Everyone is talking about ChatGPT and AI generally. It has come close to passing the multiple-choice part of the US bar exam and has earned passing grades on law school essays that resemble ones written for the exam. Microsoft has invested billions and has added it to its search engine, Bing, in the hope that it will catch up ground lost to Google. As AI becomes [...]
Since April 2016 companies in the UK have had to identify their owners and controllers. Those details have formed part of a publicly-available register held by Companies House. Ownership registers such as this have been introduced internationally in recent years. This is as part of a move towards increasing corporate transparency to combat money laundering, the financing of terrorism and tax evasion. The Court of Justice [...]
The UK data reform Bill was postponed upon the appointment of Liz Truss as the new Prime Minister. Now, it appears that Bill is on hold. The new Secretary of State for DCMS, Michelle Donelan appears to want to take data reform in a new direction. Reform of the data reform, if you like. She has promised "the design of a tailored, business-friendly British system of [...]
Like many businesses, Starbucks closed its outlets in Russia. Now, a new chain owned by Russian rapper Timati and restaurateur Anton Pinsky is taking over the outlets. It has appointed new suppliers but much seems familiar. The new chain has dropped the "bucks" from the name. It has also adjusted the logo to show a woman wearing traditional Russian headgear. Pinsky said, [...]
IQE has filed a lawsuit against Tower for misappropriating its trade secrets. There are not many details in the public domain yet and reading anything in the general media can lead to confusion as journalists often think all words describing intellectual property rights are interchangeable! What we know is that IQE, one of the UK’s largest chip manufacturers, has filed [...]
