On April 15, 2026, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted guidelines on the processing of personal data for scientific research purposes.[1] The guidelines aim to clarify GDPR compliance requirements for scientific research involving personal data.
The digital era is our reality, in which the integration of artificial intelligence is gaining ever greater momentum.
Are you planning to develop an AI model to optimize business processes and services? Among a number of legal questions, the protection of personal data that will be used for the development and implementation of such models
Computerworld.com reported that “The AI agent introduction frenzy continued at a torrid pace this week, with OpenAI launching what it called workspace agents in ChatGPT and Microsoft adding hosted agents to its Foundry Agent Service.” The April 23, 2026 article entitled ” The agentic AI frenzy increases as more vendors stake their claims” (https://www.computerworld.com/article/4162908/the-agentic-ai-frenzy-increases-as-more-vendors-stake-their-claims-2.html) included
The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “The artificial intelligence boom has one big thing holding it back: energy. A.I. companies rely on power-hungry data centers to train their models, and they need gigawatts of power to keep them humming.” The April 27, 2026 “How Do You Measure A.I. Firms’ Gargantuan Energy Plans? In ‘Bragawatts.’” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/business/artificial-intelligence-energy-data-centers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share) included these comments:
With
The momentum behind a social media ban for Canadian minors has been building for months. The federal Liberals voted at their April policy convention to back a minimum age of 16 for social media accounts and AI chatbots, the government’s expert panel on online safety is studying the issue, protesters have now rallied on
Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Tonight brings huge news out of Sullivan & Cromwell.1 We can now add S&C, truly one of the
The prevailing narrative I hear in the legal world is that Claude is the “most human” of the LLMs and, especially, a nuanced, sophisticated writer. When I report that the system has begun to fail my specific research protocols, the common response is a suggestion that I am simply using the wrong version and a
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 68th episode of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!If you want to understand how empathy, storytelling, and technology can
The digital ticker at the bottom of my workspace doesn’t just track price action anymore; it tracks the wild whacky trends of geopolitics.
Listening to George Walker and Shelly Banjo discuss the state of play, I am struck by the paradox of our current era. We are living through a period of “Economic Antifragility,” where
Gavel, the Los Angeles-based legal AI company, today announced the launch of Gavel Exec for Web, a browser-based expansion of its AI contract review and drafting product that until now has lived primarily as an add-in inside Microsoft Word. “With Gavel Exec for Web, lawyers can chat with an AI purpose-built for legal work, benchmark