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Development & Protection of AI Technologies
Our Intellectual Property (IP) and Privacy teams work closely together to counsel clients in building, protecting, and commercializing proprietary AI technologies and data; the use of third party or open source AI technologies and data; and the implications that these activities may have under privacy laws.
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Experience
|March 12, 2026
Winston Advises Eightco on $125M Funding Commitment Backed by Bitmine, ARK Invest, and Kraken
Winston & Strawn LLP served as counsel to Eightco Holdings Inc. in connection with a $125 million funding commitment led by a $75 million strategic investment from Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc., alongside commitments of at least $25 million from ARK Invest and $25 million from Payward Inc., the parent company of global cryptocurrency platform Kraken.
Experience
|March 12, 2026
Winston & Strawn LLP served as counsel to Eightco Holdings Inc. in connection with a $125 million funding commitment led by a $75 million strategic investment from Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc., alongside commitments of at least $25 million from ARK Invest and $25 million from Payward Inc., the parent company of global cryptocurrency platform Kraken.
Experience
|January 19, 2026
Winston Advises smartTrade Technologies Group on the Acquisition of kACE
A cross-border team from advised smartTrade Technologies Group (“smartTrade”), a leading provider of multi-asset electronic trading and payments solutions, on its acquisition of kACE Financial (“kACE”), formerly known as Fenics, a well-established provider of technology solutions for FX and interest rate derivatives pricing, analytics, and workflow management.
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|May 7, 2026
Decoding AI – Strategy to Safeguards: Making AI Governance Work in 2026
Join us for a practical discussion on how companies are building AI governance programs that work for their businesses and hold up under legal scrutiny.
Recognitions
|April 27, 2026
|Less Than 1 Min Read
Winston Lawyers Recognized in the 2026 California Legal Awards
Winston & Strawn lawyers have been recognized by The Recorder in the 2026 California Legal Awards. This series celebrates the achievements of outstanding legal professionals leading technology, innovation, and the profession as a whole.
In the Media
|April 24, 2026
|2 Min Read
Aimee Fagan Joins Winston in Dallas
Winston & Strawn recently announced that Aimee Fagan has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner in the Litigation Department and a member of the Intellectual Property Practice. Aimee is a first-chair trial lawyer whose practice focuses on intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. She represents clients in high-stakes disputes, with significant experience in technology and IP matters, particularly within the energy sector, as well as across the technology, financial services, private equity, medical, and retail industries.
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What Is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
The definition of artificial intelligence, also known as AI, is the capability of computers or robots to execute tasks that humans normally do. The meaning of AI can also include the development of computer systems that perform intellectual processes. In other words, machines perform tasks intelligently, such as reasoning and generalizing. Narrow AI is a type of artificial intelligence where the focus is placed on specific tasks. An example of this would be a virtual assistant who has targeted abilities, such as the ability to respond to questions. Strong AI is machine intelligence featuring human cognitive capabilities, such as the ability to make judgments, find solutions, or communicate. Today, it’s important to understand what artificial intelligence systems are commonly used for, including visual perception, speech recognition, and decision-making.
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Generative AI tools can create new content, such as text, computer code, images, audio, sound, and video, in response to a user’s prompt, often in the form of a short written description of the desired output. Generative AI tools are based on machine learning, trained using enormous amounts of data.[1] Generative AI tools are built on a system of inputs and outputs. First, the tool goes through a machine learning period whereby it is trained to generate predictive models and creative outputs through a large data set, often varied and diverse but tailored to the goal of the tool (i.e., customer service, generating scientific or marketing models, etc.). For in-house tools, this can be done with the company’s own data; for larger tools such as ChatGPT, this is done with the creator’s data set.[2] Once the tool has been trained, the individual user “inputs” a short prompt for the tool to synthesize and produce an “output.” Inputs are often retained on the servers controlled by the company that supports the tool, for monitoring of the tool’s performance and, in some cases, continued learning. The “outputs” are created by combining the machine learning during the training period with the inputs to produce an output.[3]
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What Is Disruptive Technology?
Disruptive technology is defined as new technologies or products that aim to improve and make efficient how traditional industries operate. Given their rapid pace of innovation and application, they often lack regulation and operate within a continuously evolving legal landscape. Recent examples of disruptive technologies include autonomous vehicles, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence.