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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
Background AI is transforming industries. Companies around the world are accelerating their organisational pace to adapt and integrate AI into their business models. Like most key technologies, AI is ...
Author(s): Thomas Mollnhuber
The use of AI has grown rapidly, from simplistic chatbots to sophisticated conversationalists that are close to passing the Turing test of whether a machine can engage in a conversation with a human w...
Author(s): Rikki Haria, Theresa Ehlen, Christine Lyon, Jeanne Queneudec, Edward Dean, Christine Chong, Laura Llangozi
As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 we have crowdsourced some fintech predictions for the year ahead from the EU Freshfields Fintech team, with a couple of longer-term trends. The topics for these predicti...
Author(s): Natalie Pettinger Kearney, Eva Schneider, Alicia Hildner, Daniel Klingenbrunn, Jimena Gonzalez, Victor Garcia Lopez