By: Cameron Abbott, Daniel Knight, Rob Pulham and Emre Cakmakcioglu
Western intelligence alliance Five Eyes has issued a strong warning to business leaders: AI-driven transformation of cyber risk is already here, and the time to act is now.
Read MoreBy: Cameron Abbott, Daniel Knight, Rob Pulham and Emre Cakmakcioglu
Mere days after an AI firm’s model hacked into Hugging Face, a separate AI company has now revealed that three of its models have hacked into three external companies during testing.
Read MoreBy: Sarah Pearce and Veronica Muratori
On 20 July 2026, the European Commission published its final Guidelines on the transparency obligations under Article 50 of the EU AI Act. Although non-binding, the Guidelines provide important practical clarification ahead of the application of these obligations. Article 50 is not limited to high-risk AI systems and may apply to a broad range of AI solutions, including chatbots, generative AI tools, emotion recognition systems, biometric categorization tools, and deepfake technologies.
Read MoreBy: Cameron Abbott and Emre Cakmakcioglu
An artificial intelligence research organisation has released a statement detailing how two of its cybersecurity models escaped from an internal testing sandbox to hack AI research platform Hugging Face.
Read MoreBy: Kathleen Parker and Carter Norfleet
Starting 1 January 2025, California Assembly Bill 2602 (AB 2602) will prohibit the use of vague, unfair, and unethical contractual terms that, without the performer’s full awareness, permit the unregulated production, use, and distribution of digital replicas of their likeness.
Read MoreBy: Christopher Valente, Scott Gelbman, and Joshua Durham
Artificial intelligence (AI) remains top of mind for lawmakers and regulators, who continue to grapple with new legislative proposals, as well as a changing regulatory regime designed to prepare the United States government to interact with AI-related issues, while also positioning the United States to be a leader in AI innovation. In line with 15 USC Ch. 119 and Executive Order 14110, two more bipartisan House bills were just introduced to further the government’s response to AI.
Read MoreBy: Claude-Etienne Armingaud and Anna Gaentzhirt
In alignment with the ongoing concerns from several European data protection authorities publishing guidelines on data scrapping (i.e., the Dutch DPA, the Italian DPA and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office), the Global Privacy Assembly (GPA)’s International Enforcement Cooperation Working Group (IEWG) recently published a Joint statement on data scraping and the protection of privacy (signed by the Canadian, British, Australian, Swiss, Norwegian, Moroccan, Mexican, and Jersey data protection authorities) to provide further input for businesses when considering data.
Read MoreBy: Cameron Abbott
As much as artificial intelligence (AI) remains a hot topic to companies and individuals alike, there remains limited detailed regulation in place. The European Union published its Artificial Intelligence Act on 12 July 2024, but other jurisdictions have been slow or piecemeal in its regulation of AI.
Read MoreBy: Cameron Abbott, Rob Pulham, and Dadar Ahmadi-Pirshahid
Astonishingly (…or perhaps not, for anyone who’s answered a phone call recently), “imposter calls” are the number one offender of spam calls in the United States, amounting to 33% of all phone calls according to a recent study by QR Code Generator.
Read MoreBy Jason W. Callen and Christopher J. Valente
On 21 March 2024, Tennessee became the first state in the United States to prohibit unauthorized use of artificial intelligence (AI) to replicate an individual’s likeness, image, and voice when its governor signed the Ensuring Likeness, Voice and Image Security Act of 2024 (ELVIS Act). The protections in the ELVIS Act for a person’s voice from AI misuse is particularly notable. Tennessee, like other states, already had prohibitions on unauthorized use of an individual’s likeness and image. And while some other states, such as California, have also protected a person’s voice, none had expressly linked all three—likeness, image, and voice—to AI.
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