7/30/2026 4:21:16 PM The AI Act’s next big deadline is here By Charlie Hawes Vik Khurana Tom Sharpe On 2 August 2026, the EU AI Act reaches its general date of application - the point at which most of its provisions take effect and...
7/30/2026 4:16:39 PM The European Commission's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content By Georgia Austin Gabriela Swiderska Charlie Hawes Vik Khurana Tom Sharpe +2 more... Show less On 2 August 2026, the transparency obligations for AI providers and deployers under Article 50 of the EU AI Act start to apply. To help...
7/29/2026 4:54:08 PM Microsoft, Copilot and subscription transparency: CMA opens new consumer protection investigation By Naina Patel The latest UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation has recently been announced, this time looking into Microsoft’s...
7/29/2026 3:55:23 PM New MHRA guidance on regulation of Ambient Voice Technology (AI Scribes) By Jamie Hatzel The MHRA today released new guidance (AVT Guidance) on Ambient Voice Technology (AVT) products and the circumstances in which these do...
7/22/2026 9:04:05 AM AI governance in practice: moving from policy to live controls By Tom Sharpe Vik Khurana Many organisations now have AI policies and governance frameworks in place. The challenge is to create controls that are clear enough to...
7/21/2026 9:29:00 AM Spotlight on Agentic AI | Agentic AI and Consumer Protection By Alice Esuola-Grant Jamie Cox-Deakins Consumer protection law has grown in prominence with the introduction of the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024...
7/20/2026 11:19:05 AM AI governance: a practical roadmap By Vik Khurana Tom Sharpe AI governance has moved quickly from an emerging issue to a practical priority for organisations developing, procuring or deploying AI....
7/20/2026 10:18:09 AM Podcast: Bristows - Cease & Discuss: Me, Myself & AI: Face trade marks and personality rights in the new age of digital replicas By Paul Jordan Tim Heaps From football pitches to the oche to the farm, familiar faces are heading to the UK Intellectual Property Office. Cole Palmer, Luke...
7/15/2026 9:48:55 AM World models: from generation to simulation By Vik Khurana Tom Sharpe The market conversation around AI has moved quickly: from generative AI, designed to produce or transform content across text, image,...
7/13/2026 9:34:10 AM Buying AI: five questions that should shape the contract By Vik Khurana Tom Sharpe AI contracting discussions often focus on three familiar issues: whether customer data can be used to train or fine-tune a model, who...
7/8/2026 11:12:29 AM Spotlight on Agentic AI | The EU AI Act and Agentic AI By Vik Khurana Camille Beckmann Introduction So far in this series we have explained how agentic AI differs from other forms of AI and the risks those differences give...
6/30/2026 9:32:45 AM Spotlight on agentic AI | Agentic AI and data protection By Hannah Crowther The dependency of AI on data is a well-trodden subject. To-date, however, the focus has primarily been on vast quantities of data...