Editor’s Note: The EU’s biggest AI rules just got their first major reset, pending formal adoption. In the early hours of May 7, 2026, Council and Parliament negotiators landed a provisional agreement on the Digital Omnibus on AI that, if adopted before the original deadline, would push Annex III high-risk obligations from Aug. 2, 2026,…

Editor’s Note: Tallinn is stepping into the spotlight as Latitude59 2026 tests Estonia’s claim as the Capital of the New Nordics, bringing founders, investors, policy leaders, and global technology firms together May 20-22 at Kultuurikatel. Under the theme The Global Village Experiment, the conference frames cross-border collaboration as more than a regional ambition; it positions…

Editor’s Note: Services remains the larger of the two top-level segments of the worldwide eDiscovery market, growing from approximately $12.94 billion in 2025 to a projected $17.13 billion in 2030. The reconciled 5.75 percent compound annual growth rate is the slower of the two segment CAGRs, trailing software by 4.66 percentage points. The headline understates…

Editor’s Note: CISA’s May 5 release of CI Fortify reframes critical infrastructure resilience around an assumption many operators are not ready to plan against: that during a geopolitical conflict, third-party vendors, telecom links, business networks, and cloud platforms will be unreliable, and adversaries will already be inside. The agency now wants water utilities, power operators,…

Editor’s Note: Software is the segment of the worldwide eDiscovery market compounding fastest through 2030. Reconciled estimates highlight software spending growing from approximately $6.67 billion in 2025 to approximately $10.95 billion in 2030 – a 10.41 percent compound annual rate that exceeds the aggregate market CAGR by nearly three percentage points and the services CAGR…

Editor’s Note: Cyber leaders no longer have to argue, on faith, that artificial intelligence belongs at the center of defensive operations. With the May 2026 release of “Empowering Defenders: AI for Cybersecurity” — the World Economic Forum’s white paper, produced in collaboration with KPMG — the case is being made with quantified results: $1.9 million…

Editor’s Note: Microsoft’s new Legal Agent for Word moves contract-review AI from the edges of legal technology directly into the drafting environment where lawyers already work. For cybersecurity, data privacy, regulatory compliance, and eDiscovery professionals, the launch is more than another legal-AI product announcement. It signals a shift in where AI-generated legal work product is…