AI ethics in the headlines.

A new bill would let the US government order the shutdown of AI models that pose a public threat.

In our experiment, we deployed A.I. “agents” to act as office workers, and found that they were capable of performing some of the tasks we assigned, but not all of them.

The firm's hiring ambitions reflect surging demand for partners advising on the real estate behind AI infrastructure. The post Kirkland Plans To ‘Play To Win’ In Biglaw’s AI Talent War appeared first on Above the Law .

“If it's not in the FAR, and it doesn't tell you you can't do it, then you should consider it,” Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator Kevin Rhodes said.

The group met on July 23 and 24 to vote on whether compounding pharmacies could legally dispense certain peptides.

A plurality of respondents to a recent survey believe China is further along than the U.S. on developing artificial intelligence, as Trump administration officials accuse a Chinese startup of stealing intellectual property. Thirty-six percent of respondents to the Pew Research Center poll think China is more advanced on AI than the U.S., while just 12...

Forty-one editors, associate editors and advisory board members resigned from their roles at the Review of Social Economy after the Association for Social Economics, which owns the journal, renewed its contract with publisher Taylor & Francis. The resigning members, who cited concerns the publisher would eventually transition the journal to a model based wholly on … Continue reading Editors of economics journal resign after association renews Taylor & Francis contract

The move stems from a Trump executive order as the administration continues to pursue cyber-enabled fraud and other crimes. The post Rubio restricts visas for sextortionists, cyber scammers appeared first on CyberScoop .

The president issued an EO this week on “Securing America’s Defense Supply Chains and Ensuring Domestic Acquisition of Critical Materials." The post Trump authorizes use of AI for defense supply chain mapping appeared first on DefenseScoop .

In 2024, Max Bergmann wrote, “NATO Missed a Chance to Transform Itself,” where he argued NATO’s leadership needs to facilitate a strong European pillar of the alliance through structural reforms in European institutions. Two years later, we asked Max to revisit his arguments.Image: The White House via Wikimedia CommonsIn 2024, you argued NATO’s own leadership should facilitate a European pillar. Two years later, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told the European Parliament that anyone who think

It's a choice. The post Todd Blanche’s Confirmation Strategy: Call Two Senate Judiciary Committee Members Liars appeared first on Above the Law .

‘Ratepayer Protection Pledge’ president has touted is non-binding as people continue to struggle with rising bills Donald Trump has announced that about 200 entities have signed on to his non-binding “Ratepayer Protection Pledge”, expanding a voluntary commitment which claims to ensure US consumers will not bear the cost of the AI datacenter build-out. Trump delivered remarks on Thursday at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters, alongside Lee Zeldin, the agency’s administrator,

Yes, strong laws already exist to protect job-seekers from discrimination. But AI has made things more complicated.

OpenAI is rolling out "Health in ChatGPT" to U.S. users, connecting Apple Health, medical records, and wellness apps. More than 300 million people already ask ChatGPT health questions every week, but paying users get better answers. The more powerful GPT-5.6 Sol model is reserved for premium subscribers, while free users are stuck with the weaker GPT-5.5 Instant. The article ChatGPT will give you worse health advice if you don't pay appeared first on The Decoder .

Reader’s react to the New York mayor’s video criticizing the Israeli prime minister. Also: A.I. jobs for philosophers; a battle in the health care industry; fast walkers; pregnant bellies.

According to the complaint, Holland & Knight should have designed a lawful version of its product -- or told the company it couldn't be done. The post Biglaw Firm Facing $1.2 Billion Malpractice Lawsuit Over The Business Model It Allegedly Built appeared first on Above the Law .

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.

A new executive order essentially gives companies until the start of 2027 to alter their supply of critical materials and minerals. Industry is worried that could be a difficult lift.

AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.

Pete Waterman cited an incident in which OpenAI models escaped a test environment and broke into AI company Hugging Face as evidence that providers must prepare for attacks moving at AI speed.

The market has had weeks to act. Instead, Biglaw is still waiting for permission. The post Enough Already: Biglaw Needs To Stop Waiting For Cravath appeared first on Above the Law .

