This investment will enable AiCure to accelerate its leading-edge commercial, engineering, and research and development activities in order to advance its research-grade data insights for life science companies. The DLA Piper team representing AiCure was led by partner Jeff Lehrer (Washington, DC), who co-heads the firm’s Emerging Growth and Venture Capital practice, as well as associate Steve Ryan (Northern Virginia). DLA Piper’s Emerging Growth and Venture Capital practice includes more than 200 lawyers in the…

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By: Tony Samp and Steven R. Phillips A proposal intended to improve the use of AI across the federal government cleared an important legislative hurdle on November 6 as the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee approved the AI in Government Act of 2019 (S 1363). The measure, introduced earlier this year by Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) with bipartisan co-sponsorship, would create the AI Center of Excellence within the General Services Administration (GSA) to…

Achieving Digital Transformation and Securing Digital Assets By Margo H. K. Tank, Mark F. Radcliffe and Michael D Hamilton: To remain competitive, companies find themselves increasing their efforts to digitally transform their businesses by developing new offerings based on emerging technologies and integrating these technologies into existing product and service offerings.   This is our eighth monthly bulletin, aiming to help companies identify important and significant legal developments governing the use and acceptance…

An updated draft of China’s Amended Personal Information Security Specification (Amended PIS Specification) and proposed new amendments to the privacy specification for mobile apps (App Privacy Specification) were published this week, alongside brand new draft privacy regulations for the banking sector. These drafts will, if implemented, introduce some significant changes to current data protection practices in China. This is now the third draft of the Amended PIS Specification, but there still may be further changes before…

As breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and related technologies gallop forward at what feels like a frenzied pace, lawmakers in Congress and officials from a wide range of federal regulatory agencies are increasingly focused on enacting policies governing these disruptive innovations – seeking to seize the initiative while often being forced to play catch-up. President Trump announced the American AI Initiative, “a concerted effort to promote and protect national AI technology and innovation,” and in…

Achieving Digital Transformation and Securing Digital Assets By Margo H. K. Tank, David Whitaker, Andrew Grant and Liz Caires A fact of business today is that customers – both consumers and other businesses – and employees expect to transact digitally.  To remain competitive, companies find themselves increasing their efforts to digitally transform their businesses.   Successfully implementing this transformation requires careful planning to ensure regulatory compliance, a smooth integration with existing business technology and a…