Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Stateful AI: What to Remember in the Shift to AI That Remembers

Mia Rendar and Austin Chegini — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:02:19 +0000

Providers have recently moved towards enabling AI agents to maintain persistent context and memory across interactions rather than treating each request as an isolated event. The environment makes it easier for enterprise AI systems to be designed to remember data and materials input and output from the tool.

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Emerging Compliance Expectations for Email-Tracking Technology

Pillsbury's Internet & Social Media Team — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:36:05 +0000

The use of email-tracking technology is drawing heightened regulatory scrutiny and has become a growing target of litigation. For many organizations, these technologies, which could be in the form of a “pixel,” “beacon” or URL tracking parameters embedded in links, sit quietly in the background of marketing and operational messages. Yet from a legal and compliance perspective, they raise the same kinds of questions as online tracking tools such as cookies.

In Email-Tracking Technology: Emerging Compliance Expectations in the U.S., EU and Beyond, colleagues Scott Morton, Shruti Bhutani Arora, Steven Farmer, Christine Mastromonaco and Samson Verebes explain what is happening and why it matters, while offering some pragmatic options for organizations to consider when relying on email engagement data.

London Robotaxis, Inclusive Technologies for Deaf Athletes and a 100 MW Data Center in India — News of Note for the Internet-Minded (3/4/26)

Pillsbury's Internet & Social Media Team — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:00:16 +0000

In this week’s News of Note, Nvidia plans rollout of AI-powered laptop chips, ASML’s EUV breakthrough promises a surge in chip production, and increasing threats from polymorphic malware force shift in cybersecurity strategies. Elsewhere, Acme Weather offers alternate weather predictions for greater accuracy.

Nvidia makes a comeback to the consumer PC market with AI-focused laptop chips. (MSN, Hillary Remy)
New app, Acme Weather, uses prediction models and multiple data sources to give a more nuanced and informative weather forecast. (TechCrunch, Sarah Perez)
Tata Group partners with OpenAI on landmark AI data center in India. (Business Standard, Shivani Shinde)
ASML’s EUV light source innovation is poised to significantly boost chip production by 2030. (Reuters, Stephen Nellis)
Self-driving robotaxis are debuting in London in the spring. (AP News, Kelvin Chan)
Inclusive technologies tested at Deaflympics in Tokyo. (BBC Technology, Paul Carter)
Constantly evolving threats from polymorphic malware reshape cybersecurity strategies. (Forbes, Chuck Brooks)

FTC Issues COPPA Policy Statement to Encourage Age Verification Technologies

Shruti Bhutani Arora and Scott Morton — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:51:16 +0000

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a significant policy statement announcing that it will not bring enforcement actions under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) against certain website and online service operators that collect, use, and disclose personal information solely for the purpose of determining a user’s age via age verification technologies.

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The Next Thing Knocking at Real Estate’s Door: Quantum Computing

Jessica H. Lee, David L. Miller and Katie Bumpers — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:38:41 +0000

The world has not yet fully explored the potential of artificial intelligence (AI), and yet another major technological wave is already forming on the horizon: quantum computing. While the transition from acknowledged potential to established, practical application of new quantum technologies remains underway, stakeholders in the real estate industry may soon see growing demand for specialized facilities designed to support quantum research, development and operations.

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Beyond Irises and Fingerprints: The Expanding Boundaries of Biometrics

Daniel C. Wood and Carolyn S. Toto — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:37:32 +0000

You scan your face to unlock your smartphone. You use your fingerprint to unlock the password manager on your laptop. You scan your face once again as part of a double authentication process to access your company’s VPN server. Biometric security measures that a few decades ago would have only been featured in spy novels and action films as evidence of futuristic high-tech security systems are now a ubiquitous staple of daily life.

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From a Thousand Flowers to Nipping It in the Bud: What J&J Teaches Us About Evaluating AI Use Cases

Mia Rendar — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:01:11 +0000

“Let a thousand flowers bloom” used to be Johnson & Johnson’s strategy to generative AI innovation. In short order, nearly 900 projects sprouted across the company.

But subsequent internal review revealed that only 10–15% of those projects produced 80% of the value. In response, J&J pivoted. It narrowed its focus to high-impact use cases, and scrapped the rest. These remaining efforts were tightly aligned with business strategy, execution quality and adoption.

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Quantum‑as‑a‑Service: Contracting for the Next Wave of Cloud Computing

Andrew Caplan and Sam Reno — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:27:51 +0000

Quantum-as-a-Service (QaaS) has moved from lab curiosity to real-world adoption. The inflection point isn’t that enterprises will own quantum computers anytime soon; it’s that usable quantum capacity is becoming accessible through cloud platforms, and leading firms are reporting production-adjacent use cases in real workflows.

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Digital Omnibus: European Commission Seeks Evidence to Streamline EU Digital Rules

Scott Morton, Sahar J. Hafeez, Steven Farmer and Mark Booth — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:50:11 +0000

On September 16, 2025, the European Commission opened a call for evidence to inform a forthcoming “Digital Omnibus” aimed at simplifying and reducing administrative burden across the EU’s data, cybersecurity and AI regulatory frameworks. The initiative sits within the Commission’s simplification agenda and its headline target to cut administrative burden by at least 25% overall (35% for SMEs).

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The EU Data Act: Scope, Obligations and Enforcement

Steven Farmer, Lee Rubin, Scott Morton, Mark Booth and Johanna Lipponen — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:00:23 +0000

Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (the Data Act) entered into force on January 11, 2024, and applied from September 12, 2025, with certain provisions phased in through 2026 and 2027. The Data Act is intended to create a harmonized framework for fair access to and use of data across the EU, supplementing the GDPR and sector-specific rules. The Data Act also includes specific requirements on providers of a “data processing service” to enable customers to switch to another provider (or to an on-premise solution)—this is likely to have a significant impact on the global cloud market.

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