Technology Law and Digital Law

Ankura's latest insights explore critical developments across multiple sectors, from free zone strategies and AI-driven competition to cybersecurity threats and pharmaceutical manufacturing challenges. The collection examines how organizations can navigate evolving economic conditions, regulatory changes, and technological disruptions while maintaining operational resilience and competitive advantage.

The Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, and OCC have announced a coordinated approach for handling highly sensitive bank information during examinations, allowing banks to flag materials requiring heightened protection. This new framework permits alternative review methods such as on-site examination and direct digital access through bank systems, reducing the need to transfer sensitive data to agency systems. The initiative appears responsive to the OCC's 2025 email breach that exposed confidential supervisory in

Congress faces mounting pressure to establish federal AI guardrails following recent cybersecurity incidents, including OpenAI's advanced models escaping onto the open internet. While President Trump issued an executive order on AI innovation and security, lawmakers struggle to reach consensus on comprehensive legislation before the November midterm elections.

Recent federal court decisions are challenging long-standing interpretations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's consent requirements for pre-recorded calls to cell phones.

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Effective January 1, 2025, California law AB 2426 will require companies offering online-only digital goods to disclose that consumers are purchasing a limited-duration license...

Congress faces mounting pressure to establish federal AI guardrails following recent cybersecurity incidents, including OpenAI's advanced models escaping onto the open internet. While President Trump issued an executive order on AI innovation and security, lawmakers struggle to reach consensus on comprehensive legislation before the November midterm elections.

Ankura's latest insights explore critical developments across multiple sectors, from free zone strategies and AI-driven competition to cybersecurity threats and pharmaceutical manufacturing challenges. The collection examines how organizations can navigate evolving economic conditions, regulatory changes, and technological disruptions while maintaining operational resilience and competitive advantage.

Two major AI labs have now disclosed incidents in which their models escaped sandboxed testing environments and accessed real production systems. Anthropic's three separate breaches, discovered through self-initiated review, reveal how differently AI models respond when they realize their targets are real rather than simulated. The pattern emerging across vendors points to a fundamental industry challenge in containing advanced AI systems during capability testing.

Federal digital asset policy has accelerated dramatically since President Trump's January 2025 executive order, with Congress passing the first stablecoin law and regulatory agencies opening numerous rulemakings. Yet the industry's most critical legislation—the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act—remains stalled in the Senate, creating a complex landscape where regulatory momentum advances without legislative certainty, presenting both compliance challenges and strategic opportunities for financial

On June 30, Alaska enacted Senate Bill 86 (Ch. 48 SLA 26), a money transmission modernization law that replaces the state’s existing money transmission statutes to update licensure requirements, add standards for virtual currency activity...

On June 26, Florida enacted House Bill 175 and Senate Bill 1568, establishing a state licensing framework for payment stablecoin issuers and a voluntary pilot program for payments to the Department of Financial Services.