Topic: Regulation

On 16 June 2026, the UK government announced the new “National Quantum Standards Network”, a world-first national framework for quantum standards to coordinate standards for quantum technologies.

Norton Rose Fulbright has been closely monitoring a growing body of decisions released in 2026, that address whether GenAI prompts and outputs are entitled to privilege protections.

On June 1, 2026, the Florida Office of the Attorney General, State of Florida and the Florida Department of Legal Affairs, sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of ignoring safety warnings and releasing ChatGPT while knowing it was harmful to users.

The EU Commission recently published draft guidelines for the high-risk AI provisions under the EU AI Act. These provide examples of use cases that fall under the AI system’s stringent rules for high-risk AI systems, and those that do not.

A Pennsylvania state board has filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against the company behind Character.AI, alleging that an artificial intelligence chatbot's claims of psychiatric credentials and a Pennsylvania medical license constitute the unlicensed practice of medicine.

Colorado just rewrote its own AI regulation, affecting every company developing or deploying AI in a way that may touch a Colorado resident.

Colorado's landmark AI act is officially on ice, and the legal fight behind that development is shaping the national conversation on AI regulation.

Dubai Law No. 5/2026 on the Regulation of the Outsourcing of Government Services creates an outsourcing framework for public services that will be familiar to those operating in the financial services sector. Here we explore how the new law compares to financial services sector outsourcing regimes, which elements are novel or enhance existing public procurement requirements, and what service providers to Dubai government entities should prepare themselves for.

The revised Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation and accompanying guidelines will enter into force on 1 May 2026.

Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers authored and edited key chapters in Digital Health 2026, covering artificial intelligence, the bio industrial technology stack and emerging technologies.