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Meta has axed a controversial feature that allowed users to modify photos from public Instagram accounts using AI. The feature, which was rolled out earlier this week along with a batch of other AI tools, "missed the mark" and is no longer ... (report_number: 7508)

An unoccupied Waymo vehicle caught fire in San Francisco after driving over a firework Saturday night, adding another complication to a chaotic Fourth of July marked by fog, gridlock, transit delays and illegal fireworks across the city. T ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1583#7509)

July 14 (Reuters) - Twenty-six employees of Meta ‌Platforms have filed a novel lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who took medical leave in selecting wor ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1584#7510)

Discord says a bug affecting its safety system caused it to mistakenly ban more than 8,000 accounts since May. The platform's statement follows a wave of reports from users over the past week, who say they've been banned for posting images ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1585#7511)

AIID editor's note: Please visit the original thread on X by Discord Support. This weekend, our safety systems incorrectly triggered and banned around 200 accounts. Everyone affected has been reinstated. Here's what happened. A thread 🧵 ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1585#7512)

Key Observations This case study shows that AI-enabled attackers do not necessarily need novel malware or zero-days. The real shift is speed, scale, and orchestration: familiar cloud attack techniques were executed faster and across more s ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1586#7513)

MeetingTV, an online videoconferencing and webinar startup, is suing Palo Alto Networks and recently acquired threat-intelligence firm Koi Security over a security research report that linked its infrastructure to a Chinese hacking operatio ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1587#7514)

MeetingTV has sued Palo Alto Networks after its newly acquired Koi Security threat-intelligence biz published a blog that linked the video conferencing and webinar startup to a Chinese corporate espionage operation. The legal complaint fil ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1587#7515)

The instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love. And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, impersonated a 28-year-old Singaporean wo ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1588#7516)

Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’ A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history”. The case, filed in federal court in New York, has been brought by three publishers – Hachette Book

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing the construction of the largest data centers for one year while the state assesses their effects on the environment and energy use.

Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order enacting a moratorium on the large, resource-intensive AI facilities New York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday. Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on the large facilities used to power artificial intelligence products. Continue reading...

The fund-raising values the company at $3.8 billion and underscores investor interest in using artificial intelligence to tackle problems like drug discovery.

PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2; Marimittu Games A soft puzzle game makes a sharp point about the over-optimised future ahead In the far future, on a planet that is not Earth, AI is in charge. This entity is no Skynet-esque killer robot but a machine that cares for humanity. Manifesting most visibly as cute droids, the technology is pervasive – embedded in everything from the design of the sleek architecture to the gorgeous, mostly sunny artificial weather. The so-ca

PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese says the federal government will introduce faster approval processes for AI projects, including datacentres, across Australia, seeking to shore up investor certainty and maintain community confidence in the rapidly advancing technology . Announcing the creation of

Companies have been getting more out of employees for several years. Tight labor markets, digitization and remote work are among the reasons.

Should you say please and thank you to chatbots? This week on “Hard Fork,” Kevin and Casey talk with professor and A.I. expert Jeff Sebo about why he feels it’s important to be nice to your future robot overlords.

A combination of fact and fiction leaves the celebrated documentarian’s puzzling project about software training wanting for depth Marc Isaacs’ new film is a curious, intriguing, semi-sincere affair that I couldn’t make friends with. It is an odd, shallow piece of work about artificial intelligence that is itself exasperatingly artificial, a self-aware docudrama hybrid. Isaacs is, or rather pretends to be, licensing the vivid characters from his previous, acclaimed documentaries to a fictional A

Labor MP says ‘a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work’ was a founding principle of the ALP as media union calls for tougher new rules on AI use of creative work Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Labor MP Ed Husic says any moves to water down copyright law to benefit AI companies would be “going against the ethos” of the party and undermining the principle of “a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work”. Husic also

OpenAI's first device is set to be a smart speaker that lets you talk with ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg. The device apparently won't have a screen, but will use a camera and additional sensors to "understand" your environment. The report comes just days after Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI that accused […]

Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.

US military’s drone boats struck an Iranian naval port as war heats up again.

A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as reported earlier by Reuters. In the lawsuit, the employees allege Meta determined which workers to dismiss based on performance data collected by a "constellation" of internal AI tools, […]

A new study found social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

Summary Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructions . These exploits worked across nearly all major LLMs revealing an industry-wide security problem. Kuszmar calls for slowing deployment, increasing transparency , and large-scale research into LLM safety before further integrating these systems into society. On a fine bright afternoon last fall, my colleague Matthew Gore-Kormanik (or Zigula, as he prefers t

And that could be a good thing

New York’s data center moratorium may become the blueprint for anti-AI movement.

Generative AI’s overemphasis on Western moral concerns could reinforce global disparities in sensitive applications such as public health messaging and global communication.

New hyperscale data centers can't set up shop in New York for up to a year now that Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has signed the nation's first statewide moratorium. But a bill passed by the state legislature that could restrict even more developments still awaits her signature. The order blocks new environmental permits for data […]

In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.

MIT students designed, built, and tested a jet engine with AI copilots, assessing AI’s usefulness in developing high-performance aerospace systems.

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.

New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom shouldn’t come at the expense of higher electricity costs, water supplies, or local control.

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice.

With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies.

Enterprise automation startup InstaLILY Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $60 million Series B round of funding that brings its total amount raised to date to almost $100 million. In addition, it launched a new tool that can help companies to quickly build, deploy and then continuously update and maintain software that […] The post InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

DOJ Has A Cool New Way To Demoralize The Attorneys It Has Left Working For It: Mandatory case quotas. Read The Opinion… No, Not Like That: Amy Coney Barrett tells Congress that the Supreme Court doesn’t really care about explaining itself all the time. Law School Doesn’t Need To Be A Debt Sentence: These schools […] The post Forcing Prosecutors To Bring Cases To Keep Their Jobs? What Could Possibly Go Wrong? — See Also appeared first on Above the Law .

This marks the third death in a week involving encounters with federal immigration agents.

Incoming interim dean has... issues. The post Has A Law School Had A Dean Facing Court Sanctions Before? Asking For THIS Law School. appeared first on Above the Law .

Anthropic on Tuesday launched a free version of its chatbot geared specifically towards teachers, as a growing number of educators utilize artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom. In a release, the company said its Claude for Teachers platform will provide K-12 teachers in the U.S. access to a library of teaching skills and a direct...

Artificial intelligence pioneer Demis Hassabis today called for the creation of a standards body focused on regulating frontier models. Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind, proposed in a Substack essay that the U.S. should lead the effort. Axios reported that the executive has held talks about the initiative with the White House, European officials and […] The post Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis calls for creation of AI standards body appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Kevin Warsh told the House Financial Services Committee that the technology is a “huge opportunity” for the American economy but the Fed is monitoring its impact closely. The post Fed chair says AI ‘hasn’t displaced workers’ so far, has boosted productivity appeared first on FedScoop .

New York became the first state in the U.S. to impose a statewide moratorium on new data centers today after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing state environmental permits for large facilities for up to a year. Executive Order No. 62 took effect on signing and covers hyperscale data centers that draw 50 […] The post New York becomes first US state to impose a data center moratorium appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

CNBC's Jim Cramer said today's stock market is far less concerning than it was during the dot-com bubble.

Turns out accountability was always something for other people. The post Amy Coney Barrett Then: ‘Read The Opinion!’ ACB Now: Inappropriate To Expect Supreme Court To Explain Decisions appeared first on Above the Law .

The initiative stems from a June 2 executive order that urged advanced AI developers to grant the government early access to their capabilities to address potential vulnerabilities.

The Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks extension for VS Code is a new tool that enables developers to connect their local IDE directly to managed Jupyter notebook environments on Google Cloud. By Sergio De Simone

A source with the Senate Banking Committee Democrats said the acting CFPB director hasn’t responded to a June 22 letter about the disappearance of 15 years of content. The post Vought ducks Dems’ questions about CFPB website deletions, source says appeared first on FedScoop .

The White House said the clearinghouse has already started to receive intelligence on vulnerabilities and prioritize patches. The post White House details ‘Gold Eagle’ clearinghouse for AI cyber threats appeared first on CyberScoop .

Honey will help collaborate with the agency’s Health IT office as part of the new role. The post NIH taps former data chief Kristen Honey as first partnerships officer appeared first on FedScoop .

A study on Biogen's diranersen found it slowed cognitive decline and has promise in treating Alzheimer's disease, researchers found.

The move advances a yearslong effort to end the practice of changing the clocks twice a year.

The future probably will not belong to the lawyers who memorize the most rules. The post Geoffrey Brow On Why the Best In-House Lawyers Learn To Fly The Plane With One Engine Burning appeared first on Above the Law .

The bill would let Trump impose tariffs of up to 100% on the largest purchasers of Russian oil

Meta cut its workforce by 10 percent in May.

