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Oct 15
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Microsoft launches Copilot for Legal

Microsoft added more than 20 legal skills to Word, along with plugins from legal technology partners including Harvey and Legora.

Oct 5
2026 AI-powered attacks
AI-powered attacks

OpenAI begins watermarking its models’ text output

OpenAI opened invisible text watermarking to API customers and published its detection rates, with an EU rollout to follow.

Oct 1
2026 Policy
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arXiv rate-limits authors over AI-written papers

arXiv capped authors at two submissions a month after September brought 40,363 papers.

Sep 30
2026 Policy
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Judge dismisses publishers’ AI Overviews antitrust suits

A US federal judge dismissed antitrust suits by Penske Media and Chegg over Google's AI Overviews, without prejudice.

Sep 29
2026 Policy
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Appeals court treats AI training licences as a market

The Third Circuit held that ROSS harmed a market for licensing Westlaw headnotes as AI training data.

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Americas United States Build fast, regulate lightly at federal level, and push one national rulebook that overrides… 495 developments Europe European Union One binding rulebook, trimmed in 2026, plus heavy public spending on compute and on… 48 developments Europe United Kingdom Pro-growth and pro-adoption: no AI Act, regulation through existing sector regulators, and a safety… 47 developments Asia-Pacific China State-led: put AI into every sector, release open-weight models, build its own chips, and… 45 developments Asia-Pacific South Korea Pushing to become a top-three AI power, with state-backed sovereign models and compute alongside… 15 developments Europe Germany Industrial AI over consumer chatbots: build sovereign compute, and enforce the AI Act with… 14 developments

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