From the institutes, labs and civil-society groups.

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

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 .

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

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

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

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.

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

FIFA's semi-automated refereeing system promises neutrality but brims with bias. It's widely despised yet embraced by elites. It is, in other words, a lot like AI.

datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub Out of curiosity I decided to see if I could find a useful illustration of the impact of coding agents and Opus 4.5 class models on my own output. The best I've found so far is this GitHub chart of frequency of code changes to my Datasette open source project: The big spike in activity at the end aligns with Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Tags: github , ai , datasette , generative-ai , llms , ai-assisted-programming , coding-agents

CSET’s Colin Shea-Blymyer shared his expert insight in an article published by Bloomberg. The article examines growing concerns in Washington over the use of "distillation" by Chinese AI companies to train models using outputs from leading US systems, and the resulting debate over intellectual property, competition, and national security in the global AI race. The post Washington Is Looking to Keep China From Training Its AI on US Models appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technol

My keynote at ICML 2026

Private credit has become the financial system’s latest designated villain: opaque, fast-growing, and—depending on the headline—one bad quarter away from dragging insurers, banks, and retirees down with it. For the past two years, warnings about life insurers’ private-credit investments have become a staple of financial commentary. In 2024, the International Monetary Fund cautioned that private ... Private Credit, Public Panic: Why Life Insurers Are Stronger Than the Headlines Suggest The post P

EPIC submitted testimony on Monday to the D.C. Council Committee on Public Works & Operations urging them to further strengthen B26-0670, the DC Government Data Privacy and Protection Act of 2026.

The U.S.–South Korea relationship is well institutionalized, rooted in shared values, mutual aims of national security, and cutting-edge business cooperation. Despite external and internal ...

FIRST Global Joins the UN ITU AI Skills Coalition; FIRST Global and XRP Kits Offer New Agentic AI module powered by FYI.AI For Student Robotics Teams Worldwide GENEVA, Switzerland — July 8, 2026 — At the AI for Good Global Summit hosted... The post FIRST Global and Experiential Bring Agentic AI Learning Experience to 190+ Countries, Advancing Robotics Education appeared first on AI for Good .

Europe suffered an unprecedented heatwave this June, with debilitating effects felt across various walks of life: thousands of deaths, particularly among the elderly, individuals and families suffering in “heat-trap” apartments, hospitals full and caught unprepared, school closures, and productivity losses. Adaptation measures are indispensable for coping with these soaring temperatures, which have cost lives and severely affected people’s well-being. However, rights-based litigation involving a

EPIC, the Consumer Federation of America, and Fairplay submitted comments on Monday in response to the Colorado Department of Law’s request for stakeholder input ahead of potential rulemaking for the state’s recently passed bills on chatbot safety and automated decision-making technology (ADMT) in consequential decisions.

Members of the Senate are taking steps to regulate and restrict how the Department of Defense develops and uses AI in its operations. The post Civilian Protection in the Age of Military AI: What Congress’s New Legislative Proposals Reveal About Emerging Safeguards appeared first on Just Security .

Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.

A public resource tracking all the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions. The post Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions appeared first on Just Security .

In Prajwala v. Union of India, the Supreme Court held that victims of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation have a right to rehabilitation under Article 23 read with the right to dignity under Article 21. While the judgment has been celebrated for its three-dimensional dignity framework, it is a missed opportunity to articulate a constitutional basis for protecting the rights of sex workers. The Court's dignity framework – calibrated against objectification in trafficking – is insuffici

A new scaling law; AI job fears fade; Dementia in retreat++

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On 7 July 2026, Mr Justice Nicklin handed down judgment following the lengthy trial of the misuse of private information and breach of confidence claims brought by seven Claimants against Associated Newspapers Limited (“Associated”), the publisher of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and MailOnline; Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon OBE & Ors v Associated Newspapers […]

The ‘worst’ and ‘best possible’ job at once: what it’s like to dedicate your life to documenting crimes against humanity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

According to information from the STEM Education Promotion Alliance (SEPA) on July 11th, the two Vietnamese teams excellently won second place in the Junior and Senior categories of the Robotics for Good Youth Challenge 2026 Global Finals. The post Vietnam won two second prizes at the global finals of the Robotics for Good 2026 competition appeared first on AI for Good .