The program will bring essential online services to more than 75 rural and regional library systems.

The lawsuit filed by current and former Meta employees underscores rising concerns about AI's impact on jobs and people with disabilities in the workforce.

Anthropic is committing $10 million CAD to eight Canadian research institutions to fund work on beneficial and responsible AI applications. The partnerships span Canada’s three leading regional AI institutes, Amii in Edmonton, Mila in Montréal, and the Vector Institute in Toronto, along with children’s hospital CHEO, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Université Laval, […] This story continues at The Next Web

The new satellites for missile warning, tracking and targeting are being developed under an “accelerated” schedule to meet the Pentagon’s 2028 plans for demonstrating its Golden Dome missile defense shield.

The thrill in seeing the level of skill and talent on display, on both an individual and team level, was exhilarating. The post Welcoming The World appeared first on Above the Law .

SASC Ranking Member Jack Reed, D-R.I., told Breaking Defense settling the budget would be the most “practical step” and that lawmakers could “revive” the legislation quickly if “stars align.”

To coordinate regulation.

The U.S. telecom regulator is securing communications networks supporting the year’s largest sporting event.

Following departure of predecessor in April.

It's the latest in a barrage of efforts to win compensation from AI companies over training materials.

A group of 12 Democratic state attorneys general is suing to block Paramount Skydance’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery — arguing the transaction violates antitrust law by giving the combined company undue power in three markets: wide-release theatrical distribution, tentpole movies and basic cable TV. Paramount says the suit “distorts settled antitrust law” and that the […]

"I know there’s all sorts of conspiracy theories going along, and I think the FBI is wasting their time if they’re doing that,” the President said.

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GD-OTS told Breaking Defense it has now reached an agreement with the Army on the way ahead for the troubled Mesquite facility and will invest its own dollars to complete the work.

President Donald Trump issued two proclamations on Monday, dramatically reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah. His authority to do so relies on a controversial interpretation of legislation from 1906.

Surgeons remotely control two human-like robots in an operating theatre.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett details the real-life consequences of threats against judges, and why the high court wants more money to protect judges. The post When Being A SCOTUS Justice Means Explaining Bulletproof Vests To Your Kids appeared first on Above the Law .

Logistics company C.H. Robinson has seen a 45% productivity gain from deploying AI agents. Its CEO Dave Bozeman explains how he's found ROI from AI.

The part everyone skips when discussing AI firms is how much managing the machine actually takes. The post AI-First Law Firms Don’t Work Fewer Hours, They Work Smarter Hours appeared first on Above the Law .

The publisher Sage has retracted eight papers by a former “rising star” from a Dutch university for a “compromised” peer-review process at a journal he edited. Last week, Retraction Watch obtained an email from an editor at Sage to the editorial board of Group & Organization Management, stating that, following a “thorough investigation,” the publisher … Continue reading Sage retracts eight papers by former Radboud ‘rising star’ for compromised peer-review process

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Providing secure access for your human staff is no simple task. For one, traditional VPNs often grant unnecessarily broad access, The post What happens when your VPN meets 200 AI agents appeared first on The New Stack .

The pause follows deadly shootings in Houston and Maine involving agents shooting into vehicles

Draft text of the Digital Age Assurance Act mirrors a California law that has received widespread industry support.

Actor Ben McKenzie, best known for his role on the TV drama "The OC," urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to vote against a cryptocurrency regulation bill over the lack of an ethics provision limiting President Trump’s involvement in the industry. McKenzie has become a key crypto critic, releasing a documentary about the industry last year...

Patients with no other options are watching an agency turn on its own scientists — and the trust that took a century to build is draining out in two years.

A new regional security operations center, run from two community college locations, is the latest piece of Arizona's plan to bolster the cyber defense of under-resourced local governments and build a talent pipeline.

California will begin offering instant rebates of up to $3,500 to first-time electric vehicle (EV) buyers later this summer, replacing some of the incentives lost after the Trump administration phased out EV and clean energy tax credits. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday signed new legislation establishing a $270 million rebate program for California...

Ross is clearly no longer exhibiting good behavior. The post Inaction On Judge Eleanor Ross Sends A Clear Message: Retaliating Against Whistleblowers Is OK appeared first on Above the Law .

The October election in Israel will be the voters’ verdict on Benjamin Netanyahu.

The rapid evolution of software-centric vehicles on the battlefield has placed new pressures on the Department of War to restructure its acquisition models. The post Defense industry shifts procurement model to speed drone deployment appeared first on DefenseScoop .

California’s audacious goal of having half of all K-12 students enrolled in bilingual education programs by 2030 has encountered one big stumbling block — there aren’t enough qualified bilingual teachers. To help remedy that, a $10 million grant tucked in the state budget aims to help school districts recruit high school students as future bilingual […]

The U.S.-based company assigned a recently hired technical employee to testify remotely before the European Parliament, which left a series of key policy questions unanswered.

Visa has taken the wraps off an AI assistant that US banks can embed into their own apps to provide cardholders with financial insights.

As the AI cost crisis begins to fade from the forefront, a related fear is rearing its head: The need The post The enterprise strikes back: Keep your data, ditch the AI bill. appeared first on The New Stack .

Doubling the service from roughly 10,000 to 20,000 military members by 2030 is not a trivial matter. Here are a few options the next service chief should consider.

On July 7-8, NATO held its 36th official summit in Ankara, Turkey. There were several consequential topics to discuss at this year’s meeting, chief among them the wars in Ukraine and Iran and the uncertain future of European defense and security. We asked five experts to assess the outcomes of the summit for the various parties involved.Liviu HorovitzAssociate Researcher at German Institute for Security and International AffairsThe key takeaway from Ankara is that even President Donald Trump is

Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank more than four decades ago and was an early supporter of AI, investing tens of billions of dollars to related companies.

Twenty-six current and former Meta employees have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the company of using AI-powered systems that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who had taken medical leave when selecting people for mass layoffs. The suit, filed Monday in Oakland, California, alleges that Meta relied on productivity metrics and AI token usage data […] This story continues at The Next Web

Flex, an AI-native private banking platform for high-net-worth business owners, has raised $70 million in funding as it bids to go global.

Also starring Bill Nighy and Ed Skrein, the series follows best friends, one an elite assassin and the other a clueless civilian, forced to go on the run together across Europe.

These law schools would like to keep their graduates out of debt. The post The Law Schools That Offer Students The Most Help With Tuition (2026) appeared first on Above the Law .

Risk tolerance, exposure visibility, board oversight — handling third-party risk is complicated but achievable with disciplined, precise governance.

New York became the first U.S. state to ban the construction of new large-scale AI data centers after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday.

The 36 missile warning and tracking satellites are expected to launch by the end of 2028 in support of Golden Dome. The post SDA awards $1.75B in deals for additional Golden Dome missile tracking sats appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Too often, parents take for granted that their children’s school experience is fundamentally the same as what’s happening in all the district’s schools. It turns out that is often far from reality. And some differences come through vastly different Parent-Teacher Association budgets. That doesn’t have to be the case. As researchers and parent leaders, we […]

Anthropic is rolling out Claude for Teachers, a free offering for verified K-12 educators at US schools. The article Anthropic opens Claude for Teachers with a promise not to train models on student data appeared first on The Decoder .

Developers often assume that packages published through official channels have passed through a secure release process. That assumption is fundamental to modern software development, where open source components are routinely integrated into applications through automated dependency management. A new investigation suggests that confidence can be challenged when attackers gain access to the systems responsible for publishing software. […] This story continues at The Next Web

The appointment suggests that the unicorn is moving from securing a regulatory foothold in East Africa’s biggest economy to building a banking business.

Images, videos and voice searches can be used to train Google's LLMs. You can disable this feature to retain your privacy.

A hot action movie package is coming together at Netflix, multiple sources told Variety, one roughly 33 years in the making. “Reacher” and “War Machine” star Alan Ritchson is in negotiations to topline “Maelstrom,” a spec originally sold to Warner Bros. in 1993 by prolific producer Jeff Robinov when he was an agent. Jaume Collet-Serra, helmer […]

Main Justice found a lever to pull that isn't 'why do people keep leaving?' The post DOJ Rolls Out A Case Quota For The Prosecutors It Hasn’t Lost Yet appeared first on Above the Law .

How FIs can achieve banking transformation as well as digital sovereignty.

How should FIs embed AI into their core banking systems?

What practical solutions can emerge when we combine open-source tools, community data, and collaborative innovation in a hackathon setting?

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren are returning to theaters in “The Conjuring: First Communion,” a prequel movie in Warner Bros. and New Line’s horror franchise. Garrett Wareing and Amanda Fix will star as young Ed and Lorraine, taking over for Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who have portrayed adult versions of the characters across […]

Richard Sutton gründet „Oak Lab“. Das Startup will KI-Agenten bauen, die im laufenden Betrieb lernen – statt nach dem Training statisch zu bleiben.

