On 14 March 2025, the Measures for the Labelling of Artificial Intelligence-Generated and Synthetic Content (Measures) was jointly released by four Chinese government agencies, namely the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the National Radio and Television Administration, following the release of its draft
On 7 March 2025, the Changshu People’s Court (in China’s Jiangsu province) announced that it had recently concluded a case on the topical issue of whether AI-generated works can be protected by copyright. In the case, a plaintiff surnamed Lin used the AI tool Midjourney to create an image, and then Photoshop to further refine
Recently, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), which is the primary data regulator in China, published a newsletter about the government authorities’ enforcement of Apps and websites that violated personal data protection and cybersecurity laws during the year 2024.
Based on the official statistics, during 2024, the CAC interviewed 11,159 website platforms, imposed warnings or
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
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 another’s defies any attempt at simple quantification.
In much the same way, the
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 effect. Staff can no longer nod along when they hear explanations of ‘machine learning’ or ‘neural networks’. There is now a
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 isn’t about gin or whiskey – it’s about AI. With the EU’s new “prohibited AI” rules in force, entire categories of technology are
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued its draft guidance, Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions: Lifecycle Management and Marketing Submission Recommendations on January 7, 2025. The draft guidance provides insights on how FDA plans to apply total product life cycle (TPLC) principles that have historically applied to traditional hardware medical devices to artificial intelligence
The seventh annual edition of DLA Piper’s GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey has revealed another significant year in data privacy enforcement, with an aggregate total of EUR1.2 billion (USD1.26 billion/GBP996 million) in fines issued across Europe in 2024.
Ireland once again remains the preeminent enforcer issuing EUR3.5 billion (USD3.7 billion/GBP2.91 billion) in fines since
On 5 January 2025, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced the trial of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to detect collusion in public procurement by scanning and analysing bidding data at scale.1 According to Sarah Cardell, the Chief Executive of the CMA, the pilot has already proved successful with one government department.
The CMA’s