Intelligence

California has enacted seven unprecedented bills targeting data center development, imposing sweeping new requirements for energy reporting, water consumption assessments, labor standards, and electricity rate structures. These laws fundamentally reshape the regulatory landscape for data centers, requiring detailed disclosures at multiple project stages while prohibiting categorical CEQA exemptions and establishing new interconnection rules that shift infrastructure costs directly to developers.

As ICANN prepares to launch hundreds of new domain extensions in 2026, companies face escalating cyber risks from domain-based attacks amplified by artificial intelligence. This comprehensive analysis examines how weak domain security enables costly fraud, business interruption, and brand impersonation, while providing actionable controls and contractual strategies to protect against the coming wave of exposure.

The FCA has ended its grace period for Consumer Duty compliance and is now actively using supervisory and enforcement powers to ensure firms deliver good consumer outcomes. With 11 open investigations spanning insurance, pensions, wealth management, and other sectors, plus 382 supervisory interventions in the last financial year, regulators are scrutinizing whether firms have truly embedded Consumer Duty frameworks into their operations. Fair value assessments, vulnerability support, and outcomes monitoring

The National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare has published comprehensive recommendations that are expected to shape the future regulatory framework for AI technologies in UK healthcare. These recommendations address the safe adoption of AI across diagnostics, medical research, and clinical decision-making while establishing safeguards to maintain public confidence. The report introduces a lifecycle approach to regulation, emphasizing ongoing monitoring rather than just initial approval, a

The European Commission has proposed the EU KIDS Act, a comprehensive regulation that extends far beyond a simple social media ban for under-13s. This ambitious framework introduces tiered age-based restrictions, safety-by-design obligations across digital services including AI chatbots and online games, and mandatory certified age-verification systems. With potential fines reaching 6% of global turnover and enforcement mechanisms piggybacking on existing DSA machinery, organisations offering digital servic

The Supreme Court of India has delivered a landmark ruling in a redevelopment dispute, firmly establishing that Permanent Alternate Accommodation Agreements executed under the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act are statutory instruments, not mere private contracts. This decision addresses critical questions about developer obligations, occupant rights, and regulatory authority when redevelopment projects fail to honor commitments made to original tenants.