The post Trump Administration Launches Crackdown on Teacher Sexual Misconduct Following KQED-ProPublica Investigation appeared first on ProPublica .

DeepSeek is already raising again. The Chinese AI lab just closed its first funding round and needs capital for its own data centers and chips to keep its aggressive pricing strategy going. The article DeepSeek needs more cash just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round appeared first on The Decoder .

Paris-based production companies SCoT(T) and The Project have boarded ‘Gro(ceries),’ a vampire self-identity comedy starring ‘Sex Education’s’ Chinenye Ezeudu-Sterling, who is also the co-writer with director Sophie King. The news comes ahead of the project’s participation in Fantasia Festival’s Frontières Co-Production Market, held July 22–25 in Montreal. U.K.-based lead producers Rosanna Eden-Ellis (Five By Five […]

JPMorgan Chase has cut jobs by as much as 40 percent in some parts of the bank using artificial intelligence, CEO Jamie Dimon told analysts during the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday. But investors hoping the technology will dramatically improve profit margins are likely to be disappointed. Dimon said that in a competitive market, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Indian B2B ecommerce platform Udaan has secured $160 million in a funding round that combines fresh equity from a new investor, additional debt, and the conversion of existing convertible bonds into equity, according to Bloomberg. Lightspeed Venture Partners and M&G Investments are participating in the round. The deal is designed to clean up Udaan’s balance […] This story continues at The Next Web

In “Moana,” the Polynesian heroine sings about the gravitational pull she feels to return to the water. Disney, the studio behind the live-action remake of the 2016 animated musical, might have been wise to ignore the impulse to go back to the sea … at least so soon. Arriving a decade after the original and […]

Intentional or not, Paul Weiss continues reputational pivot away from litigation. The post Linklaters Poaches Two Paul Weiss Litigators appeared first on Above the Law .

Wall Street is no longer the only industry reaching into every corner of the economy

Die Medienanstalten stufen KI-generierte Antworten als eigene Inhalte ein und fordern Transparenz. Das DSA-Haftungsprivileg greift hier laut Gutachtern nicht.

Cutting-edge artificial intelligence models are deploying with more independence and less human oversight. Several state governments are trying to legislate transparency in their use.

Concho AI today introduced its flagship platform, an artificial intelligence platform that understands software development and application work, providing deep semantic understanding and organization that enable developers and AI agents to transform and modernize massive, sprawling codebases into something manageable. “Its job is to provide an intelligence level that you would normally get from a […] The post Concho AI turns enterprise codebases into a knowledge layer for AI agents appeared fir

The attack vector is available for rent at scale, and evades AV and EDR, leaving YARA analysis as the best detection option.

The Investing Club holds its "Morning Meeting" every weekday at 10:20 a.m. ET.

Bioenergy supply chain startup BiofuelCircle has raised ₹35 Cr ($3.6 Mn) in a bridge funding round led by existing investor…

Commission exempts smart glasses like Meta's from batteries regulation, clearing a major hurdle to European expansion.

Elsie Peng's research draws an uncomfortable parallel to the PC revolution: productivity gains took 15 years to materialize last time.

Chai Discovery Inc., a company that develops artificial intelligence models to predict interactions between biochemical molecules, today announced it has raised $400 million in new funding, nearly tripling its valuation to $3.8 billion. Index Ventures led the Series C round alongside Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and Dimension. New investors joining the investment included Bain Capital […] The post Chai Discovery nabs $400M Series C as AI-designed antibodies reach Big Pharma appeared first on

Hundreds of economics and artificial intelligence researchers warned Monday that institutions must begin preparing for the potential economic upheaval AI could unleash, while putting many jobs at risk. The open letter, signed by Nobel laureates, top computer scientists and technology executives, including from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, said policymakers “must act now” to address the...

The technology is different, but the conversations aren't. The post Legal Operations Was Built For The AI Era appeared first on Above the Law .

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McConnell's hospitalization, Trump's health opacity, and now a senator's sudden death are forcing a GOP reckoning.

JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon has revealed he could become a teacher after he steps down, following in the footsteps of Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer.

Entrust, a global leader in identity-centric security solutions, announced the Agentic AI Trust Accelerator, a co-development program that will bring together enterprises and integration partners to build the identity and trust infrastructure needed to move autonomous AI projects from pilot to production.

John Baylouny sat down with Breaking Defense to lay out his plans for both organic and inorganic growth.

TikTok's policy chief defended the platform's safety measures as the European Union pushes ahead with restricting children's access to social media.

The trillion-dollar AI investment boom risks a bust that could damage the global economy, the Bank for International Settlements has warned.

How can agentic AI empower bank and corporate treasurers?

AI agents are already doing business. Delaware is moving to bring them inside a predictable American legal order, just like the LLC and PBC.

The yellow-tuxedoed showman is famous for turning a struggling minor league baseball franchise into a viral global phenomenon by putting fan experience above all else. The post Exclusive: As Its Kaleidoscope Conference Returns For Year Two, 8am Trades Austin’s Cowboy Boots For The Las Vegas Strip — And Books The Savannah Bananas’ Founder As Keynote appeared first on Above the Law .

Palihapitiya is part of a growing chorus of investors and tech executives who are cautioning that the tokenmaxxing era is coming to an end.

San Francisco high school students, particularly those with high needs, enrolled in ethnic study courses achieved higher GPAs, stronger academic gains in math and science, and failed fewer courses, according to a new report. A new study from the universities of Pennsylvania and California analyzed a longstanding San Francisco Unified School District ethnic studies program, […]

Building on the launch of the first Model Context Protocol (MCP) server by a U.S. bank, Grasshopper and our digital banking technology partner, Narmi, are making secure AI-powered banking even easier to discover and use.

Investors are increasingly comparing exchanges on more than just the number of listed coins or mobile app features.

Burial grounds are filling up but are new methods any more green than traditional options?

The pitch for medical AI is that it frees clinicians to care for patients. Two stories this week suggest the reality can run the other way. In New York, nurses say software replaced them. In Minnesota, a former Mayo Clinic leader says the software was not safe to trust. Marilyn Shuler spent 39 years reading […] This story continues at The Next Web

Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. Its own report shows emissions up 25% in a year instead. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres. Microsoft set one of the boldest climate targets in tech. By […] This story continues at The Next Web

The series, from executive producer Ryan Murphy and based on the best-selling novel, follows a group of elite prep-school students in 1980s Los Angeles.

Dutch intelligence officials report that at least one Russian agency is compromising internet-connected cameras across Europe to spy on military logistics and Ukrainian personnel.

Uber lost the race to build a self-driving car. Now it wants to write the rules for everyone who did. In two US states it is lobbying for laws that would force robotaxis onto its app, and its own product chief is happy to explain why. Uber could not win the race to build a […] This story continues at The Next Web

“The relationship between child development and artificial intelligence is one of the most critical and overlooked challenges of our time,” writes Dana Suskind.

Google and industry partners announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools, APIs, and agents. ARD introduces a discovery layer built on catalogs and registries, enabling dynamic capability discovery while leveraging existing protocols such as MCP and OpenAPI for execution and emphasizing trust and interoperability. By Leela Kumili

The frustrating science of keeping your ears from doing their job.

Meta is pushing advertisers to hand their campaigns to its AI. A Business Insider investigation found the tools spitting out gibberish copy, mangled limbs and products that no longer look like the products. Meta’s reply, in effect: that’s your problem. Meta wants brands to let its AI build their ads. A Business Insider investigation shows […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Enterprises racing to deploy AI at scale are discovering that the biggest constraint isn’t model capability anymore — it’s control. As agentic AI moves from experimentation into core business processes, companies are rethinking whether handing proprietary data to closed frontier models is a risk worth taking, opening the door for open-weight AI models. That shift is […] The post Together AI positions open-weight AI models as the enterprise moat for cost, control and IP appeared first on SiliconA

France’s Pasqal is heading to Nasdaq at a $2bn valuation, roughly 100 times its revenue. Its own filings spell out two things. Quantum computing might never pay off. And Paris can veto who owns the company. Pasqal, the French quantum-computing firm, is going public in the United States. It is merging with a blank-cheque company, […] This story continues at The Next Web

RealPage, Inc., a leading provider of AI-enabled software and data analytics to the real estate industry, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Cherre, a real estate data intelligence company trusted by institutional owners, investment managers, and operators worldwide.

