On 18 March 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously ruled that creations generated solely by artificial intelligence are not eligible for copyright protection, reinforcing that copyright law presupposes a human creator. The decision came in a case brought by computer scientist Stephen Thaler,
The Court of Justice of the European Union's ruling of 27 February 2025 in case C-203/22 declared that data subjects are entitled to receive an understandable explanation about the logic behind automated credit assessment decisions. The case originated from a dispute between CK and Dun & Bradstreet
The first comprehensive legal artificial intelligence benchmarking study, published by Vals AI on 27th February 2025, revealed significant differences amongst leading legal AI tools, with Harvey and Thomson Reuters CoCounsel achieving outstanding results across seven critical legal tasks. The study compared four AI tools—Harvey, CoCounsel, Vincent AI (vLex) and
The United States Copyright Office issued a landmark statement on copyright protection for works created with artificial intelligence in January 2025. After processing 10,000 professional observations, the office concluded that AI-assisted creations may enjoy legal protection provided they contain a sufficient degree of human creativity, whilst purely AI-generated works
The European Union launched the EuroStack initiative on 13th February 2025, offering a comprehensive €300 billion strategy to establish Europe's digital independence over the next decade. The plan addresses the critical situation in which more than 80% of Europe's digital infrastructure and technologies come from imports,
The European Commission announced on February 11, 2025, the withdrawal of three significant technology regulation proposals, including those on standard essential patents (SEP), artificial intelligence liability, and consumer data protection. Behind the decision are disagreements between EU member states and legislators, as well as intensive industry lobbying. Among the withdrawn
Thomson Reuters achieved a significant victory in a landmark copyright lawsuit on February 11, 2025, when the Delaware District Court rejected ROSS Intelligence's defense in the case of unauthorized AI data use. The lawsuit, initiated in 2020, centered on whether ROSS Intelligence legally used content from Thomson Reuters&
