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Meta Snubs EU Code, States Guard Brain Data, and Washington Unveils a $90 B AI Push
Meta Rejects EU Rules, Brain Data Laws Pass, $90 B AI Push, and a Peek Inside Legisway

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Welcome to this week's edition of The Legal Wire!
Meta just lobbed a grenade into Brussels’ rollout of its voluntary AI Code of Practice, refusing to sign and claiming the guidelines overstep the AI Act’s scope. EU lawmakers fired back that the code was written for precisely such developers; OpenAI and France’s Mistral have already agreed to comply.
Colorado, California, and Montana passed first-of-their-kind “neuro-rights” laws that require explicit consent before earbuds, headbands, or other consumer devices can collect or share brain-wave data. A Neurorights Foundation audit shows most neurotech startups still share that data freely with third parties, fueling bipartisan calls for a federal standard.
Meanwhile, President Trump convened tech and energy titans in Pittsburgh to trumpet $90 billion in fresh AI-and-power investments, including Google’s $3 billion hydropower deal and Blackstone’s $25 billion data-center spree. An AI Action Plan, complete with possible executive orders to fast-track grid access, lands on 23 July.
For in-house teams wondering how to keep pace with this regulatory and investment surge, our spotlight turns to Legisway, Wolters Kluwer’s all-in-one legal-management platform. Product owner Grégoire Miot explains how a single dashboard can unite contract workflows, litigation tracking, and AI-powered search, just as legal departments brace for an avalanche of new data and disclosure duties.
Read the full conversation to see why scalable software is no longer only optional for modern corporate counsel.
This week’s Highlights:
Industry News and Updates
Legisway by Wolters Kluwer: An All-in-One Legal Management Platform for the Demands of Modern In-House Work
AI Regulation Updates
AI Tools to Supercharge your producivity
Legal prompt of the week
Latest AI Incidents & Legal Tech Map


Headlines from The Legal Industry You Shouldn't Miss
➡️ AI’s Role in Layoffs Bigger Than Companies Admit | Reported by CNBC: While companies continue layoffs, few link them directly to AI—even as experts say automation is quietly driving job cuts. IBM and Klarna are rare exceptions, publicly citing AI-related reductions. Most firms use vague terms like “restructuring” or “optimization,” avoiding backlash while implementing AI behind the scenes. Experts say customer service, content, and HR roles are especially vulnerable, with AI replacing large parts of workflows—though not always the final human touch. Freelancers were first to feel the shift, but full-time roles are now in jeopardy too. As AI accelerates, companies may have no choice but to be more transparent.
Jul 20, 2025, Source: CNBC
➡️ Meta Refuses to Sign EU’s AI Code of Practice | Reported by Euractiv: Meta has declined to sign the EU’s voluntary Code of Practice for general purpose AI, claiming it creates legal uncertainty and exceeds the scope of the AI Act. Joel Kaplan, Meta’s global affairs chief, said Europe is “heading down the wrong path on AI.” OpenAI and France’s Mistral have confirmed they will sign the code. EU lawmaker Sergey Lagodinsky rejected Meta’s argument, saying the code was written with AI developers in mind.
Jul 18, 2025, Source: Euractive
➡️ States Move to Protect Brain Data as Neurotech Advances | Colorado, California, and Montana have passed laws requiring consent to collect or share brain data from consumer devices like earbuds and EEG headbands. As AI advances, experts warn this data could reveal personal health or emotional information. A Neurorights Foundation report found most neurotech companies lack protections and often share data with third parties. The new laws aim to give users full control over their neural data, with growing bipartisan support and calls for federal action.
Jul 16, 2025, Source: CBS News
➡️ Trump Joins Tech, Energy Leaders at AI Summit Amid $90B Investment Push | Reported by Reuters: President Trump joined tech and energy leaders in Pittsburgh Tuesday to promote $90B in AI and energy investments across Pennsylvania. Executives from Google, Microsoft, Meta, Exxon, and others attended the summit at Carnegie Mellon. Trump pledged to make the U.S. the global AI leader, with Google announcing a $3B hydropower deal and Blackstone investing $25B in data centers. An AI Action Plan is due July 23, with potential executive actions to fast-track power access and construction.
Jul 15, 2025, Source: Reuters


