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When you hear the word   AI   - what are you thinking of? Software, data or Hardware? Well of the three the most easy to get intellectual property rights is hardware. You can get a patent!   Software is harder to do. Things that are not patentable are computer programs, business methods or rules for playing games. If you still want to protect your software, you will have to prove (and this means getting a good lawyer )that it is part of technical contribution: either utility

Cartoon Image: Gemini Nano Banana Updated 3 December 2025 It took 65 years for the airline industry to get acceptance from the masses – for 50 million people to adopt it. Meanwhile that time allowed the industry to deliver standards and regulations for safety. Yet behind the scenes a key change has been AI adoption – whether we are looking at airports or airplanes. Yesterday it was Airbus’s turn to recall 2/3 of it A320 family of jets being flown across 350 operators’ due to

We just held out third policy council in Dubai hosted by Prime Hospitals. So we were able to get doctors, nurses, administrators, IT and AI experts working in healthcare to participate. It was a lively participation, and the scenarios were insightful – the ability to manage AI failures and have the authority to override, the need for cross-functional teams before deploying AI, the need for an authority to vet AI and more. Soon we will be publishing our policy report based on

📣 Our new paper is out - "Corporate Military Activities and Key Frontiers in International Business Research", with my co-authors ( Tazeeb S. Rajwani   Christopher Hartwell   Tao Chen ) - it has just been published in the Journal of World Business by   Elsevier .   🙏 Thank you to the amazing editors   Ajai Gaur   and   Daniel Andrews   and our anonymous reviewers. As with most papers, it is a journey that began with a chance meeting in   Academy of International Business (A

Finally, the UNESCO declaration adopted by member states on 5 November 2025 voted to adopt this instrument which will come into force on 12th November. It has huge implications for companies in this space. While late (as usual), this is welcome. Some countries have specific laws for neurorights like Chile, others mention neural data in their privacy laws. Some look at the technology itself for regulations so it is a complicated space. 1. Defines neurotechnologies as: devices,