Europe: Technology

AI Agents are transforming commerce by autonomously selecting goods, comparing prices, and initiating payments on behalf of consumers. This briefing explores the complex regulatory challenges and opportunities that agentic commerce presents for businesses, from contract formation and payment regulation to consumer protection and strategic partnerships.

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The Marks & Clerk AI Report 2024 explores the challenges of ownership and protection of AI-generated designs. While AI-generated products can meet design registration requirements, questions remain about who qualifies as the owner. The report reviews patent rulings on AI inventorship and explores protections available via Registered and Unregistered Design Rights in the UK, EU, and US. The UK offers Unregistered Design Rights, potentially available for AI-generated designs if marketed in qualify

Dan Klein sits down with Andrew Humphris, Founder and CTO of Infinitesima, to explore the semiconductor technologies powering the AI revolution and the challenge of manufacturing at atomic scale. This episode examines what the future holds for the hardware underpinning next-generation innovation.

This comprehensive report examines the evolving landscape of personal data protection in Türkiye, analyzing regulatory developments, enforcement trends, and emerging compliance challenges through 2025 and into the first half of 2026. The analysis covers the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority's expanding guidance framework, significant enforcement actions totaling TRY 352.5 million in fines, and critical regulatory shifts including new cybersecurity legislation and constitutional court decisions

The European Union has spent the last decade reshaping the digital regulatory landscape through landmark legislation such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the AI Act. The European Health Data Space (EHDS) Regulation is the next significant step in that evolution. While often described as a healthcare initiative, the EHDS is at its core a data governance framework designed to unlock the value of electronic health data while safeguarding fundamental rights and promoting innovation.

Switzerland has spent the past decade building one of the world's most advanced legal environments for financial technology. The very features that attract fintech and blockchain ventures – early regulatory clarity, the DLT framework, a dense financial infrastructure and a strongly international client base – are now generating a steady stream of disputes of considerable legal and technical complexity. Such disputes arise from payment services, digital banking, lending platforms, crypto-assets and custody arrangements, outsourcing relationships, cybersecurity incidents and regulatory enforcement.

The Central Bank of Ireland (“CBI”) has published the second edition of its Payments and E-Money Newsletter (the “Newsletter”), providing an update on its supervisory priorities, regulatory developments and key focus areas for payment institutions and electronic money institutions.

The Financial Action Task Force releases new guidance on decentralised finance regulatory challenges, while the Bank of England addresses frontier AI cyber risks and the UK crypto sector faces banking access restrictions. Global regulators continue advancing virtual asset standards and stablecoin frameworks.

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Im Rechtspanorama am 04.03.2024 berichtet RAK Vize-Präsidentin Mag. Bettina Knoetzl über das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz.

The European Union Digital Services Act (DSA) now applies to all digital "intermediary services" that provide users with access to online goods, services, and content.