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The ICO has, this week, published extensive guidance on its expectations on Agentic AI, ICO tech futures: Agentic AI | ICO. The UK data protection regulator’s core message is clear: the future of the success of this technology is rooted in accountability.

Investor expectations on the realisation of commercial

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The European Space Agency launched the James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas Day 2021 from its facility in French Guiana. A collaboration between NASA, CSA and ESA, the JWST’s launch could not have gone better – a perfect ballet of rocketry, automation and cutting -edge science. The James Webb continues

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In a significant stride toward strengthening digital stability in Europe’s financial sector, the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA) have, today, published the list of critical ICT third‑party service providers under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This move gives the ESAs direct oversight of some of the

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The EU is advancing toward its Digital Decade goal of digital transformation by 2030, which includes at least 75% of EU business using cloud-edge technologies for their activities. Meanwhile, one of the cornerstone regulations is promising to reshape the legal and operational landscape for cloud service providers (CSPs) and their customers.

The

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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

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Part 1: Key Legal Considerations for Agentic AI.

Do you have GenAI fatigue? Well, there is a new kid on the block which promises to transform the use of AI. 

The name’s AI… Agentic AI. Licensed to skill…   

Agentic AI can independently act and adapt to changing environments without

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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

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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

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It’s DORA day! The EU financial services sector has been anticipating today since the Digital Operational Resilience Act was published in December 2022. DORA brings a significant shift to the sector in terms of how financial entities must manage risk linked to use of technologies, and it has created one

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In a recent webinar forming part of DLA Piper’s ‘Digital Evolution in conversation with’ series, Kristof de Vulder caught up with Alessandro Ferrari, Linzi Penman and Conor McEneaney to discuss the scope and impact of the upcoming Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). They offered practical guidance to organisations dealing

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