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Insuring the unpredictable: The challenges of AI risk insurability

/ / Artificial Intelligence, Consumers, Fintech, General, IP, IT & Sourcing

By Giacomo Lusardi, Karin Tayel and Andrea Olivieri AI is all around us and it’s here to stay AI is rapidly permeating various economic sectors. From financial services and insurance to life sciences and encompassing industries as diverse as retail, industrials, real estate, media and sports. AI is reshaping traditional paradigms and marking a shift […]

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Italy’s AI Strategy for 2024-2026: The Key Points

/ / Artificial Intelligence

by Giacomo Lusardi and Alessandra Faranda The government’s vision of AI: a strategy and a bill In the past few days, an executive summary prepared by AgiD (Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale) and the Department for Digital Transformation was made available on the web. It summarizes the vision and architecture of Italy’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the

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Milan Fashion Week and Fashion Law Trends: E-textile and Smart Clothing – How Your Clothes Can Improve Your Life

/ / Artificial Intelligence, Consumers, Data Protection, Fashion

As we already discovered during pandemic, technology has been an effective way out for fashion brands to advertise and sell products in a historical period that has limited the shopping physical experience. In fact, innovative technology within the fashion industry is more apparent than ever. From updating retail experiences, to wearable technology like smartwatches and

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Liability in the digital and AI age: EU looks beyond the ‘AI act’

/ / Artificial Intelligence

Following its April 2021 proposal for a European Artificial Intelligence Regulation, the Commission comes back to the topic of liability for damages in the digital age with a consultation open to the public until January 10, 2022. The purpose of the consultation Having launched the first part of the public consultation on October 18, 2021,

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Agriculture 4.0 and data sharing: what’s up?

/ / Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Commercial, Intellectual Property, Internet of Things, IP

As technology and innovation are nowadays central to all economic activities, also the most ancient one, agriculture, is opening its doors to let the digital transformation come through. Some refer to this phenomenon as to Agriculture 4.0, while others prefer the definitions of Ag-tech or Digital Agriculture. What is sure, is that the big revolution

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Top 3 legal predictions on Copyright for 2020

/ / Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Intellectual Property, IP

By Roberto Valenti, Alessandra Tozzi and Lara Mastrangelo Copyright plays a paramount role in enhancing and protecting human creations, but, at the same time, it may clash with other fundamental rights and therefore needs to be balanced. During 2019 many events occurred in the copyright field. What will happen in the course of 2020? Art

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Top 3 Legal Predictions on Privacy and Data Protection for 2020

/ / Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection, Intellectual Property, Internet & E-commerce, Internet of Things, IT & Sourcing

by Giulia Zappaterra & Deborah Paracchini  2019 brought considerable changes in the data protection world. Some EU Member States finally integrated the rules of the EU General Data Protection Regulation No. 679/2016 (GDPR) with their national laws. At the same time, local data protection authorities started to fully apply – also issuing severe sanctions –

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Milan Fashion Week and Fashion Law Trends – Wearable and Smart Clothing: The Next Frontier of Fashion

/ / Artificial Intelligence, Consumers, Data Protection, Fashion, Internet of Things

As we already discovered in some of our previous articles on tech & fashion, innovative technology within the fashion industry is more apparent than ever. From updating retail experiences, to wearable technology like smartwatches, technology and innovation are continuously inspiring and influencing trends and fashions. In fact, as Marty McFly introduced smart clothing that could

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Milan Fashion Week and Fashion Law Trends – Can Artificial Intelligence create a style? The relationship between fashion and technology

/ / Artificial Intelligence, Consumers, Copyright, Data Protection, Fashion, Intellectual Property, Internet & E-commerce, Internet of Things, IP

As we already discovered in some of our previous articles, from 3D avatars to wardrobe advisers, passing through CGI and Robot IT girls, artificial intelligence (“AI”) is shaping our outfits and looks.

Indeed, AI is transforming the fashion industry in every element of its value chain and marketplace. In last years, all retail giants are using AI to improve the efficiency of sales systems and processes and to enhance clients’ shopping experience, offering a personalized service tailored on their interests and preferences.

Most of the biggest fashion houses – from H&M to Tommy Hilfiger – are now investing in algorithms that suggest styles to their customers.

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FinTech: Who is responsible if AI makes mistakes when suggesting investments?

/ / Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Commercial, Consumers, Data Protection, Fintech, Internet & E-commerce, Internet of Things, IP, IT & Sourcing, Tech & Sourcing

The recently reported legal action brought for damages due to wrong investments resulting from algorithms-based automated decision-making processes is one of the first known cases of this type. The case has received some attention from the media worldwide and has contributed to reopen the debate on the issue of liability connected to the use of Artificial Intelligence systems (“AI”). The question at issue is, in brief: who is held liable for the damages caused by AI and who shall compensate such damages, if any.

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Milan Fashion Week and Fashion Law Trends – Lil Miquela, Shudu, Bermuda and Sophia The Robot: CGI and Robot IT Girls Who Will Become the Influencers of the Future

/ / Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Fashion, Intellectual Property

There is a new crop of influencersin town and – read carefully – they are not real people.

Virtual influencers – influencers who are not human, but rather are CGI creations or robots – are the latest trend on social media. CGI stands for “computer-generated imagery” and it is a technology that creates pictures through the use of computers, now applied to create the new trend of virtual – but realistic – Instagram influencers and models.

In particular, the top 4 leading the group are Miquela Sousa, Bermuda, Shudu and Sophia the Robot.

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Top 3 predictions for life sciences in 2019

/ / Artificial Intelligence, General, Life Science

The Life Sciences industry operates in one of the fastest and most innovation-driven environments. 2018 has witnessed significant developments in technology and therapeutic practices. A number of new cell and gene therapies – including the first two CAR-T therapies for cancer – received EU approval, and both disruptive and ‘new mainstream’ technologies (such as AI) made significant steps forward into the sector.

The pharmaceutical and medical device sectors are also among the most heavily regulated. Life Sciences companies face significant challenges in managing regulatory compliance in an environment where regulation constantly evolves. Moreover, the sector moves so fast that it is hard for regulation to keep up with the pace of technological development.

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Artificial intelligence and fashion: between innovation and creativity

/ / Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Data Protection, Fashion, Intellectual Property, Internet & E-commerce, IP

At the beginning of the year, in our fashion predictions we put artificial intelligence (“AI”) at the top of the fashion agenda and ‒ yes, no magic sphere needed! ‒ we were actually right.

Technology has had a huge impact on the fashion industry and in the last year all the retail giants took an algorithmic approach to fashion. After Amazon’s Echo Look app which gives feedback or recommendations on your outfits and Zara’s interactive fitting rooms, with mirrors recognizing the clothes that you are wearing and suggesting others to match them based on style, color and mood, also Yoox explored the potential of AI.

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New guidelines for EU Financial Institutions moving to Cloud Computing

/ / Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Commercial, Consumers, Data Protection, General, Internet & E-commerce, Internet of Things, IP, IT & Sourcing, Tech & Sourcing, Telecoms

Prompted by the increasing interest for the use of cloud outsourcing solutions within the banking industry, the European Banking Authority (“EBA“) has recently issued the final recommendations on the use of cloud service providers by financial institutions (“Recommendations“), which will be applicable as of 1 July 2018.

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