On Jan. 14, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) jointly released the “Guiding Principles of Good AI Practice in Drug Development,” a set of 10 high-level principles intended to steer the safe and responsible use of AI across the product lifecycle. While not formal industry guidance, the

In a significant step toward strengthening consumer privacy protections, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) board adopted a comprehensive set of updates to the California Consumer Privacy Act regulations. These long-anticipated regulations — covering cybersecurity audits, risk assessments and automated decision-making technology — mark a pivotal shift in the state’s data privacy enforcement landscape. CPPA

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced on Jan. 24, 2025, that its highly anticipated one-to-one consent rule was postponed by at least one year. This is big news for companies that were gearing up for the implementation of the rule, which would have significantly altered the requirements for obtaining consent to place calls or text