Six months ago, Flex raised $60m and called it a Series B. On Tuesday it said it had raised another $70m, and rather than move down the alphabet, it settled on a Series B1. The round was led by Halo, the investment firm set up last year by Qualtrics founder Ryan Smith, who owns the […] This story continues at The Next Web

Emails between regulators and xAI’s consultants put most of the turbines in Southaven, Mississippi. Within five miles on the Tennessee side, about 94% of residents are Black. Ervin Laws lives in Colonial Hills, a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi, where residents say the turbines running around the clock sound like jet engines. “I can’t do anything […] This story continues at The Next Web

The defense-focused artificial intelligence systems infrastructure startup Valarian Technologies Ltd. said today it has closed on a hefty $50 million early-stage funding round as it looks to position itself as a critical player in the emerging “sovereign AI” market. The Series A round was led by new investor New Enterprise Associates, which is making its […] The post Sovereign AI infrastructure startup Valarian raises $50M to help nations secure their defense systems appeared first on SiliconANG

Hidden in a forest south of Bend, Oregon, a first-of-its-kind clean energy project is starting to take shape. Called Project Obsidian, the “superhot” geothermal power plant will deliver 24/7 electricity—and could soon compete on cost with fossil fuels as it pioneers new drilling technology. “Our goal is to be competitive, if not cheaper, than existing sources of baseload power today,” says Matthew Houde, cofounder and chief of staff at Quaise Energy , the startup developing the project, which is

InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering more than one billion health records globally, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Electronic Health Records (EHR).

Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™ and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced VIVERE Group, a leading Indonesian one-stop solution provider for interior contracting, furniture manufacturing and furnishing, has selected Rimini Support™ for SAP to help maintain business continuity, strengthen support for its critical SAP ECC environment and free internal IT resources to focus on digital transfo

Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, worth £800m, or $1.1bn. But no fundraise set that price. Staff did, by selling shares on London’s untested new private market. Moneybox, the British savings and investing app, is now a unicorn. It has put a value of about £800m, or $1.1bn, on itself, the Financial Times first reported. The […] This story continues at The Next Web

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As Apple’s latest legal battle with OpenAI complicates the Silicon Valley race to reshape the consumer tech market, one Chinese start-up is taking a leap forward after unveiling what it claims to be the world’s first agentic smartphone. At a launch event in Shanghai on Monday, Tencent Holdings-backed StepFun introduced the StepX Neo. The device runs on Step AOS, an operating system designed specifically for artificial intelligence agents, and was launched under StepX – which the firm billed as..

The average public school building in America is now 49 years old. In more than half of U.S. school districts, those buildings require significant repairs or full replacement. Too many students are trying to prepare for a 21st-century economy in facilities that are no longer capable of supporting a 21st-century education. If communities continue treating […]

YouTube works well with default settings, but I tighten some privacy controls and enable a few features to make it even better.

Oracle Corp. today announced a new artificial intelligence-native experience for its Fusion Applications within Oracle AI Agent Studio, allowing developers, customers and partners to build agents together. This expansion fills in the developer side of Oracle’s Fusion app agentic enterprise strategy. The company’s AI Agent Studio initially allowed business users and partners to assemble agents […] The post Oracle opens Fusion Agentic Applications to pro-code developers and coding agents appeared

"The women and men and children of Gaza continually astound and inspire me and our international team," writes Dr. James S. Gordon.

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Several major BBC journalists see pay drop following election year. The post Top-paid BBC journalists 2025/26: Stephen Nolan and Laura Kuenssberg top list appeared first on Press Gazette .

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis has published a sweeping proposal for how to handle advanced AI. He wants a new US standards body modeled after financial regulator FINRA that would develop evaluation protocols for frontier models and could coordinate a slowdown in AI development if needed. Startups and research models would be exempt. The article Deepmind CEO Hassabis says "nobody in the world knows what happens next" so "cautious optimism" means building guardrails now appeared first on The

The 61,026 recordings would carry a theoretical maximum statutory damage of $9 billion, up from around $84 million under the original 560-work complaint. Source

SA remained among Africa's most targeted countries for cyber attacks in June, according to Check Point Software Technologies.

Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse is now valued at over $2 billion after an extended Series C round. The article PixVerse's $2B valuation shows investors still believe AI video generation has room for another winner appeared first on The Decoder .

Over the past few weeks, I have had a lot of conversations with clients who have read the headlines

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WAEMU, an eight-country region, wants to build a connected fintech ecosystem that bypasses the interoperability problem much of Africa faces. At Catapult Africa 2026, investors, founders, and regulators gathered to discuss what that future would look like.

New York has become the first US state to place a moratorium on the construction of data centers.

Alibaba Group Holding and Honor are set to deepen their tie-up over an operating system for AI-powered devices, as competition in the nascent “AI phone” genre gains momentum in China. The partnership is expected to be announced at the coming World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), which kicks off on Friday in Shanghai, alongside demonstrations of new agent capabilities developed by both, according to people familiar with the matter. Shenzhen-based Honor, spun off from Huawei...

At the beginning of each new class, Al Rabanera lets his students know that he knows they’re using AI. “I’m not going to pretend like you aren’t,” he tells his students. “I know it’s readily available for most of you, if not all of you.” A math teacher at La Vista High School in Fullerton, […]

As part of a review of its operating structure process, the company says a limited number of roles have been affected.

It acknowledges the day Parisians stormed the Bastille fortress and prison in 1789, helping spark the French Revolution that overthrew the monarchy.

New York will block new large data centers that fuel artificial intelligence for up to a year to protect the environment and energy grid. Gov.

National Treasury's draft crypto regulations strip property rights and contradict the central bank's own vision, Luno argues.

Google released the Genkit Agents API in preview for TypeScript and Go. The open-source framework packages message history, tool loops, streaming, and state persistence behind a single chat() interface. Detached turns let agents work after clients disconnect. Interruptible tools provide human-in-the-loop control with anti-forgery validation on resume. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Press Gazette rolling updates on redundancies made in 2026. The post Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Sherwood News shuts down and axes staff appeared first on Press Gazette .

As Gulf states compete through scale and headline-grabbing mega-projects, Bahrain EDB’s CEO H.E. Noor is pursuing a different path—leveraging regulatory innovation, specialist sectors, and strategic partnerships to position the kingdom as the region's agile investment hub.

Community leaders and organizers rallied to demand accountability after an ICE agent fatally shot a motorist in Biddeford, Maine on Monday.

Women are less likely to use GenAI tools than men, and female-dominated occupations face higher displacement risk, warns Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr.

The modern soybean is one of the world’s miracle technologies, capable of cheaply, efficiently, and healthfully supplying protein and other nutrients to billions of people. But, unfortunately, we’ve mostly chosen to squander it on the most destructive purposes possible. Soy is America’s second most widely cultivated crop, occupying a land area equivalent to more than […]

Sunny Gupta spent a decade and a half building Apptio into the system of record for enterprise technology spend. His The post What makes CIOs trust an AI agent? Thira bets it’s not the model. appeared first on The New Stack .

This past year, Zhihao Lei has signed his name to at least 35 letters to the editor of medical journals, weighing in on topics from ICU care to breast cancer. In eight of them, he identified himself as a Ph.D. at Cornell University, although he held only a bachelor’s degree at the time. Two of … Continue reading A student claimed to have a Ph.D. in at least eight letters to journals. Two have been retracted.

Google has struck a deal to purchase a major solar project's entire electrical output to offset its fossil fuel emissions.

Iran's military on Tuesday released footage said to show missiles being launched towards U.S. bases in the region.

Are you geeky about tech policy and love all things online? Then come work with the best tech policy publication in India. MediaNama is looking for a tech journalist. The post MediaNama is hiring Tech Journalist appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Lenskart’s early investor Temasek has offloaded 3.56 Cr shares, or a 2.05% stake, in the omnichannel eyewear company through holding…

The e-Government department failed to implement a recommended security measure before the breach exposed applicants’ data.

In a bid to expand its offerings ahead of its public market debut, Zepto is reportedly exploring the launch of…

Many South African companies have no clear picture of where their data lives, which jurisdiction governs it or what happens if something goes wrong, says Richard Frost, head of technology solutions and consulting at Armata Cyber Security.

To manage complex technology environments, many CIOs and CTOs are adopting event messaging orchestration, says Harry Nicholson, senior product manager of automation and process management at Blue Turtle.

A deep dive into the funding saga behind the Please Call Me settlement – starting with Nkosana Makate’s claim that Black Rock Mining was a facade for businessman Errol Elsdon.

Call it AV déjà vu: Once again, Waymo’s performance during a major disruption is raising questions about whether it is ready to operate at scale. Over the July 4 weekend, Waymo vehicles clogged San Francisco streets near the city’s fireworks celebration. A string of robotaxis, apparently unaware of event-related road closures, worsened the already severe gridlock. The batteries in some of the autonomous vehicles died, requiring them to be towed. At least one Waymo drove straight through a firewo

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is imposing the nation’s first-ever statewide freeze on new “hyperscale” data centers. Hochul is pausing state-level environmental permits for “up to” a year to give the state time to put together a framework to protect the environment, the energy grid and New Yorkers’ electric bills, her office said. Hochul...