Will this be the Next Big Thing in A.I?
Legal Technology
Legisway by Wolters Kluwer: An All-in-One Legal Management Platform for the Demands of Modern In-House Work
For legal departments managing growing volumes of work across litigation, contract governance, risk monitoring, and internal compliance, the question is no longer whether software is needed, but which system is built to handle it. Legisway, developed by Wolters Kluwer, presents itself as a legal management platform designed to respond to the increasing operational demands facing in-house teams.
This week, The Legal Wire heard from Grégoire Miot, Product Owner at a company that’s close to home, quite literally, for The Legal Wire, sharing its origins in the Netherlands. Known globally for its work in legal, tax, and regulatory publishing, as well as ESG and compliance software, Wolters Kluwer has built a reputation for developing tools that are practical, scalable, and deeply informed by the day-to-day realities of professional services.
With Legisway, Wolters Kluwer has applied that experience to the legal department itself, offering a platform that combines contract management, litigation tracking, entity oversight, and AI-powered search within one environment.


The AI Regulation Tracker offers a clickable global map that gives you instant snapshots of how each country is handling AI laws, along with the most recent policy developments.
The most recent developments from the past week:
📋 18 July 2025 | Guidelines on the scope of obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models under the AI Act: The European Commission has released guidelines on the scope of the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models laid down in the EU AI Act, in light of their imminent entry into application on 2 August 2025. This is a key piece of administrative guidance, setting out the legal interpretation of provisions for which the Commission will be the sole enforcer. Notable points as follows: (1) The compute threshold for what qualifies as a GPAI model was increased from 10^{22} to 10^{23} floating-point operations per second (FLOPs), which for the Commission reflects the amount of compute that is typically required to train models with 1 billion parameters. In addition, the model must be able to produce text, audio, images or videos; (2) For downstream modifications, the threshold was set at one third of the computational resources used to train the original model. The Commission clarified that, if this threshold is passed, it will be considered as if a new model will be placed on the market, and the downstream modifier will have to comply with the AI Act immediately as the grandfathering clause will not apply; (3) The guidelines explain how the open source exemption will be applied, including a series of practices that would not be deemed acceptable such as placing restrictions on usage, requiring additional licensing or restraining the public availability of parameters, including the model’s weights; and (4) an important clarification on the grandfathering clause for models already on the EU market that will have until August 2027 to comply with the AI Act. In these cases, providers are not expected to “conduct retraining or unlearning of models, where it is not possible to do this for actions performed in the past, where some of the information about the training data is not available, or where its retrieval would cause the provider disproportionate burden.”
📋 16 July 2025 | House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on AI and criminal exploitation: The US House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance will hold a hearing on AI and criminal exploitation which will examine the growing threat of AI-enabled crime, including how criminals are leveraging AI to conduct fraud, identity theft, child exploitation, and other illicit activities. It will also explore the capabilities and limitations of law enforcement in addressing these evolving threats, as well as potential legislative and policy responses to ensure public safety in the age of AI.


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The weekly ChatGPT prompt that will boost your productivity
This prompt turns scattered files into a proof roadmap, instantly showing what’s covered, what’s thin, and what to chase, so you direct discovery dollars where they matter and prep faster for motions or trial.
Instructions:
Provide:
- Cause(s) of action (e.g., breach of contract, negligence).
- List of required legal elements (or ask to generate from jurisdiction).
- Available evidence (docs, emails, testimony, expert reports—bullet form).
- Jurisdiction (optional, improves element accuracy).
Ask for an output that:
- Builds a table mapping each element → supporting evidence (cite doc/witness).
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- Flags gaps and suggests targeted discovery or follow-up.
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- Ends with a short action plan (top 3 priority evidence tasks).


Collecting Data to make Artificial Intelligence Safer
The Responsible AI Collaborative is a not‑for‑profit organization working to present real‑world AI harms through its Artificial Intelligence Incident Database.
View the latest reported incidents below:
⚠️ 2025-07-14 | Purported Deepfake Scam Videos Depict JG Summit Holdings President and CEO Lance Gokongwei Allegedly Endorsing Illicit Investments | View Incident
⚠️ 2025-07-08 | Grok Chatbot Reportedly Posts Antisemitic Statements Praising Hitler on X | View Incident


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