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The UK is backing worldwide AI standards for schools, pledging £1.1 million to test classroom impact and hosting a summit next year to set the rules. Connecticut took a lighter touch, passing a pared-down AI bill that bans deepfake porn and boosts transparency while shelving tougher “algorithmic discrimination” controls.

On the geopolitical stage, President Trump heads to the UAE, where a draft deal could ship up to 500,000 Nvidia chips a year, fuel for Abu Dhabi’s bid to become an AI super-hub and fresh grist for U.S. security hawks. And in Ottawa, Canada tapped former broadcaster Evan Solomon as its first AI minister, a cabinet-level signal that tech policy now sits squarely at the center of national strategy.

This week’s Highlights:

• Industry News and Updates

• Indian AI Governance in-Progress: Recalibrating Commercial Viability and Safety Standardisation

• AI Regulation Updates

• Legalito’s Smart Enquiries: Bringing Clarity to a dark Corner of Conveyancing

• AI Tools to Supercharge your producivity

• Legal prompt of the week

• Latest AI Incidents & Legal Tech Map

➡️ UK to Support Global AI Rules for Schools, Phillipson Says | Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will announce UK support for global AI guidelines in schools and £1.1M for a pilot on AI’s impact in classrooms.Speaking at the Education World Forum, she’ll stress the need for safe, evidence-based AI use to reduce teacher workload and improve learning. The UK will also host a summit next year to shape international standards.
^{May 19, 2025, Source: Yahoo News}

➡️ Connecticut Senate Passes Scaled-Back AI Bill | Connecticut’s Senate passed a revised AI regulation bill 32-4 late Wednesday after a last-minute deal narrowed its scope. The changes won bipartisan support but left uncertainty over whether Gov. Ned Lamont will sign it. Key provisions include transparency rules and a ban on deepfake pornography. Removed were references to “algorithmic discrimination” and regulations on healthcare AI use. Supporters say it balances innovation and consumer protection; critics call it premature and overreaching. The bill now heads to the House.
^{May 15, 2025, Source: CT Mirror}

➡️ Trump Heads to UAE as It Eyes AI Superpower Status | President Trump is heading to the UAE, where leaders hope U.S. support will help make the Gulf nation a global AI hub, Reuters reported. A preliminary U.S. deal would allow the UAE to import up to 500,000 Nvidia AI chips annually, though it has sparked national security concerns. Trump’s Gulf tour also included major deals, including $600B in Saudi investments and 210 Boeing jets sold to Qatar Airways. Trump will meet UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan after addressing U.S. troops in Qatar.
^{May 15, 2025, Source: Reuters}

➡️ Evan Solomon Named Canada’s First AI Minister | Prime Minister Mark Carney has appointed former journalist Evan Solomon as Canada’s first-ever minister for artificial intelligence and digital innovation. The move highlights the Carney government’s focus on emerging tech as part of a broader cabinet shake-up that introduced 24 new ministers. Solomon, previously a CBC host and consultant, will lead efforts to shape Canada’s AI strategy. His appointment signals a push to prioritize innovation while reshaping the country's digital policies.
^{May 14, 2025, Source: The Canadian Press}

Compliance and regulations

Indian AI Governance in-Progress: Recalibrating Commercial Viability and Safety Standardisation

The ongoing discourse around AI safety in India is too often shaped by policy and ethics frameworks or comparative law literature imported from the Global North countries’ comparative perspectives. These are dominated by abstract principles, a tendency to overlook or not realise the risk of regulatory arbitrage in local regulatory regimes, and AI hype driven by various market players. This tendency to replicate such models not only overlooks India’s unique socio-technical landscape but risks stifling innovation in environments that are resource constrained, culturally diverse, and digitally uneven. What India urgently needs is a homegrown, resilient AI safety ecosystem that is scalable, economically frugal, and rooted in the country’s lived realities.

For instance, since the remarks made by US Vice President JD Vance on AI Safety and the viability of European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation at the AI Action Summit in France, in February 2025, a notable change is adopted that the UK Government changed the name of their AI Safety Institute launched in line with Bletchley Declaration in November 2023, as “AI Security Institute”. However, G7 member-states like Japan, under whose Presidency, a quite crucial AI Safety understanding was adopted in Hiroshima, in 2023-24, continue their AI safety initiatives. Incidentally, India’s AI governance as seem to be a “work in progress”, in comparison with Europe’s AI treaty by Council of Europe, and the AI Act, could become an exemplar to recalibrate commercial viability expectations of AI systems, and the basic AI Safety considerations around them.

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The most recent developments from the past week:

📋 15 May 2025 | US and UAE secure $200 billion in deals, including an AI acceleration partnership: As part of its tour to the Gulf states, the US White House has announced that the US and UAE have secured a $200 billion deal, including to establish a "US-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership" framework which would (1) allow the UAE to import 500,000 of Nvidia's most advanced AI chips per year; (2) commit the UAE to invest in, build, or finance US data centres; and (3) commit the UAE to further align their national security regulations with the US, including strong protections to prevent the diversion of US-origin technology. During the visit, Trump and Sheikh Mohamed also attended the unveiling of a new 5GW AI campus, which would be the largest outside the US.

📋 14 May 2025 | President Xi unveils roadmap for deepening cooperation with LAC countries: China President Xi Jinping has announced the launch of five programs aimed at promoting shared development and revitalization with Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. This announcement follows the establishment of the China-CELAC Forum in 2015. Among other topics, President Xi called for strengthening the synergy between the development strategies of LAC countries and the Belt and Road Initiative, and promoting cooperation in trade, investment, infrastructure, agriculture, science and technology, new energy and education. On the sidelines, President Xi also met with the Presidents of Brazil, Chile and Colombia.

Legal Technology

Legalito’s Smart Enquiries: Bringing Clarity to a dark Corner of Conveyancing

Turning the Enquiry Process Into Something Less… Painful

Ask any conveyancer what the usual bottleneck in the process is, and they’ll usually give you the same answer: the pre-contract enquiries. Vague replies, duplicated questions, time-consuming formatting and email threads stretching into the dozens. For a process as routine as property transactions, it can feel unnecessarily laborious.

Legalito, a legal tech company with roots in a forward-thinking UK conveyancing firm, believes it doesn’t have to be that way. Its tool, Smart Enquiries, aims not to automate the human judgment that conveyancing depends on, but to stop lawyers wasting hours on repetitive tasks and email administration. The result is a platform that helps experienced practitioners do what they already do well, but faster and with less friction.

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