Forscher des MIT entwickeln einen fliegenden und schwimmenden Roboter nach dem Vorbild von tauchenden Seev�geln. ( Roboter , Wissenschaft )

Deepfakes undermine the credibility that makes digital care — from telehealth visits to patient portals — possible.

The results of a recent AI competition show that better data trumps bigger models when it comes to predicting properties of drug candidates.

Australia's eSafety Commissioner says major online platforms continue to have significant gaps in detecting child sexual exploitation, grooming and sexual extortion. The post Lowdown: Australian regulator finds major gaps in platforms’ detection of child sexual exploitation appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

If your institution has deployed a generative AI system in production, you have a guardrail layer. T...

Nineteen weeks ago, Iran faced the combined might of the most powerful country in the world and the most advanced military in the Middle East. Today, it is dictating the terms of the peace.When the memorandum of understanding was signed last month, President Donald Trump declared, “The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all!” and told the ships of the world to start their engines. Iran’s response was to keep striking and impose toll collection on the world

The agentic web era has arrived, and Chinese companies are going all in. Humans were overtaken last month by artificial intelligence (AI) agents and AI bots as the majority users of the internet, data from global network company Cloudflare shows. By early July, agents and bots accounted for more than 60 per cent of web traffic. Even Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince expressed surprise in a post on X, having initially forecast AI agent-driven web use would pass the 50 per cent mark only in late 2027.

As Kaiser Permanente CEO Greg Adams touted the success of his organization’s value-based care models at the AHA Leadership Summit in Denver, Kaiser nurses outside protested the health system’s AI strategy. They claim they’re being excluded from decisions about the technology. The post Kaiser Nurses Protest CEO’s AHA Appearance Over AI Concerns appeared first on MedCity News .

To AI-Proof Lawyers, Some Law Schools Restrict Technology kathryn.palmer… Tue, 07/14/2026 - 03:00 AM Last week, the University of Chicago Law School announced a ban on laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom. The goal is to help students develop critical oral argument skills, which AI likely won’t take over from human lawyers any time soon. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

Under New Policy, NSF Won’t Fund Research Involving Chinese Scientists Katherine Knott Tue, 07/14/2026 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Katherine Knott

Career Literacy Strengthens Student Success Joshua.Bay Tue, 07/14/2026 - 03:00 AM New research from the DeBruce Foundation found early career literacy can help students prepare for an AI-driven workforce. Byline(s) Joshua Bay

Western Governors President on the State of Online Ed Josh Moody Tue, 07/14/2026 - 03:00 AM Scott Pulsipher explains why Western Governors is expanding and why he thinks competency-based education will continue to grow. Byline(s) Josh Moody

How the Stop WOKE Act Ruling Strengthened Academic Freedom sara.custer@in… Tue, 07/14/2026 - 03:00 AM A conversation with Tim Cain, an academic freedom expert and professor of higher education at the University of Georgia. Byline(s) Dominique J. Baker

The European Commission plans legislation to restrict social media access for children under 13 across the EU following recommendations from an expert panel. The post EU moves to restrict social media access for children under 13 appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

VC firm Elevation Capital has launched Fund IX with a target corpus of $500 Mn to back Indian startups across…

Through its Managed Print Services offering, Kyocera helps companies monitor and manage their print environments more effectively, says Yunus Docrat, service manager at Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa.

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China’s electric vehicle exports rose 68.7% year-on-year in the first half of 2026, according to customs data released on July 14. Exports of electric motorcycles and bicycles increased 31.5%, electric locomotives 45.1%, lithium batteries 37.6% and wind turbines 35.6%. The same data showed that exports of AI-integrated intelligent bionic robots exceeded 10,000 units and reached […]

Shanghai-based Marvel-Tech, a developer of gas turbines and industrial waste-heat and waste-pressure recovery turbine systems, has completed two consecutive financing rounds totaling more than RMB500 million. The C round was led by HongShan, while the B round was jointly led by C&D Emerging Investment and Qiming Venture Partners. The company said the funds will support […]

The Centre has reportedly asked homegrown AI unicorn Sarvam AI and BharatGen to develop advanced cybersecurity capabilities similar to Anthropic’s…

Business leaders unwilling to embrace technology ‘should play the role of spouse’, says controversial investor

DIW-Forscher Gornig kritisiert Technologieoffenheit als Blockade neuer Investitionen. Deutschland müsse stattdessen auf Nischen und Spezialisierung setzen.

Weit über 200 renommierte Ökonominnen und Ökonomen warnen vor den Folgen der KI-Revolution für den Arbeitsmarkt. Es müsse jetzt gehandelt werden, fordern sie.

Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group’s CEO Masayoshi Son has ridiculed people who worry about a bubble in artificial intelligence investments.

Plus how the IAB is seeking to modernize how digital video inventory is defined, bought and measured.

As reporter-led video becomes a priority, publishers are investing in newsroom training to help journalists deepen audience relationships.

Shift from chatbot errors to autonomous ‘agents’ leaves businesses exposed to widening range of legal claims

Deal signals continued demand for renewable energy despite Trump administration’s efforts to end tax credits and stall plans

Efforts to bring AI glasses to a broader demographic via a partnership with Kylie Jenner appear to have backfired

Information sharing between Home Office and NHS England has led to leaks of sensitive data

Cyber attacks tried to track down American personnel in Middle East as Tehran attacked forces in the region

Current regulations not ready for the change.

The facility will be built in Sturgeon County, Alberta, and powered by a natural gas-fired plant.

Facing anti-corruption policies and profit squeezing at home, Chinese innovative medical device companies are accelerating their push into the European market despite mounting cross-border trade protectionism. Government-backed hospital purchases of medical devices in China fell about 12 per cent year on year in the first five months of 2026, partly weighed down by “a new anti-corruption probe into hospitals”, dragging on the revenue of major Chinese medical device makers in the first half, said

Researchers determined that AI was used in steps across entire cyber operations to identify security flaws, generate commands and carry out parts of intrusions, sometimes with little human oversight. Both U.S. and Chinese AI models have been involved.

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced plans to significantly expand the scope of its Hyperion data center project. The Facebook parent is seeking to build a sprawling artificial intelligence hub in Richland Parish, Louisiana. When Meta first disclosed the initiative in late 2024, it stated that the project budget would exceed $10 billion. It boosted the […] The post Meta boosts investment in Hyperion data center campus to $50B+ appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

We treat early childhood teachers like babysitters instead of the engineers they are. If we want them to stay, we have to invest in the systems that ...

After decades in secure jobs, a new generation of Chinese retirees is entering later life with pensions, spare time, and an appetite for new experiences.

Finnish defence AI company NestAI has launched a new effort to build European-made AI models for the battlefield, backed by cooperation with the Finnish Ministry of Defence and the Estonian Defence ...

Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.

See how sales teams can use ChatGPT Work to create pipeline briefs, meeting prep packets, forecast reviews, account plans, and stalled-deal diagnoses from real work inputs.

This year the state of New York had the dubious honor of being the first to pass a controversial provision to mandate all 3D printers come with surveillance and censorship. That means not only is there a ticking clock to protect every artist, researcher, engineer, and hobbyist in the state, but there is a real risk of other states thoughtlessly following suit—prior to the New York rules even taking effect. We, along with many other experts , already warned about this bill buried in the state’s c

Research fellow Bill Robinson speaks with The Globe and Mail about CSE spending. The post Canada’s Electronic Spy Agency Conducted Cyberattacks on Criminals Brokering Fentanyl Ingredients, Report Says appeared first on The Citizen Lab .

At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around agents, rather than just building with agents.

simonw/pedalican Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a "pet" in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of Clippy - and then learned you can create your own. So I did, and now I have a cute little pelican on a bicycle bouncing around my desktop giving me updates on my Codex tasks. Your browser does not support HTML5 video. The most interesting thing about this process was watching how the custom pet was cr

lobste.rs is now running on SQLite Community site Lobsters has been planning a migration away from MariaDB since August 2018 - originally targeting PostgreSQL, but last year they decided to investigate SQLite instead. This weekend they completed the migration, and now consider it stable enough that it looks like this is the permanent architecture for the site going forward: SQLite seems to have passed with flying colors: cpu usage is down, memory usage is down, site seems to be snappier at least

On 29 June 2026, the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs rapporteur Charlie Weimers published a draft report, to be presented at a public hearing on July 15, on “The Institutional Framework of the European Union and its Interaction with National Authorities in the Application of Union Law, with Particular Reference to Article 19 TEU”. The CJEU's historic reluctance to open up its own governance, notwithstanding what the post-Lisbon constitutional arrangement requires of it, has left it

The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does. This language is rarely written down in one place. It lives partly in documentation and code, but also in code review, conversations, arguments, and the experience of having to explain a change to somebody else. Before agents, some of this shared understanding wa

The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) invites applications for a competitive emerging scholars program connected to a Department of National Defence Mobilizing Insights in Defence ...

