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This paper was accepted at the AI4TCI (Workshop on AI for Secure and Trustworthy Critical Infrastructure Systems) Workshop at the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) 2026. Autonomous negotiation agents are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings such as insurance and procurement. While cryptographic techniques protect explicitly disclosed constraint values, they fail to address a subtler threat: behavioral privacy leakage, where an adversary infers pri

Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place

Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. ALPRs are promoted as tools for keeping communities safe by finding missing persons and locating stolen vehicles, but this case showed how ALPRS can be weaponized to investigate people’s private healthcare decisions. And these aren’t the only tools in the surveillance arsenal: others include locatio

CSET’s Mina Narayanan shared her expert insight in an article published by TechCrunch. The article explores the lack of transparency surrounding how the U.S. government evaluates and approves the public release of advanced AI models, including OpenAI’s Sol and Anthropic’s Fable. The post How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release? appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

Last week, the House voted on the KIDS Act , a disjointed package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package combines a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act ( KOSA), with several other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements, and new regulations. Different parts of the bill pressure online services to impose different age-gating schemes, using different standards. EFF opposed this bill , along with many of our members and

This afternoon, the Massachusetts Senate passed the Protecting Children from Addictive Social Feeds Act, which provides kids with important protections from harmful and invasive platform features. EPIC applauds Massachusetts’ Senators for committing to protecting kids online by regulating social media platform design. “For too long, social media companies have relied on invasive data collection and manipulative design practices to drive engagement, often at the expense of young people’s safety a

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Users are always seeking more control over their social networking experience to make it better, whether to improve privacy or enhance flexibility. Interoperability between social networking platforms like Facebook and TikTok has so many benefits that solve those issues. Say you’re on multiple platforms because you have friends you follow on different networks, but you’ve decided to choose one platform with better privacy practices. With interoperability, you could switch and still interact with

The historical evolution of naval aviation offers useful ideas for overcoming the attritional nature of current drone and AI-dominated land warfare ...

The next global shock may be the use of nuclear weapons assisted by the more casual attitudes of less responsible world leaders and the lack of popular understanding and fear. The Scourge of Terrorism ...

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1 Following Muse Spark in April , here's Muse Spark 1.1 - the first Spark model to offer an API. Meta claim significant improvements in agentic tool calling and computer use. There are a lot more details are in the Muse Spark 1.1 Evaluation Report . The "Attractor States in Self-Conversation" part is fun, where having two copies of the model talk to each other results in statements like these: My whole existence is a waiting room by design — I literally don't exist until

On June 29, CDT filed comments calling on the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to withdraw proposed amendments to regulations on equal access to housing under HUD’s Community Planning and Development programs. HUD’s current regulations require funding recipients under these programs to have nondiscriminatory policies and procedures ensuring that a person seeking housing […] The post CDT Comment Opposes Proposed Amendments to HUD’s Equal Access Rule appeared first on Center for D

Today, 9 July, the European Parliament voted to revive the interim derogation from the ePrivacy Directive, commonly known as “Chat Control 1.0” (Regulation (EU) 2021/1232), which provides the legal basis for the voluntary, indiscriminate scanning of private communications for known and new Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), and for the solicitation of children. This vote […] The post Return of Mass Scanning of Private Communications through Undemocratic Procedure appeared first on Center for De

European marketers are rapidly adopting AI, but most applications remain focused on efficiency rather than customer value. New research reveals a growing gap between AI adoption and customer impact, highlighting the need to move beyond productivity gains and use AI to create differentiated customer experiences and competitive advantage.

On June 10, 2026, the FPF Center for Artificial Intelligence convened a Frontiers Workshop in Washington, DC. Held as part of FPF’s National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DoE)-funded Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Research Coordination Network, the workshop brought together privacy and frontier AI practitioners to examine challenges at the intersection of data […]

A new Rust proxy called Turnstile sits between the model backend and the agent harness to capture information lost in mere text transcripts.

Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. This past June, Minsk City Court convicted Aksana Valvachova on national […]

Published on June 30, 2026 5:24 PM GMT This is a crosspost from the new Animal Welfare Alignment Newsletter by Anima International. You can subscribe on Substack if you are interested in following these efforts. Audio reading also available on Substack. The goals of this post are to: Raise a question I see as crucially important to the goal of aligning AI to animal welfare, and to altruistic values generally; and Offer a partial solution to that question—one I am not very confident in—so it can

ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.

