6/2/2026 2:00:49 PM Spotlight on agentic AI | What is agentic AI? By Vik Khurana Charlie Hawes Before turning to the legal, contractual and governance issues, it is worth being clear about what we mean by “agentic AI”. As with AI...
6/1/2026 10:47:53 AM UK venture capital: a market rebounding? By Jamie May Despite a backdrop of persistent geopolitical uncertainty, the UK venture capital (VC) space has entered a period of renewed growth and...
5/7/2026 1:47:15 PM AI Act Omnibus: EU institutions agree political deal By Charlie Hawes Vik Khurana Simon McDougall The EU Commission, Parliament and Council have each announced this morning that a political deal has been reached overnight on the AI Act...
4/30/2026 1:43:10 PM State capital meets supercomputing – the UK Government’s Sovereign AI fund announcement By Oliver Alsop At a glanceThe UK Government has launched Sovereign AI, a £500m state-backed investment fund established to invest in British AI...
4/28/2026 10:26:17 AM Can AI be sued? By Ben Coleman The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) is consulting on a Legal Statement exploring how English private law might deal with harm caused by...
3/24/2026 7:10:42 PM From AI pricing algorithms to public procurement: UK Competition and Markets Authority publishes its 2026–27 annual plan By Victoria Yuan James Batsford On 23 March, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published its 2026-2027 Annual Plan (the Annual Plan): the first since the...
3/23/2026 11:08:53 AM Bristows - Cease & Discuss: Copyright By Jeremy Blum Toby Headdon Stop and get into the ever-evolving brandscape of intellectual property and advertising with our brand-new podcast, Bristows Cease and...
3/20/2026 4:19:58 PM AI and copyright in the UK - the government decides to wait and see By Sean Ibbetson Earlier this week, the UK government published its much-anticipated report on the interaction between copyright law and AI. It has been...
3/18/2026 8:36:30 AM Podcast: Contracting for AI – latest market practice By Vik Khurana William White In this episode, Vik Khurana and William White break down how the rise of generative and agentic AI is reshaping technology contracting....
3/16/2026 12:39:42 PM AI agents are starting to act for consumers: do the rules still work? By Antonia Kendrick Francion Brooks Consumers may soon start delegating everyday decisions to AI systems. From cancelling subscriptions to switching providers or negotiating...
2/20/2026 9:54:10 AM Podcast: UK Supreme Court rewrites the rules on patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions By Richard Pinckney Naoise Gaffney In today's podcast, Richard Pinckney and Naoise Gaffney disseminate the key takeaways from the Supreme Court's decision in Emotional...
2/18/2026 8:33:11 AM AI-generated client docs are not privileged (says US Court) By Freya Ollerearnshaw In the US case of United States v Heppner, a Federal Judge ruled that AI-generated documents produced by the Defendant and subsequently...