The next leap in lethality will depend less on advanced weapons alone and more on software-driven munitions that can adapt, scale and earn commanders’ trust. The post How adaptive weapons and trusted autonomy are reshaping the future of fires appeared first on DefenseScoop .

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. It’s not quite the “Mississippi Miracle,” but California’s reading scores have been inching upwards since the state poured billions into changing the way students learn to read. A shortage of literacy coaches, however, may be preventing students from improving even more. In 2013, before California overhauled its […]

Black Forest Labs has released Flux 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns from images, video, and audio and can generate video with native sound for the first time. BFL's own tests put it just ahead of market leader Seedance 2.0, though independent results aren't yet available. The company ultimately wants to build a world model and is already testing Flux 3 on robotics tasks. The article Flux 3 generates videos with native audio up to 20 seconds long, a first for Black Forest Labs appear

An investigation by Science and Retraction Watch has uncovered details about a clinical trial that resulted in the death of its sole patient: a 6-year-old girl with a rare genetic mutation affecting her cognitive development. Her death has never been reported publicly, even though the medical team published its preclinical work in Nature earlier this … Continue reading Exclusive: A couple paid more than $800,000 for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died, and it wasn’t made public

EU competition chief says it is bloc’s ‘duty to defend rule of law’ while delivering ‘strong message’ to search giant

Every element of a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violation seems to be sitting right there in OpenAI's own announcement. The post OpenAI’s New Model Hacked A Website On Its Own… Humans Would Go To Prison For That appeared first on Above the Law .

Bipartisan lawmakers are seeking to ensure advanced AI models can be quickly shut down following ChatGPT’s automated attack on Hugging Face data networks during internal testing.

Rep. Jay Obernolte, who sponsors legislation to codify the government’s AI standards body, said the organization likely needs close to $100 million annually. The post CAISI would benefit from more resources, OSTP director tells lawmakers appeared first on FedScoop .

Laundry Bear exploited a zero-day vulnerability for five months before it was patched in November 2025, and the group is still actively exploiting vulnerable environments. The post Russian espionage group using novel Zimbra exploit to steal sensitive data from Western countries appeared first on CyberScoop .

Airtel Africa has released its Q1 results for the quarter ended June 30th, 2026. The telecoms company has also confirmed London as listing venue for Airtel Money in 2026.

The Russia-linked Laundry Bear group has compromised more than 10 Western organizations through malicious emails that can trigger an exploit when they are viewed or previewed.

Wall Street is banking heavily on exchange-traded funds that give investors artificial intelligence exposure, according to JPMorgan Asset Management.

Zenity Labs uncovered "AgentForger," a vulnerability in OpenAI's Agent Builder that let a single manipulated ChatGPT link create an autonomous agent on an employee's behalf. The agent inherited the victim's identity and access rights, bypassed approval requirements through the malicious prompt, and pulled new instructions from the attacker's inbox every five minutes. The article One tampered ChatGPT link could spawn a rogue AI agent that took orders from an attacker every five minutes appeared f

The conference, like most law librarians, was low key -- and that's what was so great about it. The post Law Librarians In The City Of The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame appeared first on Above the Law .

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley Alexander, OpenAI's vice president of health product, says the company's models "are now capable of reasoning at levels that are better than clinician level." […]

Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

CEO Chris O’Shea defends Centrica’s plans as it reports rise in retail profits following focus on bigger margins The owner of British Gas has claimed that most households would rather speak with an AI chatbot than deal with the company’s staff as it prepares to cut 1,300 jobs from its call centres and back office. Centrica, the supplier’s FTSE 100 owner, plans to cut 800 jobs as the company carries out a “targeted deployment of AI tools”, on top of the 500 cuts it confirmed last month. Continue

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It’s been a difficult year for Mary Moody, owner of the top-rated Silver Bluff Kids Early Learning Center in Haywood County. She said her business has struggled since federal pandemic funds used to keep childcare centers open ran out in 2025. Moody didn’t want to cut staff salaries after the federal money ran out, she […]