal efforts to regulate certain uses of artificial intelligence (AI) involving minors. The bill now awaits consideration by the full Senate.
Senators
International regulators are finalizing the first global safety standards for Automated Driving Systems (“ADS”). In January, the UN Working Party on Automated/Autonomous and Connected Vehicles (“GRVA”) approved a draft UN Regulation (“UNR”) under the 1958 Agreement and a draft Global Technical Regulation (“GTR”) under the 1998 Agreement, submitting both for adoption by the UN World
“Technological progress may be irreversible, but it cannot exist outside a legal framework.” While workers in the western world agonize over what seems to be an impending job apocalypse, their Chinese counterparts are winning in pitched legal battles against AI automation. Last week, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese court ruled that companies can’t
EU Member States are currently designing two possible new Important Projects of Common European Interest (“IPCEIs”) to support the development of AI and compute infrastructure in the EU (together the “Digital IPCEIs”), subject to European Commission (“Commission”) approval.
On 10 March 2026, the “matchmaking” phase under the IPCEI on Artificial Intelligence (“IPCEI-AI”) was officially launched