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Date: September 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT

Format: Live Video

Duration: 1 Hour

Description: With limited federal regulation on consumer protection, data privacy, and AI, states are stepping in, creating a patchwork of laws that vary widely in scope and enforcement. While California and Colorado set high standards, other states like Maryland, Minnesota, and Oregon are

Recently, Squire Patton Boggs Tokyo and Shanghai Partner Scott Warren was cited in an article in Lexology Pro, written by Victoria Hudgins, comparing the US and China AI action plans. Both plans set more aspirational goals, while establishing a framework for AI security. Read the article (subscription required).

In addition, Scott will be speaking at the

On June 30, 2025, the California Civil Rights Council (CRC) secured final approval for regulations addressing employment discrimination resulting from the use of artificial intelligence and other algorithms it collectively refers to as Automated-Decision Systems. Shortly after that, on July 24, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency Board approved its own long-anticipated regulations on cybersecurity

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

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

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

The European Commission published its long-awaited Guidelines on Prohibited AI Practices (CGPAIP) on February 4, 2025, two days after the AI Act’s articles on prohibited practices became applicable.

The good news is that in clarifying these prohibited practices (and those excluded from its material scope), the CGPAIP also addresses other more general aspects