This article Sonal Makhija, an AI & data compliance lead at the H&M Group, where she has led the AI Act implementation. It explores the kind of legal ambiguity that small and medium enterprises face when navigating the AI Act and the resulting need for greater clarity and practical guidance. It also discusses how AI governance risks arising out of everyday AI use cases, which typically fall within limited to low-risk classifications under the AI Act, but pose significant secu

What a year this has been for AI! While the rest of the world is just trying to keep up with the pace of innovation and growing reliance on AI, the Ethics and Culture Office for Women in AI has been busy with community engagement, launching our Global Expert Series, and working to promote the Global voice of @WomeninAI. 

AEQUITAS has launched a new educational tutorial video series designed to make artificial intelligence more accessible, transparent, and understandable to everyone, not just technical experts.

As AI agents become more capable — reasoning, collaborating, adapting, and acting independently — the questions of evaluation, safety, governance, and trust become even more urgent. To help shape this global conversation, we’ve highlighted a few key insights from the World Economic Forum white paper contributed to by Nebahat Arslan, our Global Head of Partnerships. These insights point to what responsible, inclusive AI must look like in the age of agentic systems.

This article is written by Dina Blikshteyn and Silvia A. Carretta, editors of WAI Legal Insights. We wish all our readers a happy, healthy, and successful New Year, and we look forward to continuing the conversation on artificial intelligence and law in 2026.

Jacodia Fransman will be talking about the Digital Divide in Namibia’s Higher Education ecosystem and how case studies from the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) demonstrated how integrating AI into curricula can be a transformative force for education in Namibia.

This article is written by Anny Ho. Anny  is an expert lawyer specializing in artificial intelligence, data protection, and privacy across global industries. She works at an innovative electric automotive company where she leads European data protection and global AI governance. In addition, Anny is a Board Member of the Data Protection Chapter at the Dutch Association of Company Lawyers.

The Community-Led AI Audit Guide, developed by the DIVERSIFAIR project, empowers communities and organisations to investigate AI systems

This Expert Series #7 explores the the intersectional bias in the “English-dominant” architecture of AI platforms and tools