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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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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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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If hearing the word “prohibition” brings to mind the moonshine, speakeasies, and bootleg liquor of 1920s America, you’re not alone. It conjures images from ‘Boardwalk Empire’ or ‘The Untouchables’. But today’s prohibition isn’t about gin or whiskey – it’s about AI. With the EU’s new “prohibited AI” rules in force
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In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, data scraping is a hot topic. The copying of online text, images and videos has beneficial use cases (e.g. training AI models for more accurate fraud detection or collecting contact details of business representatives
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In a recent webinar forming part of DLA Piper’s ‘Digital Evolution in conversation with’ series, Technology Transactions and Sourcing partner Lauren Hurcombe caught up with Gareth Stokes and Jeanne Dauzier, DLA Piper’s International Co-Chairs of the AI Practice, to discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by navigating AI from a
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As the first court in Germany, the Hamburg Regional Court (‘Landgericht Hamburg‘) ruled on Artificial Intelligence whether datasets used for AI training activities may infringe German copyright law (Judgment as of 27 September 2024 – file no. 310 O 227/23).
The plaintiff is a photographer who made
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