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On 14 October 2026, European Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2274 was published in the Official Journal of the European Union and entered into force the same day. It cites EN 18286:2026, developed by CEN and CENELEC, as the first harmonised standard supporting the Artificial Intelligence Act. Providers of high-risk AI systems may apply the standard on a voluntary basis.
Read article ↗On October 21, 2026, legal AI company Legora announced that it had closed a $550 million Series E round led by Atreides Management at a post-money valuation of $8.8 billion, up from $5.6 billion in its previous round. The company says its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has exceeded $200 million and that the United States is now its largest market by revenue.
Read article ↗On October 21, 2026, Judge Eumi K. Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, heard argument on the cross-motions for summary judgment in the case brought by eight music publishers, including Concord, against Anthropic (Case No. 5:24-cv-03811-EKL). The hearing lasted about 4 hours 43 minutes.
Read article ↗On 31 July 2026, the Munich I Regional Court in Germany delivered its first-instance judgment in GEMA v. Suno (Case No. 42 O 763/25), largely granting the claims brought by GEMA, the music copyright collective management organization, against the AI music generation service Suno. The court held that the “memorization” of songs in model parameters constitutes reproduction, and that the text and data mining exception does not cover storage within the model.
Read article ↗On October 20, 2026, Rick Abramson, director of the U.S. FDA's Digital Health Center of Excellence, said at a medical device industry conference in Boston that generative AI medical devices may need to undergo competency assessment the way physicians do, and said the FDA intends to draft policy guidance within a few months. So far, this approach appears only in a discussion paper released in August and in officials' remarks at the event.
Read article ↗In March 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the National Radio and Television Administration jointly issued the Measures for Labeling Artificial Intelligence-Generated and Synthesized Content (Guoxinbantongzi 〔2025〕 No. 2). The Measures took effect on September 1, 2025, and the supporting mandatory national standard GB 45438-2025 took effect on the same day. The Measures consist of fourteen articles and set out rules for explicit and implicit labels on generated and synthesized content.
Read article ↗The U.S. Copyright Office's Copyright and Artificial Intelligence report series currently lists three volumes on its website: Volume 1 addresses digital replicas (July 31, 2024), Volume 2 addresses the copyrightability of AI-generated content (January 29, 2025), and Volume 3 addresses generative AI training (pre-publication version released May 9, 2025). The reports are policy studies and recommendations provided to Congress.
Read article ↗On December 27, 2023, The New York Times Company sued Microsoft and OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Case No. 1:23-cv-11195), alleging that they used Times articles without permission to train models and reproduced its reporting in chat and search products. In 2025 the court dismissed some of the claims, while the core infringement claims proceeded; in September 2026 the parties filed motions for summary judgment.
Read article ↗In January 2023, three illustrators sued Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that the companies used their works without permission to train image-generation models (Case No. 3:23-cv-00201-WHO). Judge William Orrick ruled on the claims through two rounds of motions to dismiss.
Read article ↗The Measures for the Administration of Personal Information Protection Compliance Audits (Cyberspace Administration of China Order No. 18) were promulgated on February 12, 2025 and took effect on May 1, 2025. The Measures and their annex, the Guidelines for Personal Information Protection Compliance Audits, set out detailed rules for Articles Fifty-Four and Sixty-Four of the Personal Information Protection Law. Processors must conduct audits regularly. Those processing the personal information of more than 1000 wan (ten million) individuals must do so at least once every two years.
Read article ↗On April 23, 2024, the Beijing Internet Court delivered its first-instance judgment in Yin Mouzhen v. a Beijing Intelligent Technology Company et al., a personality rights dispute, case number (2023) Jing 0491 Min Chu No. 12142. A voice actor's recordings had been turned into an AI text-to-speech product and sold to the public. The court held that as long as an AI voice can be identified as the person by the general public or by the public within a certain scope, it falls within the scope of protection of that person's voice rights and interests.
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