Mike Tyson once said “[e]veryone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” This quote describes the confidence that organizations may have in their existing trade secret plans, until they encounter some of the evolving complexities of trade secret protection in this era of the combination of remote work and artificial intelligence (AI).
The EU AI Act is entering into force in stages. While most of its provisions will not apply until August 2026, key requirements for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models took effect much earlier, starting on August 2, 2025.
In anticipation of this earlier milestone, the Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI Models was published on the
Imagine it’s the year 2040. Corporate disputes are no longer resolved by lawyers. Instead, artificial intelligence (AI) records the facts from available data, automatically prepares the necessary legal documents, and sends them to the opposing party and the court. The general counsels of the companies involved in the dispute are disappointed that human judges still
President Trump’s Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan, released on July 23, 2025, marks a significant shift from the Biden Administration’s AI governance framework, most notably Executive Order 14110 (November 2023). The previous approach emphasized risk mitigation, civil rights protections, equity considerations, and oversight of advanced AI models under authorities such as the Defense
The inflow of investment and research into artificial intelligence (AI) shows no sign of abating, with interest increasingly shifting to more customised and targeted uses of the technology. However, for all but the largest companies seeking to harness AI, doing so requires renting computing capacity from specialised hardware providers. Rental arrangements for GPUs are now
As many will know, the Autonomous Vehicle Act 2024 (the “AV Act”) paved the way to legalising the use of autonomous vehicles on UK roads. However, before any autonomous vehicles can be used on the UK roads (other than under controlled trials), it is important to be aware that the AV Act does not, at
As companies begin to move beyond large language model (LLM)-powered assistants into fully autonomous agents—AI systems that can plan, take actions, and adapt without human-in-the-loop—legal and privacy teams must be aware of the use cases and the risks that come with them.
What is Agentic AI?Agentic AI refers to AI systems—often built using LLMs but
This article originally appeared in Finextra on 22 May 2025
A quiet revolution is happening in the pensions industry, as it starts to embrace the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for more than number crunching.
AI has been used in pensions for several decades, but this has largely been for back office work, such as
With the entry into force of the AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) in August 2024, a pioneering framework of AI was established.
On February 2, 2025, the first provisions of the AI Act became applicable, including the AI system definition, AI literacy and a limited number of prohibited AI practices. In line with article 96 of
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into business operations, IT contracts covering the provision of AI systems are evolving to include critical safeguards. One emerging concept is the AI circuit breaker, a contractual mechanism that provides for an intervention, or override, where an AI system exhibits undesirable or harmful behavior.
When contracting for AI, businesses
