Welcome to this week’s edition of the TMT weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from across the technology, media and telecoms sectors. These highlights focus on key topics including new technologies, software, cloud computing, internet, outsourcing, music, film & television, publishing, defamation and telecoms.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the TMT weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from across the technology, media and telecoms sectors. These highlights focus on key topics including new technologies, software, cloud computing, internet, outsourcing, music, film & television, publishing, defamation and telecoms.

Public Law analysis: This article discusses the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the public sector, highlighting its role in improving administrative practices and policy-making across various domains such as social welfare, law enforcement, healthcare, and transportation. It addresses the legal and ethical challenges posed by AI, including concerns about human rights, privacy, accountability, and environmental impacts. The article examines the evolving regulatory frameworks in the EU and the UK, which aim to manage these challenges through risk-based regulation. It emphasises the need for public sector lawyers to understand these regulations and balance innovation with the protection of fundamental rights and transparency. Written by Erica Stanford, Crypto, digital asset and AI advisor at CMS.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the most recent sanctions updates, details of the new EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority, an update to the non-cooperative tax jurisdiction list and an analysis of the impact of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 for data protection lawyers.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses on the Court’s decision on the trade mark of ‘Vagisan’ stating that it is too close to 'Vagisil' and on the delay regarding the publication of the final version of the General Purpose AI Code of Practice. In addition this week, the Irish Data Protection Commission fined TikTok €530m for breaches against the EU General Data Protection Regulation regarding EEA user data transfers to China, the Commission opened a consultation on the evaluation of the Cosmetic Products Regulation and on revising the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation, published the May 2025 infringement package, published a roadmap to end Russian energy imports, published the new mandatory Manufacturer Incident Report under MDR/IVDR and MedTech Europe published a paper to support effective implementation of the MDR/IVDR ahead of the reform.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the TMT weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from across the technology, media and telecoms sectors. These highlights focus on key topics including new technologies, software, cloud computing, internet, outsourcing, music, film & television, publishing, defamation and telecoms.

This week's edition of Energy weekly highlights includes: A News Analysis on the potential implications of the UK’s withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) ‘s consultations on reform to the energy code and the review of electricity market arrangements (REMA) and its commitment to support the construction of new power stations as part of REMA. This week’s highlights also include DESNZ’s publishing of the government response to its consultation on the introduction of a Contracts for Difference (CfD) Sustainable Industry Reward (SIR) along with the draft CfD SIR Allocation Framework and draft guidance.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, details of the SRA’s 2025 AML and sanctions data collection exercise, the ICO’s consultation on draft updated guidance on encryption, publication of the Software Security Code of Practice, legislation to strengthen whistleblowing implementation and enforcement and the SRA’s consultation on its 2025/26 business plan.

This new starter guide provides an introduction to the Life Sciences practice area, the legislative and regulatory framework which governs the life sciences sector and the types of work that life sciences lawyers do. It is aimed at trainee solicitors and those who are new to life sciences as a sector. It covers: • An introduction to the life sciences sector • Life sciences glossary • What do life sciences lawyers do? • Key topics in life sciences • Q&As • Further reading materials • Key external links for life sciences lawyers This guide is intended to help you make the most of the Lexis®+ UK life sciences materials by explaining how to find them, sign up for daily and weekly news alerts, access Q&As and submit a query to the LexisAsk team. Where something is not covered by this basic guide, you can use the Topics tab or Topics dropdown menu to browse further practice area content. Those who are new to life sciences are also likely to find the Overviews

Welcome to this week’s edition of the TMT weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from across the technology, media and telecoms sectors. These highlights focus on key topics including new technologies, software, cloud computing, internet, outsourcing, music, film & television, publishing, defamation and telecoms.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: an analysis on what legal teams need to know about AI standards and the main identified challenges of EU AI Act-GDPR interplay, the latest sanctions news, approval of AML guidance for the legal sector by HMT and new guidance on corporate self-reporting and DPAs by the SFO.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses of the EU’s cookie-banner overhaul stalling amid competing interests and EU guidance laying out cost adjustments for carbon levy. In addition this week, the European Commission opened feedback on the proposed omnibus simplification of energy-efficient product legislation, outlined Digital Europe Programme-funded projects on data sharing and regulatory compliance, and published EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism guidance on verification and accreditation requirements and updated guidance on digital batteries passport preparations.