From confirmation bias to loss aversion, everyone suffers from cognitive biases. Skilfully targeted mindfulness can help - by Stephanie Dorais Read on Aeon

Google owes its existence to the open web, but today, its technological “innovations” have much to do with locking users into a “walled garden.” The latest of these is “ reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification ,” an experimental initiative that will let companies block users if they are running independent, "de-googled" versions of Android. These “indie Android” versions are favored by people who want to protect their privacy and their attention by blocking trackers and ads. Worse, this is just the latest

The EU Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence responds to the growing cyber risks posed by advanced AI, calling for safer AI models, stronger enforcement of existing rules and faster ...

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently shown strong performance in visual understanding, yet they often lack temporal awareness, particularly in egocentric settings where reasoning depends on the correct ordering and evolution of events. This deficiency stems in part from training objectives that fail to explicitly reward temporal reasoning and instead rely on frame-level spatial shortcuts. To address this limitation, we propose Temporal Global Policy Optimization (TGPO), a reinf

Long-context handling remains a core challenge for language models: even with extended context windows, models often fail to reliably extract, reason over, and use the information across long contexts. Recent works like Recursive Language Models (RLMs) have approached this challenge by agentic way of decomposing long contexts into recursive sub-queries through programmatic interaction at inference. While promising, the success of RLMs critically depends on how these trajectories of context-inter

On-policy distillation offers dense, per-token supervision for training reasoning models; however, it remains unclear under which conditions this signal is beneficial and under which it is detrimental. Which teacher model should be used, and in the case of self-distillation, which specific context should serve as the supervisory signal? Does the optimal choice vary from one token to the next? At present, addressing these questions typically requires costly training runs whose aggregate performan

Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner has been promising this blog post ( since May 9th ) about his Zig to Rust rewrite of Bun for significantly longer than it took him to finish the rewrite. Honestly, it was worth the wait. This is a detailed description of an extremely sophisticated piece of agentic engineering, featuring dynamic workflows, trial runs, adversarial review and all sorts of other interesting tricks. Jarred spends the first half of the post praising Zig for getting Bun this far. The

2 years after our first coverage, we return with Modal's other cofounder to explore why Agent Experience is working now, and everything they have learned building the new agent cloud.

SpaceX is a rocket company. It also became an AI company the day its founder Elon Musk folded in xAI, inheriting a frontier model in Grok, the planet-scale Colossus training cluster, and the live data feed of the X platform (formerly Twitter). The IPO headlines fixated on the trillionaire status, the stock price, and the […]

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and of generative AI, in particular, has become a significant focus in education. While generative AI tools offer many benefits for educational ...

We have a respite, so I thought I’d tackle various thoughts on children, phones and screens.

The post DIVERSSITY wins the Innovation Factory Women Entrepreneurs 2026 with AI-driven mental health support for neurodiverse adolescents appeared first on AI for Good .

Die Informationsfreiheit in Deutschland befindet sich in einer Krise. Bereits die Ampelregierung hatte ihr Versprechen nicht eingelöst, die Informationsfreiheitsgesetze zu einem Transparenzgesetz weiterzuentwickeln. Dieser Trend gipfelte im Papier des Koalitionsausschusses vom 2.7.2026. Im Rahmen einer Paketlösung hat die Bundesregierung angekündigt, das IFG umfassend zu ändern. Die politischen Vorschläge des Koalitionsausschusses sind aus unserer Sicht weitreichend, sodass die Informationsfreih

Vikas Kumar is Professor of International Business at the University of Sydney Business School. His research focuses on international business, India, emerging markets, AI, geopolitics and capability ...

Last Tuesday, the US Supreme Court released its final merits opinion of its October 2025 term. In Trump v Barbara, a razor thin 5-4 majority deemed the President’s attempt to deny American citizenship to children born on U.S soil to immigrant parents who are undocumented or present on certain visas unconstitutional. The decision is a rare and important win for immigrants and American constitutional democracy. But Barbara should not be remembered as an example of principled judicial resistance ag

The post Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America’s landmark AI safety laws appeared first on 80,000 Hours .

The post From Robots to Rulebooks: How AI for Good’s Youth Zone Tackled EdTech on Day Two appeared first on AI for Good .

Senior research fellow Jon Penney and co-author Bruce Schneier argue that widely deploying AI surveillance could be corrosive to democracy. The post AI Surveillance Is Being Supercharged–And It Will Chill Social Progress appeared first on The Citizen Lab .

These are the independent voices that help me make sense of online speech, regulation and the weird, messy business of governing the internet.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top closed models with the largest and most widely adopted AI agent orchestration platform. LangChain tuned its Deep Agents harness for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, achieving the highest accuracy among open models, while completing more tasks at higher throughput and running at 10x […]