Newsroom
Updated 23 July 2026
A running record of what changes in AI regulation, and in the Inferis platform, for law, tax and accounting firms. Maintained by the Inferis team. Newest first.
23 Jul 2026
Regulation
The EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency obligations apply from 2 August 2026. They require anyone deploying a general-purpose AI system to disclose that content is AI-generated or AI-assisted. Most small and mid-sized professional firms have no plan in place for it.
Sidley Data Matters8 Jul 2026
Regulation
The European Data Protection Board adopted guidelines stating that GDPR governs web scraping whenever personal data is involved, and that public visibility online is not consent. Open for public consultation until 30 October 2026.
EDPB7 Jul 2026
Product
New development ships to the EU first. Documents, queries and model inference for EU firms stay in Frankfurt and Belgium.
3 Jul 2026
Product
Inferis moves its EU query pipeline onto Mistral, a French, EU-based model provider, as part of a broader sovereignty push. A Vertex AI fallback remains in place.
29 Jun 2026
Regulation
Parliament and Council finalised amendments deferring obligations for high-risk AI systems: standalone systems now have until 2 December 2027, systems embedded in already-regulated products until 2 August 2028. Article 50's transparency deadline is unaffected.
Council of the EU3 Jun 2026
Regulation
The European Commission proposed a four-tier sovereignty framework for public-sector cloud and AI procurement. Still a proposal moving through Parliament and Council, not yet adopted.
European Commission31 May 2026
Product
Inferis replaces its query router with a grounded, tool-calling agent that decides how to answer each question and which tools to use.
Apr 2026
Courts
57 of 63 citations in a filed appeal proved defective, 20 of them entirely invented. Asked directly whether he had used AI, the attorney first denied it, then admitted it. Suspended indefinitely pending a disciplinary investigation.
Mar 2026
Courts
Two attorneys were sanctioned $15,000 each in Whiting v. City of Athens, on top of the other side's fees and double costs, for a brief containing more than two dozen fabricated citations.
17 Mar 2026
Regulation
The Conseil National des Barreaux published a deontological guide covering professional secrecy and GDPR obligations for generative AI use by avocats. It has applied since 17 March 2026.
9 Feb 2026
Regulation
The Solicitors Regulation Authority updated its compliance guidance on AI. No new rules; a restatement of existing duties under the Standards and Regulations, with one headline expectation: it must always be clear to clients when they're dealing with AI.
SRAJan 2026
Regulation
The bodies behind PCRT, including ICAEW and CIOT, said putting a client's data into a public AI model without consent is likely a breach of confidentiality, unless the data is properly anonymised first.
Tax AdviserStanding
Regulation
The Law Society advises solicitors not to put confidential data into a generative AI tool where there is no real relationship with the vendor. The guidance is part of its Generative AI essentials.
The Law SocietyThe brief
What changed in AI rules for law, tax and accounting firms. What it means for client work. The deadlines worth watching. Written for practitioners. No product pitch.
Background
AI adoption in professional firms is running ahead of the policies meant to govern it. The numbers behind these stories:
About Inferis
Inferis is audit trailed AI for regulated professionals who can’t risk client data in public tools. Documents stay in the firm’s own region. Every query is logged in a tamper-evident record. Answers cite the source paragraph they came from.