Like Company v. Google Ireland Limited: A Closer Look
Introduction: On 3 April 2025, the Budapest Környéki Törvényszék (Budapest Regional Court) referred a request for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) pursuant to Article 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The request was made in the context of proceedings between Like […]
VARA 2.0, Tokenisation and the Future of Digital Assets: A Closer Look
The Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), established in 2022 under Law No. (4) of 2022 Regulating Virtual Assets in Dubai, serves as the dedicated regulator for virtual assets across the Emirate of Dubai. Operating as an affiliate of the Dubai World Trade Centre Authority, VARA is mandated to regulate, supervise, and oversee all Virtual Asset […]
Is Secondary Use of Patient Data Permitted in the UAE? A Comparative Study
The secondary use of patient data refers to the use of health-related data for purposes other than the original intent for which it was collected (typically clinical care). In this tech-driven era where data is the backbone of many industries, the health records, data and other information gathered during patient care is proving valuable far […]
Close, But No Cigar: International Law Firms and the Indian Legal Market
Introduction: Global Law Firms and The Indian Market Global law firms have long desired access to the Indian legal market, but the central barrier to their setting up in India has historically been the Advocates Act, 1961, which limits the “practice of law” to Indian citizens who hold law degrees from recognized Indian universities. This […]
Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI: A Closer Look
OpenAI, on May 5, 2025, has abandoned its December 2024 decision to transition into a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), instead restructuring its for-profit arm into a PBC under nonprofit control. This pivot follows intense scrutiny from regulators and stakeholders, including co-founder Elon Musk, whose August 2024 lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman accuses […]
OpenAI Enters Social Media: A Closer Look
In 2025, an unexpected player is stepping into the world of social media – OpenAI. The company is reportedly prototyping a new social feed tied to its image generator, as part of a broader move to scale multimodal AI by doing what competitors like Meta and X have already been doing for a while now. […]
The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Closer Look
In April 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a bipartisan effort to curb the growing threat of AI-generated deepfake pornography. Officially, the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, it’s poised to reshape how the U.S. tackles nonconsensual intimate visual depictions (NCII). […]
The Claude + Workspace Integration: A Closer Look
Anthropic has introduced two new capabilities for their AI system Claude to make it a more capable collaborator – Research and Google Workspace integration. Research allows Claude to search across both internal work contexts and the web to generate responses and help users make more informed decisions, while the Google Workspace integration gives Claude access […]
Elon Musk Buys Twitter from Himself to Save It
On March 28, 2025, Elon Musk announced that his artificial intelligence venture, xAI, had acquired his social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), in an all-stock deal. The transaction values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, factoring in $12 billion of X’s debt. It’s a move that ties Musk’s AI aspirations to X’s […]
The Wrath of Khan: Technology, M&A and the Federal Trade Commission
Did Lina Khan, former firebrand chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), lose Silicon Valley for the Democrats in the last US presidential election? Did her hard-line approach so offend an industry accustomed to light touch regulation that it turned away from its traditional Democratic leanings and into the waiting arms of Donald Trump? The […]