Iran and Ukraine show cheap mass defeats expensive platforms. Unless it buys deep, low-cost defence and civilian resilience, NATO can win every engagement and still lose wars. Two wars are teaching ...

Bad Supreme Court decisions are nothing new, but on the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara, the justices laid an egg that will hatch some ugly ducklings. The court ruled that children born ...

Release: datasette 1.0a37 A minor release. Performance and documentation improvements to the permissions system, plus I reverted a cosmetic API change which caused almost every existing plugin test suite to break. Tags: datasette

Queer in AI 2026 [Bremen] [Aug 14, 2026 - Aug 15, 2026]

Social Ethics in the East and West: Norms, Values, and Modern Transformation [Edited Book] [May 11, 2026 - Jun 14, 2026]

The Sixth ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization [Munich] [Nov 5, 2026 - Nov 7, 2026]

The Sixth ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization [Munich] [Nov 5, 2026 - Nov 7, 2026]

3rd Workshop on AI for Cyber Threat Intelligence @ ACSAC 2026 [Los Angeles, California, USA] [Dec 7, 2026 - Dec 7, 2026]

The Sixth ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization [Munich] [Nov 5, 2026 - Nov 7, 2026]

2027 11th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI 2027) [Kyoto, Japan] [May 28, 2027 - May 30, 2027]

The Sixth ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization [Munich] [Nov 5, 2026 - Nov 7, 2026]

2027 7th International Conference on Computer, Control and Robotics (ICCCR 2027) [Chengdu, China] [May 14, 2027 - May 16, 2027]

Florida Digital Humanities Consortium 2026 Conference [St. Petersburg, Florida] [Oct 30, 2026 - Oct 30, 2026]

IEEE 2026 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and High Performance Computing [Xi'an, China] [Sep 18, 2026 - Sep 20, 2026]

Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Meeting On MacIntyre [Newport News, VA] [Nov 6, 2026 - Nov 8, 2026]

Imagining the AI Landscape after the AI Act [Brussels] [Jul 7, 2026 - Jul 7, 2026]

International Symposium on Social Robots and Ethical Design [Fukuoka, Japan] [Nov 10, 2026 - Nov 11, 2026]

National Symposium on Effective & Ethical AI [Morgan State Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA ] [Jul 25, 2026 - Jul 26, 2026]

Call for CRAFT proposals - Critiquing and Rethinking Accountability, Fairness, and Transparency - ACM FAccT 2026 [Montreal] [Jun 25, 2026 - Jun 28, 2026]

Philosophical Counselor (Filozofski savjetnik) - International Journal for Philosophical

2026 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics [Guangzhou, China/Online] [May 22, 2026 - May 24, 2026]

31st Annual International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems [Trondheim] [Jun 17, 2026 - Jun 19, 2026]

SSCE Postgraduate Conference Spring 2026 [Christ Church, Oxford] [May 6, 2026 - May 6, 2026]

Embodying the System: On the Unity of Theoretical and Practiccal Philosophy in Fichte (second call)

Call for Papers - At the Limits of Narrative Reparation

Societal & User-Centered Privacy in AI (SUPA) Workshop [Seattle, WA, USA] [Aug 10, 2025 - Aug 10, 2025]

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Journal (Q1 - IF 9.6) Special Issue on Affective Impact of Next-Generation Intelligent Health Systems

China's new law on anthropomorphic AI comes into effect tomorrow. Here is what it says | Edition #306

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (virtually) at the Policy-Relevant Privacy Research Workshop in Calgary, Canada, on Monday, July 20, 2026. I’m speaking at Boston Leadership Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026. I’m speaking at Cognitive Security Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The conference runs August 6-7, 2026; my speaking time is TBD. I’m speaking at DEF CON 34 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The conventions runs

Every B2B CMO I talk to right now is asking a version of the same question: What roles do I need on my team for the future? It is a fair question. It is also the wrong one to lead with. AI is not changing marketing by introducing a fixed set of new jobs to […]

Power is AI infrastructure’s inescapable constraint. How many tokens an AI factory can generate within a fixed power budget determines its revenue and profitability. Because of this, performance per watt — a metric that can’t be gamed, only earned through real-world results — is the foundation for AI factories. As agentic AI drives token demand […]

A former lead climate lawyer for the U.S. State Department offers her perspective on the future of multilateral initiatives to combat climate change. The post W(h)ither Climate “Multilateralism”? appeared first on Just Security .

International law experts respond to the Trump administration's campaign to "dismantle" the International Criminal Court. The post What does the Trump Administration Statement on Dismantling the ICC Really Mean? appeared first on Just Security .

On 10 July 2026, the European Commission announced that it had preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the “addictive design” of Instagram and Facebook. The Commission considers that Meta should disable autoplay and infinite scroll by default, build in real screen-time breaks, and make the recommender system “less engagement-oriented”. The decision is better understood from its strategic and symbolic dimensions in view of its contestable legal basis. The post Press-Rel

See what 7th grade math has in store for your student!

Today's links Gerontocracy's failure mode: Where are the designated survivors? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MSFT v MP3; UK industry v schoolkids; Gary Larson v comics sharing; Planned LED obsolescence; PoGo v Black neighborhoods; Gnarlier trolley problems; Royal Society v cryptographic backdoors; Theresa May v climate change; Google v search; Facebook v facts. Upcoming appearances: Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, South Bend. Recent appearances: Wher

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) has implemented a one-year ban on new large data center projects. The state’s data center moratorium will have profoundly deleterious consequences, including lost investment ...

CFR Education aims to build global affairs literacy by providing free, nonpartisan resources and programming to help middle, high school, and higher education students gain the knowledge, skills, and ...

TIL: Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way I finally found a cache-friendly recipe for using uvx tool-name in GitHub Actions workflows that I like. The trick is setting a UV_EXCLUDE_NEWER: "2026-07-12" environment variable at the start of the workflow and then using that as part of the GitHub Actions cache key. This means any uvx tool-name commands will resolve to the most recent version as-of that date, and you can bust the cache and upgrade the tools by bumping the date in the fu

200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI

Proactive agents that anticipate user needs and autonomously execute tasks hold great promise as digital assistants, yet the lack of realistic user simulation frameworks hinders their development. Existing approaches model apps as flat tool-calling APIs, failing to capture the stateful and sequential nature of user interaction in digital environments and making realistic user simulation infeasible. We introduce Proactive Agent Research Environment (Pare), a framework for building and evaluating

NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: Maria D’Avanzo, of New York, to be Inspector General, General Services Administration. David Slade, of Florida, to be First Vice President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States for a term expiring January 20, 2029. Timothy Westlake, of Wisconsin, to be Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, Department […] The post Nominations and Withdrawals Sent to the Senate appeared first on The White House .

On April 18, 2026, President Trump issued Executive Order (E.O.) 14401, "Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness", acknowledging that individuals suffering from serious mental illness may not always respond to existing therapies. This request for information (RFI) solicits stakeholder feedback on training and care delivery models that could be used to ensure safe and effective delivery of potential future Food and Drug Administration (FDA)- approved psychedelic drugs, includin

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Commission) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, that the Michigan Advisory Committee (Committee) to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will hold public meetings via Zoom. The purpose of the first meeting is to begin to hear from experts on the committee's study topic of Artificial Intelligence and Civil Rights in Michigan, and continue briefing discussion and planning at t

In this final rule, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to provide enhanced favorable treatment for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Specifically, BIS is removing the UAE from Country Groups D:3 and D:4 and adding the UAE to Country Group A:5. More license exceptions will now be available, including Strategic Trade Authorization (STA) for the UAE Government and approved commercial entities in the UAE. STA will authorize the export, reexport

Warm water in household pipes can be a breeding ground for harmful bacteria.

Choosing a path for the future has never been easy, but for young people today, such rapid technological change as artificial intelligence (AI) is making it increasingly difficult to predict which ...

Rebuilding Ukraine is about far more than restoring physical infrastructure; it is about embedding fundamental human dignity and rights into everyday local governance. This was th ...

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The World Bank Group’s Public Workforce Performance and Prosperity global report brings novel data analytics to the study of public administration and focuses on how to make the world’s 400 million ...

