51: Watching the machines

How English law may be ill equipped to deal with AI agent liability, and London’s High Court weights in on exactly when force majeure can apply

FIFA responds to a court ruling on player transfer rules; and how the heatwave is affecting digital infrastructure

UK regulator steps up vigilance on domestic device data collection, and UK e-money regulation to be tightened

We ask why Australia is making major changes to its foreign investment rules, and investigate a supply chain law change in China that could put international companies in a legal pickle.

We hear about the UK tax authority’s highly successful investigations into VAT not paid by medium and large companies, and examine the impact of new EU guidelines demanding transparency by companies developing and using AI.

We explore why governments and regulators are making greater cybersecurity demands than ever of energy companies. 

We explore the growing interest in the ‘sovereign cloud’ as governments try to keep their data out of other governments’ hands, and we hear how the UK tax authority’s bounty-sharing plans could be a big corporate tax evasion deterrent.

The US, EU and UK have finally made their positions clear on the balance between copyright holders’ interests and those of AI systems developers; and the UK will make the biggest changes to a financial consumer protection body in decades

As conflict spreads beyond Iran, the US and Israel in the Middle East we examine some of the immediate issues for businesses and assess what action can be taken now to reduce companies’ risks.

We hear about the fundamental principles laid out by the UN in the 1980s that could help steer governments through a crisis in children’s online safety.