The new Cyber Security Bill 2024 (“Bill“) was tabled for first reading at the Malaysian Parliament on 25 March 2024. The Bill aims to provide a regulatory framework for the safeguarding of Malaysia’s cyber security landscape by requiring national critical information infrastructure entities to comply with certain measures, standards and processes in the management of

Proposed licensing of social media and internet messaging services providers and a new draft bill on digital safety – these are some of the recent updates in the online content space for Malaysia.

On 15 December 2023, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)  reported that there was a significant increase in harmful content on

It would be an understatement to say that generative AI is taking the business world by storm. Companies are racing to find ways to integrate AI into their daily processes, and software companies are no exception. Generative AI has demonstrated a high level of compatibility with day to day software development tasks, especially those processes

On February 13, 2024, the USPTO issued new guidance regarding the patentability of inventions created with the assistance of AI. Issued in response to the “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” released by President Biden on October 30, 2023, this guidance has been highly anticipated, in view

The EU AI Act was adopted by the European Parliament today and is expected to enter into force within a few months, with its first substantive provisions taking effect before the end of 2024.

The EU AI Act applies across the AI lifecycle – from developers to deployers of AI technologies – and organisations across

Key Considerations in Negotiating Transition Services Agreements

Blackrock’s recently released 2024 Private Markets Outlook predicts that corporate carve-out activity will increase in 2024, as companies look to divest non-core or underperforming business lines and acquirers look to benefit from untapped value-creation potential. Those companies that will either acquire or sell through carve-out transactions in the

On February 28, President Biden issued Executive Order 14117 (the EO) directing the US Attorney General and other agencies to promulgate regulations that restrict and, in some cases, prohibit transactions that might involve the sharing of sensitive personal data and government-related data with “countries of concern” (currently China, including Hong Kong and Macau, Russia, Iran,

In the past year, news coverage on generative artificial intelligence has dominated headlines. Generative AI offers dominant functionality and opportunities to leverage incredibly powerful algorithms to make new content.

One area that business leaders and research and development teams may think to use generative AI is in the realm of new inventions. However, while generative