Laion case could steer EU AI copyright reform
September 09, 2026
| Inbar Preiss
Germany’s top civil court is poised to send a copyright dispute between a photographer and AI dataset provider Laion to the EU's top court, raising questions over text and data mining, machine-readable opt-out... (more story)
AI tests UK financial regulations' scope along with firms' cyber defenses
September 08, 2026
| Patricia Figueiredo
The growing popularity of using AI to inform financial decisions is raising questions about whether the UK's Financial Conduct Authority should change its regulatory approach to manage the risks of the fast de... (more story)
India's DABUS copyright test may not work for everyday AI users
September 08, 2026
| Freny Patel
India’s Copyright Office identified the human author for artwork generated by Stephen Thaler's DABUS-artificial intelligence system, but doing so for outputs produced through commercial generative-AI tools may... (more story)
Frontier AI hacking incidents expose gaps in EU rulebook
September 07, 2026
| Masha Borak
Hacking incidents involving frontier AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic have raised questions about whether the EU's landmark AI law should be updated to cover the risks posed by technology that's sti... (more story)
OpenAI agent breach strains IP rules built around human conduct
September 04, 2026
| Melissa Ritti
A recent unauthorized download of private code and data hosted on Hugging Face — and public staging of some of the same material — is surfacing new questions about liability under US intellectual property law,... (more story)
Nvidia's Hugging Face openness pledge identifies US, EU antitrust fault line
September 03, 2026
| Flavia Fortes and Andrew Boyce
Nvidia’s promise to preserve Hugging Face as an open, hardware-neutral platform anticipates what is likely to become the central issue in the antitrust reviews of its $12.93 billion acquisition: whether the do... (more story)
Trump administration escalates AI training defense with US court statement
September 02, 2026
| Emma Whitford
President Donald Trump’s administration took its most forceful action to date defending artificial intelligence companies’ model training practices, telling a federal judge that a “narrow” fair use analysis wo... (more story)
Utility of US consumer laws in spotlight after AI hacking incident
August 31, 2026
| Emma Whitford
A novel hacking incident this summer involving autonomous OpenAI agents has garnered the attention of US state regulators looking to protect their citizens from rogue technologies absent specifically tailored ... (more story)