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New Year, New Guidance: FDA Revisits Wellness and CDS Boundaries
35+ min ago (220+ words) In the newly updated guidance, FDA added language allowing products that measure blood pressure and blood glucose data to be considered general wellness in some cases. Specifically, per the updated guidance products that use "non-invasive sensing . . . to estimate, infer, or…...
Employers Turn to AI to Screen Candidates’ Social Media: Best Practices to Minimize Legal Threats
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (441+ words) Risks of Social Media Sweeps Like all tools, use of social media AI investigations tools comes with risks. Bias and False Inferences There is a real risk of bias and the creation of false inferences. False inferences can be caused…...
Healthy AI: 2025 Year in Review
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (206+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare may have reached an inflection point in 2025. After being defined by proofs of concept and isolated pilots for more than a decade, recent advances signal that AI is moving decisively into the operational core of…...
Managing Export Control Risks in the AI Chip Ecosystem
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (324+ words) This article summarizes recent policy developments and key enforcement actions in the AI ecosystem and describes compliance considerations, including tailored insights for cloud service providers, data center operators, and financial institutions. BIS regulates the export, reexport, and in-country transfer of…...
Crypto Payrolls: Opportunities and Compliance Considerations for Global Employers
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (175+ words) The Advantages of Crypto Compensation Crypto can be a powerful tool for forward-thinking employers with international or distributed teams: 2. Attracting and Retaining High-Caliber Talent 3. Reduced Operational Friction for Global Workforces The Risks and Challenges The downsides of a crypto-only payroll…...
SEC official envisions AI modernizing adviser-investor communications
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (340+ words) On February 3, SEC Director of the Division of Investment Management Brian Daly addressed how the division is considering the changes and opportunities AI affords investment advisers, investment companies, and investors. Daly stated that liability concerns continue to slow the adoption…...
FTC Resolves Another Case Involving “AI-washing”
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (242+ words) Our alert explores the key points from Growth Cave and what they mean for businesses making AI-related marketing claims. In December 2025, FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson stated that the agency has found "that, not infrequently, the representations those [AI] companies are…...
AI Trends for 2026 – Congress Signals Heightened Oversight of AI
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (83+ words) Controlling the Export of Advanced AI Chips to China Constructing Data Centers Across the Country to Power AI Development Synthetic Media and Risks to Children The DEFIANCE Act, which recently passed the Senate, would create a federal civil remedy for…...
FINRA Highlights Supervisory Risks and Use Cases for Agentic AI in Financial Services
2+ hour, 39+ min ago (138+ words) On January 27, FINRA released a discussion of agentic AI, describing how member firms are beginning to experiment with autonomous AI systems and identifying supervisory considerations associated with those early deployments....By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP On January 27, FINRA released…...
Risk, Reputation, and Readiness: How Automation is Quietly Fortifying Legal Resilience
2+ hour, 41+ min ago (374+ words) For many corporate legal teams, the job is no longer about case management alone. Today, the stakes are higher: one overlooked deadline, one inconsistent response, and it's not just legal penalties at risk'an entire organization's reputation can be shaken. More…...