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On 3 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper setting out their proposals to implement and operate the new Digital Securities Sand...
Author(s): James Smethurst, Christopher Bernard, Olivia Davies
Artificial intelligence (AI) – and particularly generative AI – has accelerated the race toward ever more innovative data-driven products and services, and sharpened focus on the ever-growing importan...
Author(s): Beth George, Christine Lyon, Pamela Marcogliese, Elizabeth Bieber, Nomi Conway, Rachel Johnson
What is the difference between a high-risk AI system, certain AI systems with transparency risks, general-purpose AI models and general-purpose AI models with systemic risk? In the first post of our E...
Author(s): Theresa Ehlen, Christoph Werkmeister, Philipp Roos, Felix Müller-Eising
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) passed parliament in March 2024 and will likely be published in the EU Official Journal in June 2024. To assist businesses in navigating this groundbreaking...
Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Theresa Ehlen, Philipp Roos, Benjamin Blum
In March, the independent review into equity in medical devices chaired by Professor Dame Margaret Whitehead published its long-awaited final report, making wide-ranging recommendations to tackle exis...
Author(s): Harriet Hanks, Sanjana Canumalla, Matt Allison
Our earlier briefing summarised the new rules on cross-border data transfer issued on 22 March 2024. Accompanying the new rules, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) also released revised guid...
Author(s): Richard Bird, Fan Li
Like other parts of the EU Digital Strategy, also the Data Act reaffirms the supremacy of data protection laws, ensuring that the rights and obligations under the GDPR, being the centrepiece of EU dat...
Author(s): Gernot Fritz, Elisabeth Pferschy, Estella Dannhausen
In an earlier blog (here) we dissected the copyright framework for text and data mining under the EU Copyright Directive (Directive 2019/790/EU) and its applicability on AI training data. By way of th...
Author(s): Lutz Riede, Oliver Talhoff, Matthias Hofer