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SWK Stanley Black & Decker 10-K Feb 24, 2026 · Item 1A, Risk Factors

The regulatory landscape surrounding artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving and the Company’s use of artificial intelligence may be subject to new legal or regulatory requirements, which may impose prohibitions or additional compliance burdens on the Company. For example, the Company’s artificial intelligence efforts may subject it to heightened compliance and legal as well as other risks related to technology integration, accuracy, program bias, data sourcing, intellectual property infringement or misappropriation, data privacy, and cybersecurity, among others. Moreover, the Company may experience brand or reputational harm if it fails to appropriately manage its use of artificial intelligence in compliance with applicable laws and regulations or successfully execute on strategies leveraging artificial intelligence.

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SWK Stanley Black & Decker 10-K Feb 24, 2026 · Item 1A, Risk Factors

Additionally, the Company’s competitors or other third parties may incorporate artificial intelligence into their products, services or operations more quickly, cost-effectively or successfully than the Company, or develop superior products and services with the aid of artificial intelligence, which could impair the Company’s ability to compete effectively and adversely affect its results of operations.

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SWK Stanley Black & Decker 10-K Feb 24, 2026 · Item 1A, Risk Factors

The Company’s businesses increasingly leverage artificial intelligence solutions to optimize their operations, improve customer experiences, and enhance their products and services. While the Company believes the use of artificial intelligence can offer significant benefits and opportunities, it also introduces a range of risks and challenges and there can be no assurances that the use of such technology will result in improved operational efficiencies, cost reductions or other anticipated benefits.

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SWK Stanley Black & Decker 10-K Feb 24, 2026 · Item 1A, Risk Factors

The use of artificial intelligence in the Company’s business operations, products and services could expose it to legal and compliance risks as well as brand or reputational harm and competitive harm, any of which may adversely affect its results of operations.

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SWK Stanley Black & Decker 10-K Feb 18, 2025 · Item 1A, Risk Factors

The Company’s information systems and data may be vulnerable to cybersecurity threats and incidents which can include uncoordinated individual attempts to gain unauthorized access to information technology ("IT") systems, sophisticated and targeted measures known as advanced persistent threats, breaches due to human error, malfeasance, or other cybersecurity incidents directed at the Company, its products, services and technologies, including those leveraging “Internet of Things” or generative artificial intelligence capabilities, its customers and/or its third-party service providers, including cloud providers. New vulnerabilities may be introduced as cybersecurity threats continue to evolve and if the Company or its third-party vendors increase their use of, or reliance on, emerging technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Company deploys measures which it believes leverage industry accepted frameworks to deter, prevent, detect, respond to, and mitigate cybersecurity threats. The Company has invested and continues to invest in risk management and information security and data privacy measures it believes are appropriate to protect its systems and data, including employee and critical service

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SWK Stanley Black & Decker 10-K Feb 18, 2025 · Item 1A, Risk Factors

The Company's future growth rate depends upon a number of factors, including its ability to (i) identify and evolve with emerging technological and broader industry trends in its target end-markets, including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence and machine learning; (ii) defend its market share against an ever-expanding number of competitors, including many new and non-traditional competitors; (iii) monitor disruptive technologies and business models; and (iv) attract, develop, and retain individuals with the requisite technical expertise and understanding of customers’ needs to develop new technologies and introduce new products.

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SWK Stanley Black & Decker 10-K Feb 18, 2025 · Item 1A, Risk Factors

All of these evolving compliance and operational requirements impose significant costs that are likely to increase over time. Privacy laws that may be implemented in the future, laws regarding product data and generative artificial intelligence, and court decisions impacting activities across borders, may require changes to certain business practices, thereby increasing costs and operational complexity, or may result in negative publicity, require significant management time and attention, and may subject the Company to remedies that may harm its business, including fines or demands or orders that the Company modify or cease existing business practices.

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SWK Stanley Black & Decker 10-K Feb 24, 2026 · Item 1A, Risk Factors

In addition, the Company's ability to compete could be negatively impacted by its failure to obtain and adequately protect its intellectual property and preserve its associated intellectual property rights, including patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and licenses, as well as its products and any new features of its products or processes. The Company's patent applications may not be approved and any patents owned could be challenged, invalidated or designed around by third parties. In addition, the Company's patents may not be of sufficient scope or strength to provide meaningful protection or commercial advantage. The use of artificial intelligence in the development of the Company's products and services could also impact its intellectual property protections.

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