The first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence (AI), Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the EU AI Act), entered into force last year. Rather than taking immediate effect, the harmonized rules on AI under the Act have been staggered in application.
The first of the EU AI Act’s obligations took effect on
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Part 3: No Time to Hire: Will Agentic AI transform the workplace?
The advent of agentic AI is widely predicted to have a significant impact on the workforce, with it automating tasks currently performed by humans once believed to be beyond automation. This will lead to humans working alongside so-called
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The European Commission (Commission) adopted its long-anticipated guidelines on the scope of obligations for general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) models under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act) (Guidelines) on July 18, 2025. The Guidelines closely follow the publication of the Commission’s and AI Office’s GPAI Code of Practice (Code), which outlines several
We previously wrote about a Chinese court decision that protected the copyright of AI-generated images in the ‘half heart’ case. However, in a recent case, the Zhangjiagang People’s Court (in China’s Jiangsu province) denied copyright protection for AI-generated works.
In the new ‘butterfly chairs’ case, the plaintiff used the AI
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The European Commission published its General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (Code) on July 10, 2025, after a long drafting process that was originally intended to conclude in May 2025. The development of the code was facilitated by the European AI Office, and involved nearly 1,000 stakeholders, including academics, model developers
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
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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 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
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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
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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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