In a recent webinar, Kit Burden, Partner in our Tech and Sourcing team caught up with Gareth Stokes, Global Co-Chair of our Technology Sector and AI Practice, along with Aarushi Jain, Partner in the Technology and Media team at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas to discuss AI in the global market. In addition to looking at the
The European Union has ushered in a new era of digital regulation that will significantly impact the data centre industry. With the introduction of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, the new Network and Information Systems Directive (NIS2) and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) data centre operators, investors, and service providers must prepare for a
Part 2: You’re Only Liable Twice: Agentic AI errors.
Agentic AI and its ability to perform tasks autonomously on behalf of users, without the regular prompting associated with more traditional AI models, is the new frontier of AI. Many organisations are betting big on the significant advancements and conveniences it affords.
But with great autonomy
The European Commission has recently published its “AI Continent Action Plan”[1] and, doing so, set itself no less a task than winning the global race for AI leadership and making Europe the leading AI continent. This shall be achieved by, inter alia, investing over EUR 200 billion to boost AI development in Europe and
On 15 April 2025, the Digital Policy Office (DPO) of the Hong Kong Government published the Hong Kong Generative Artificial Intelligence Technical and Application Guideline (Guideline), seeking to encourage stakeholders in Hong Kong to engage in generative AI (GenAI) activities safely and responsibly. The Guideline is formulated by the Hong Kong Generative AI Research and
Emotion recognition artificial intelligence (Emotion AI) refers to AI which uses various biometric and other data sets such as facial expressions, keystrokes, tone of voice and behavioural mannerisms to identify, infer and analyse emotions. Based on ‘affective computing’, with origins in the 90s, this multidisciplinary field draws together the studies of natural language processing, psychology
In a recent webinar forming part of DLA Piper’s ‘Digital Evolution in conversation with’ series, Rami Zayat caught up with Jan Geert Meents, Joanna Sykes-Saavedra and Sophie Levett to discuss the future of cloud transformation. In addition to looking at various aspects of cloud deals across the UK, EU, US, and the Middle East, they
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
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