The Federal Trade Commission lauded an Ohio Supreme Court proposal to lower the cost of legal representation by ending the American Bar Association’s explicit control over whether an Ohio bar applicant’s legal education is sufficient for practicing law in the state, undermining its monopoly. View Press Release

Settlement will drive down patients’ out-of-pocket costs, increase transparency and ensure community pharmacies are treated fairly The Federal Trade Commission secured a settlement agreement with one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and its affiliated entities, marking yet another important victory in the Commission’s fight to lower healthcare costs for Americans. View Press Release

What GAO Found The Space Force is the smallest military service, with about 15,400 total personnel in fiscal year 2025. The Space Force largely inherited its workforce from other services and has completed some assessments as it seeks to right-size its force to meet growing missions. However, it determines personnel requirements based on a mix of analyses that are not consistent across Space Force units. Further, some units operate under personnel requirements that are outdated and do not reflec

What GAO Found Certain types of waste are particularly pervasive or difficult to clean up with existing technologies. Microbes (e.g., bacteria, fungi) can be engineered to break down pollutants more effectively. For example, researchers have inserted genes into bacteria that allow the bacteria to break down contaminants, such as phenol or hydrocarbons, in water and soil. At present, there are no examples of commercially available engineered microbes for waste cleanup. Example areas where enginee

What GAO Found As of September 2025, the Coast Guard reported about $448 million in environmental liabilities related to its shore infrastructure. This includes about $228 million for structures, like housing, presumed to be contaminated with asbestos-containing material or lead-based paint based on their age. It also includes about $220 million in cleanup projects at sites with a known or suspected release of contaminants. Several factors create uncertainty that could potentially lead to hundre

As digital technologies and AI continue to reshape education, work and daily life, digital literacy remains essential. Yet some of the most valuable skills are also the most human. This year's theme, ...

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Personalized recommendation systems are central to modern e-commerce and retail platforms, but they typically rely on centralized storage of detailed user interaction data, creating significant privacy and regulatory challenges. With increasing requirements from regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA, organizations must develop recommendation systems that preserve user privacy without substantially degrading recommendation quality. This work presents and evaluates a privacy-preserving recommen

Policy documents shape governance outcomes, but their reasoning is often implicit. Participatory commitments and managerial control routinely coexist in the same text, and the tensions between them are rarely stated directly. Existing computational approaches to policy discourse cannot express the frame-mediated relations that drive these tensions, where one argument narrows or instrumentalizes another rather than rejecting it. End-to-end summarization by large language models produces fluent te

Agentic AI introduces new insurance challenges because autonomous AI systems can make decisions, invoke tools, modify external environments, and interact with third-party services. This paper develops an AI-native mathematical framework for underwriting, pricing, and contract design for agentic AI deployments. A deployment is represented by a risk state that captures autonomy level, operational authority, permission exposure, governance maturity, and dependency concentration. The framework maps

Attention-based KV cache eviction (H2O and its descendants) compresses the memory-constrained state of a long-context model by ranking tokens on accumulated attention mass, treated here as signal energy, and keeping the heaviest. On schema-dense input streams such as nested JSON, this score acts as a non-stationary filter that disproportionately retains noise: a non-content sink role (delimiters or whitespace) carries an order of magnitude more energy than any content role, and structural KEY to

Aligned language models routinely misreport under non-evidential incentive pressure: they agree with a confident user or overstate certainty even when their internal belief is unchanged. We cast this as a failure of internal incentive-compatibility (IC) and present a method for learning and certifying counterfactual report mediators that hold a model's reports to a causal contract: invariant to forbidden influences (pressure, prestige, restyling) and responsive to licensed ones (genuine evidence

Math reasoning has achieved significant progress with the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), however analytic geometry remains largely underexplored, primarily due to the scarcity of annotated samples. Existing diagram generation approaches struggle with analytic geometry: template methods cannot handle constraint-driven layouts, and generative models lack the geometric precision to render annotated conic curves correctly. We present FormalAnalyticGeo, a scalable fram

Unconventional computing systems must demonstrate robust performance under real-world environmental conditions to enable practical deployments. We have recently proposed superparamagnetic nanodot ensembles driven by strain-induced magnetoelectric coupling as exciting candidates for use as ultra-low energy consumption reservoir computing substrates. However, because their dynamics are governed by thermal activation effects, these systems are intrinsically sensitive to ambient temperature fluctuat

Although topological mapping and navigation have been studied extensively, the specific role and downstream effect of loop closures in purely topological representations has received relatively little attention. Importantly, loop closure over topological maps is distinct from loop closure over globally referenced trajectories and metric maps. Building on recent denser topologies grounded in pixel-level, relative 3D geometry, we propose PixelLoop which introduces loop closures directly in pixel s

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly improved the performance of multimodal emotion recognition (MER) and enabled interpretable description generation by jointly modeling video, audio, and language, etc. However, these performance improvements are often accompanied by an increase in model parameter size (e.g, at least 7B), which simultaneously incurs high computational costs and reduces inference efficiency, thereby hindering real-time deployment on reso

AI-enabled systems are seeing increasing deployment across numerous domains, with many being "black boxes" with respect to core functions and capabilities. I.e., many systems take inputs and give outputs, but without users having any ability to see how the former lead to the latter. AI-enabled systems are also being used to augment autonomy in systems, and autonomy coupled with opacity raises numerous concerns surrounding, e.g., the reliability of systems, their regularity in functioning, human

While recent advances in 3D generation have enabled impressive visual synthesis, existing methods often rely on 2D diffusion supervision without explicit mechanisms for geometric consistency, leading to spatial hallucinations such as duplicated structures and misaligned geometry. These issues become more severe in 4D generation, where maintaining consistency across viewpoints and temporal evolution introduces additional challenges, including jitter, identity flicker, and structural drift. We pre

While recent advances in 3D generation have enabled impressive visual synthesis, existing methods often rely on 2D diffusion supervision without explicit mechanisms for geometric consistency, leading to spatial hallucinations such as duplicated structures and misaligned geometry. These issues become more severe in 4D generation, where maintaining consistency across viewpoints and temporal evolution introduces additional challenges, including jitter, identity flicker, and structural drift. We pre

Farm site discovery from satellite imagery is a spatiotemporal candidate ranking problem because farm evidence is distributed across pasture, field boundaries, roads, buildings, and seasonal vegetation patterns. Direct farm labels are often incomplete, which makes fully supervised detection difficult. This paper proposes a weakly supervised pipeline for ranking dairy farm candidate clusters from seasonal Sentinel imagery and open map priors. The method uses aligned spring, summer, and autumn ima

Smart-building load forecasters are often trained offline on dense, multivariate, high-frequency data, but deployment may provide only hourly, feature-limited inputs. Missing features must then be reconstructed, and their errors can propagate through the model. If this input uncertainty is not reflected, prediction intervals may become miscalibrated, affecting demand-response scheduling. Our work examines where uncertainty should be placed once inference inputs are reconstructed. We develop a un

LLMs can perform language-based quantitative prediction from unstructured inputs, but remain susceptible to hallucinations and overconfident errors, making it critical to know not only what a model predicts, but when its predictions can be trusted. We introduce CARE-PPO, a reinforcement learning framework that establishes a connection between loss prediction for uncertainty estimation and actor-critic PPO fine-tuning, enabling joint learning of accurate numerical estimates and reliable confidenc

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) floor plan drawings contain both graphical primitives and textual annotations, which provide complementary geometric and semantic cues for intelligent design understanding. Among CAD analysis tasks, panoptic symbol spotting has become increasingly important with the growing demand for industrial digitalization and deep learning-based automation. However, most existing methods remain primarily primitive-centric and underexploit textual annotations, despite their critic

The paper introduces the Internet of Agentic Things (IoAT), an architectural framework that integrates agentic AI, IoT, cyber-physical systems, Physical AI, edge computing, and digital twins into a unified closed-loop orchestration framework. The proposed architecture consists of cloud, edge/fog, and physical IoT layers connected through autonomous AI agents that perceive, reason, coordinate, and actuate across distributed cyber-physical environments. The paper formalizes IoAT as a coupled workf

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved impressive performance on diverse embodied tasks. However, deploying VLA models on low-power onboard devices, such as the Jetson Orin, remains challenging due to their high computational complexity, which leads to substantial inference latency and low control frequency. Asynchronous inference can partially mask this latency by parallelizing action execution and subsequent inference, but it introduces two critical issues: perception-execution misa

Tool access alone does not make LLM empirical reasoning governable: accepted outputs need not descend from attested evidence, and accepted deductions need not hold up under formal scrutiny. We present EG-VAR (Evidence-Grounded Verified Agentic Reasoning), a Lean 4-based tool-calling architecture in which the Lean kernel is the sole minter of Verified claims via tool-attestation axioms and declared source lifts. Every verified output structurally descends from an attested tool call (Thm. 3.1) and

The rapid emergence of LLM-powered autonomous and semi-autonomous agents is reshaping software systems from static, request-response components into goal-directed, adaptive, and tool-using computational actors. As these agents move from isolated cognitive prototypes into complex distributed workflows, they confront challenges that the Service-Oriented Computing community has studied for more than two decades: composition, interoperability, quality of service, lifecycle management, governance, se

According to the recent European legislation, high-risk AI systems will have to adapt in order to comply with requirements related to specific areas, like risk management, data quality and governance, logging and traceability, technical documentation, transparency, human oversight, and accuracy, as outlined in the European Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. As the standardisation process for AI is expected to remain iterative and, so far, there are no European standards on AI fully covering the c

