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My colleagues Varun Ramdas, Dhruv Shekhar and Ateesh Nandi and I, mapped out some trends one can expect to impact tech companies in the year ahead. Have a read!

📰 #MediaFeature The new coalition government will maintain the pace of technology policy-making, including the DPDP Act, Telecom Act, Digital India Bill, and AI regulations. Officials and experts believe key digital policies will continue smoothly. Kamesh Shekar (Senior Programme Manager - Privacy, Data Governance and AI), in conversation with Financial Express (India), highlights that prioritizing key digital policies, such as the DPDP rules, should be a focus for the new government to establish a privacy-first culture, ensuring a consultative process with stakeholder contributions. ➡ 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://lnkd.in/gurArGSr #DPDPA #DPDPact #AI #artificialintelligence #Telecomact #DIB #Digitalindia #AIregulations #digitaldata #elections2024

AI's rise presents both opportunities and challenges for intellectual property (IP) policy. The USPTO aims to understand how AI affects what qualifies as prior art, the knowledge of a person skilled in the art (PHOSITA), and patentability determinations. Link: https://lnkd.in/dTVjzWNP #AI #USPTO #Patentability #Priorart

The year 2024 has prompted state IT leaders to reconsider their strategies for digital services. The main insight? Although technology progresses quickly, governments must prioritize secure, accessible, and user-friendly solutions. At PayIt, we collaborate with agencies facing these challenges, assisting them in developing digital services that are efficient and considerate of residents’ needs. This article explores five significant IT developments of 2024. It's evident that these issues will influence digital government in 2025 as well. Read more here: https://okt.to/GOBQod #StateIT #GovTech #PublicSector

I'll be taking part in the #quantumcomputing and Enterprise #ai tracks during this year's virtual Six Five Summit: AI Unleashed. Click the link to register or sponsor. For #quantumcomputing, I'm especially looking to get a range of hardware and software companies who can give us an update on their status and plans, and how they view their tech applying to or using AI. The Futurum Group

Is the US Patent Office helping or hindering AI innovation? President Biden's Executive Order on AI includes section 5.2 for "Promoting Innovation," which includes, in subsection (c)(ii), having the USPTO Director provide "updated guidance on patent eligibility to address innovation in AI and critical and emerging technologies." So, how did "patent eligibility" become important enough to include in an Executive Order of the President? It turns out that many inventions in software and AI are denied patentability because they are deemed "abstract ideas" by US patent examiners. As specified by the Executive Order, the USPTO issued updated guidance and examples on patent eligibility on July 16, 2024, and also requested public comments. Working with my colleague Priya Adlakha, Esq. from Berkeley Law, I submitted a set of comments. See https://lnkd.in/g8-8wC7Y. The key takeaway is that there is more work to do to support AI innovation, and we pointed out some specific ways to do that. Other countries, such as China, appear to provide greater support for AI innovation than the United States. AI is the future, so let's promote AI innovation using the US patent system.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve refreshed our Trackers product! 🎉 We’ve overhauled each of the 11 Trackers to create a set of 50+ #benchmarks that include more than 10,000 #data points. 🤖 As part of our review, we’ve launched a new #AI Tracker that benchmarks emerging frameworks for regulating and governing artificial intelligence, as well as competition investigations into those companies operating in this space. We’ve added 8 new benchmarks within existing Trackers: 1️⃣ Social tariffs (in the Consumer Protection Tracker) 2️⃣ In-contract price rises (in the Consumer Protection Tracker) 3️⃣ Copper retirement (in the Fixed Telecoms Tracker) 4️⃣ 2G/3G switch-off (in the Mobile Telecoms Tracker) 5️⃣ Online safety regulation (in the Platforms and Big Tech Tracker) 6️⃣ Digital markets regulation (in the Platforms and Big Tech Tracker) 7️⃣ DMA and DSA implementation (in the Platforms and Big Tech Tracker) 8️⃣ RF-EMF health and safety rules (in the Spectrum Tracker) We’ve also improved functionality of the Trackers: 🔎 Filter, group, sort and search information as required 🌍 Full indexing of each Tracker, including countries and companies covered to help you navigate the contents 👨💻 Pre-formatted downloads (XLSX format) so you can use the information in your own work 📜 Archiving of older content in PDF format so you know that you're always looking at the most recent content 📩 Regular email alerts when we make updates to the Trackers so you're aware of the changes we make If you’re not currently a client but would be interested in getting access to our research, please get in touch. https://lnkd.in/eWkUNpMN

Professor Anu Bradford offers a thought-provoking take on the relationship between digital regulation and innovation. The author challenges the idea that stricter rules, like the GDPR, automatically stifle innovation or that the US tech sector thrives simply because of a lack of regulation. Instead, the paper highlights deeper factors behind the EU-US tech gap: fragmented markets, limited access to capital, and inconsistent policies across member states. The author argues that abandoning digital regulations won’t close this gap but fixing these structural issues might. On the US side, the success of tech giants like Google is credited to thriving capital markets, entrepreneurial risk-taking, and a unified market—not just a light regulatory touch. The author even suggests that stronger privacy laws or platform accountability measures wouldn’t harm US innovation but could enhance trust and fairness in the digital economy. It’s a compelling argument: instead of focusing solely on the amount of regulation, maybe the real question is what kind of innovation we want to foster.

Thank you, CSA, for addressing such a profound and important subject in business. Navigating and collaborating with government entities is crucial for advancing business practices and laws. This partnership not only drives progress but also fosters innovation, particularly in my field of technology, and now featuring #AI. Together, we can lead the way to a future where technology and policy work hand in hand for the betterment of society. #generativeAI #WinWire One more credential!