We investigate whether temporal hierarchy can improve LeWorldModel on long-horizon goal-conditioned control. We introduce Hi-LeWM, an extension that freezes the pretrained low-level LeWM and adds high-level planning over latent subgoals. We evaluate Hi-LeWM on PushT and Cube across increasing goal offsets. Hierarchy does not automatically improve performance: at short horizons, the best configuration uses a one-step high-level horizon, while longer horizons reveal a mismatch between the learned

The capability of LLM agents to function as the ``brain'' of a system fundamentally expands the scope of analysis beyond a standalone model. Consequently, safety is no longer only about input--output content alignment. It also concerns system behavior and real-world execution outcomes. However, the current literature is fragmented across attack types, applications, and benchmarks. This makes it hard to explain why failures such as prompt injection, tool misuse, and memory poisoning often share t

EEG-to-image evaluation should distinguish visual fidelity from recoverable meaning. Yet EEG-derived reconstructions are blurry, distorted, and low-detail, causing SSIM, LPIPS, and CLIP to penalize semantically recoverable outputs or reward plausible but incorrect ones. We analyze 6,855 ground-truth/reconstruction pairs from ATM, ENIGMA, BrainVis, and DreamDiffusion using semantic probes, caption harshness and blind-spot rates, and controlled degradations. Pixel metrics show near-zero correlatio

While modern question answering (QA) systems excel on clean, schema-aligned corpora, real-world knowledge is rarely so neatly packaged. Answering questions over enterprise and scientific data lakes requires systems to navigate heterogeneous, weakly structured collections of tables, passages, and linked metadata. Current benchmarks abstract away this noisy discovery process, failing to evaluate end-to-end performance. To bridge this gap, we introduce LakeQuest, a human-validated benchmark of 9,84

The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) into education presents significant opportunities to enhance teaching and learning, while raising ethical concerns about the responsible use of these technologies in educational settings. Understanding how the public perceives and debates these issues is increasingly important for educators, institutions, and policymakers seeking to integrate AI responsibly and equitably. Social media platforms, where such debates un

Background: Virtual health care models, such as (HaH), are an alternative to in-person care and allow hospitals to expand care capacity and delivery without the need for additional brick-and-mortar structures. While generally well received, there is an overall lack of awareness among those receiving and giving care about what HaH is and what it does, and uncertainty about the conditions needed to implement HaH in a safe, sustainable, and equitable way. Objective: In this descriptive qualitative

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI)–generated lifestyle recommendations are increasingly used to support health behavior change. However, AI advice does not necessarily mean that users will accept or adopt those recommendations. Although prior reviews have examined AI-enabled lifestyle interventions and health behavior technologies, fewer have focused on whether users accept and adopt AI-generated recommendations. Objective: This scoping review aimed to map user acceptability and adoption o

While recent advances in 3D generation have enabled impressive visual synthesis, existing methods often rely on 2D diffusion supervision without explicit mechanisms for geometric consistency, leading to spatial hallucinations such as duplicated structures and misaligned geometry. These issues become more severe in 4D generation, where maintaining consistency across viewpoints and temporal evolution introduces additional challenges, including jitter, identity flicker, and structural drift. We pre

World Action Models (WAMs) improve robot policy learning by jointly modeling actions and future visual observations, using future scene evolution as dense supervision for physically grounded action generation. However, a common design in existing WAMs is to explicitly generate future videos at inference time, incurring substantial computational overhead and hindering real-time closed-loop deployment. GigaWorld-Policy addresses this issue with an action-centered formulation, where future visual d

OpenClaw has emerged as a leading agent framework for complex task automation, yet it faces insufficient cross-platform GUI interaction support and a well-built self-evolution mechanism. These flaws limit its adaptation to diverse device ecosystems and prevent performance improvements through continuous learning from execution experience. To resolve these issues, we propose the Know Deeply, Act Perfectly paradigm for personal assistants, which holds that accumulated user interaction and task-run

Multi-reference-to-audio-video (MR2AV) generation aims to generate coherent audio-video content conditioned on multiple references and textual instructions. Existing benchmarks mainly focus on text-driven generation, single-reference subject preservation, or isolated audio-video alignment, leaving the emerging MR2AV setting largely unexplored. Compared with these settings, MR2AV requires models to jointly reason over multiple references while generating synchronized visual and audio content. Mod

On-policy distillation (OPD) has become a key paradigm in LLM post-training, yet its training dynamics remain poorly understood. We present a systematic study examining the role, pathologies, and regulations of OPD. We first clarify the role of OPD as an exploration catalyst: it steers the student toward correct reasoning paths via dense token-level guidance, without expanding capability ceiling. We confirm this by showing that prompt diversity matters more than per-problem sampling numbers, and

As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve into autonomous agents, the need for unified evaluation infrastructure becomes critical. However, current evaluation pipelines remain highly fragmented and tightly coupled, hindering reproducibility and causing redundant engineering. To address this, we introduce AgentCompass, an open-source, lightweight, and extensible infrastructure for evaluating LLM-based agents. AgentCompass organizes the evaluation process around three independent components, namely B

Validating autonomous driving systems requires diverse, regulation-compliant test scenarios. In simulation-based testing, scenarios are defined as executable scripts. Yet automatically generating such scripts from regulatory descriptions remains an open challenge, and existing approaches face fundamental trade-offs. Retrieval-assemble methods achieve reasonable compilation rates but lack scalability, whereas retrieval-based full-script generation suffers from low compilation success rates. We pr

Embodied cognition requires agents to connect high-level task reasoning with the physical states to be achieved. We introduce Hy-Embodied-RxBrain, an embodied cognition foundation model with joint language-visual reasoning and imagination. Unlike vision-language models that emphasize scene understanding and textual decision making, or generative world models that mainly predict future visual states, RxBrain represents embodied plans in a single planning sequence where language and visual imagina

Healthcare spans high-stakes communication, expert reasoning, and workflow execution, yet specialized LLMs that cover these use cases together remain limited. A healthcare model must handle patient consultation, clinical reasoning over text and images, interactive diagnosis, and electronic health record (EHR) tool use. These capabilities fail in different ways, and a narrow update for one task can degrade another. We present Cura 1T, a healthcare-specialized LLM trained through a human-gated sel

Serial verification gates are a core reliability primitive in LLM harnesses: a candidate answer is returned only if k verifier calls all accept it. Under conditionally independent gates, the recent Odds Law (arXiv:2606.15712) shows that posterior log-odds grow linearly in k, so failure decays exponentially, and states that "a tight theory of partially correlated verifier cascades remains open." This note gives a minimal such theory. Modeling the per-instance false-accept rate on the generator's

Egocentric videos of human manipulation provide scalable supervision for embodied intelligence, yet existing resources rarely combine low-cost continuous capture, manipulation-level structured annotations, and reusable tools for robot learning. We present Open-AoE, an open, community-oriented egocentric manipulation dataset and toolchain spanning the full pipeline from smartphone capture to model training. Its first release contains approximately 2,000 hours of manipulation video collected in na

Agentic language models must learn when to call tools, when to consume tool responses, and when to answer directly. This makes multi-teacher on-policy distillation a natural training strategy: one teacher can specialize in tool calls, another in direct responses, and the student can learn from both on its own generated distribution. We show that this strategy can induce a behavior shift that is invisible from aggregate losses alone. In a two-teacher tool-use setting, vanilla generalized knowledg

Finetuning a pretrained vision-language model (VLM) on robot demonstrations via behavior cloning (BC) has become the standard recipe for vision-language-action (VLA) policies. However, BC finetuning progressively overwrites the pretrained representations that support visual and semantic generalization. Co-training on web image-text data, a common remedy, does not prevent this; it applies language and action losses to separate observations, leaving VLAs with language-action misalignment that stan

Large language models are increasingly deployed as agents, but reliable agentic behavior requires more than next-token prediction. At inference time, it is preferred that an agent can decide whether to proceed with its current reasoning, defer to a stronger model, request additional information, invoke external tools, or abstain under the given setup. Existing approaches address these decisions through prompt-level routing, external orchestration, or task-specific fine-tuning, which primarily re

Background: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to impact health care by transforming workflows and improving outcomes. Patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) are digital tools that use patient-specific information and patient-centered outcomes research to improve health care decision-making. Generative AI is increasingly being incorporated into PC CDS tools. As patient-facing digital tools continue to expand within the health ecosystem, it is important to gath

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The persuasive power of data visualizations can go awry: for instance, in an explainable AI (XAI) context, visualizations can produce over-trust of predictive models. In this paper, we use a crowdsourced study to show that providing accurate (but superfluous or irrelevant) data in a model explanation can, in fact, result in unjustified trust and other positive beliefs about a model, even when the model is patently discriminatory and unfair. Our results suggest that XAI designers and developers n

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