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Government AI moves fast, with guardrails.

A Latham practice chair says the professionals made sure he didn't embarrass himself on camera. The post This Biglaw Partner Got A Crash Course In Comedy From Larry David appeared first on Above the Law .

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that the San Francisco startup says matches or exceeds models several times its size. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with eight billion active parameters per token, is compact enough to run on a single Nvidia DGX Spark desktop system, and […] This story continues at The Next Web

The White House has agreed to an ethics provision in a cryptocurrency regulation bill amid a final push to pass the legislation in the Senate. The provision would bar all federal officials from offering or issuing digital assets, with the Department of Justice (DOJ) tasked with enforcing the measure, an industry source told The Hill...

The first-of-its-kind incident involved OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and another unreleased model

Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.

Chris Fall was appointed to helm the Center for AI Standards and Innovation in April and has been at the Commerce Department since December 2025.

It was first spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra, who wrote in a post on X that TikTok was testing the feature with "some US creators." Source

The department’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office released its latest, annual UAP caseload analysis this week. The post Pentagon investigating mysterious UAP event reported by the Navy near Virginia’s coast appeared first on DefenseScoop .

State lawmakers passed a bill requiring data centers to disclose energy and water usage

Accuracy isn’t just about pinpointing the correct answer. It’s also about being able to acknowledge when there is no answer to be found. The post The One Thing You Didn’t Think To Look For In Legal AI appeared first on Above the Law .

A field experiment with 1,559 Pakistani judges found that the AI assistant JudgeGPT boosted case resolution by 6.3 percent. The catch: only judges who got hands-on training saw gains. Without it, the effect mostly disappeared. The researchers estimate a return of up to $38.50 per dollar invested. The article An AI system helped Pakistani judges clear massive backlogs at $38.50 return per dollar invested appeared first on The Decoder .

San Francisco-based Gritt has exited stealth with just over $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding to deploy AI-powered robotic systems on large-scale construction sites, starting with solar farms. The $26 million Series A was led by Obvious Ventures, with Union Square Ventures and Active Impact Investments also participating, following an earlier pre-seed […] This story continues at The Next Web

Pat Gelsinger wants to pave the way to ever more powerful artificial intelligence using tiny beams of light.

Ukraine’s expanding use of drones at all ranges has changed the war’s momentum. This episode examines how Kyiv is reaching deeper into Russian territory, disrupting operations and logistics as well as energy infrastructure. How is Russia adapting (or not)? Can these strikes produce lasting advantages on the battlefield? Will this force Russia to escalate? Mike Kofman and Dara Massicot join Ryan to discuss.This episode is brought to you by Booz Allen. Learn more at warontherocks.com/boozallen.Ima

A Russian-speaking actor, "Trim," dismantled publicly available frontier models and integrated them with offensive security tools.

The messy approach to U.S. AI regulation reflects both the rapid speed of model cyber capabilities and the White House’s “education” over the past two years, experts said. The post Where’s the Trump administration line on AI regulation? appeared first on CyberScoop .

Torture memo thug appears on Fox News to casually threaten the NYC mayor -- and all of us. The post John Yoo Wants DOJ To Investigate Mamdani For Crime He Literally Did Not Commit appeared first on Above the Law .

Defense and industry leaders outline how centralized accountability, industrial base funding, and gaming-engine floor training are modernizing naval shipyards. The post How technology and acquisition reform are propelling Navy submarine production appeared first on DefenseScoop .

As Texas schools face at least $600 million in federal funding cuts, multiple mental health programs, particularly those implemented in response to the pandemic and mass shootings, are at risk of losing funding. School programs focused on chronic absenteeism, mental wellness and crisis services that were created in response to the Uvalde school shooting, as […]

Anne Lord Bailey, who leads VA’s Strategic Initiatives Lab, said veterans who have used immersive tech have reported therapeutic benefits that extend beyond the conditions being treated by the headsets.

The Tour de France is reckoning with the impacts of climate change.

Sila, the battery materials company formerly known as Sila Nanotechnologies, has raised $300 million in a private equity round led by Atreides Management and Sutter Hill Ventures to expand its silicon anode manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, Washington. 8VC, Bessemer Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, and T Rowe Price also participated, alongside existing investors including In-Q-Tel, […] This story continues at The Next Web

The company is supporting a lighter-touch proposal to regulate the technology than one backed by Anthropic.

Heavy AI users are 10 percentage points more likely to worry about their own job than light users are

Courtroom View Network is a great example of using AI appropriately and in its proper place and combining it with non-AI tools. The post Courtroom View Network: Learning Trial Skills By Watching Real Lawyers In Real Trials appeared first on Above the Law .

Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.

The U.S. war with Iran has had political, economic, and military implications that spread far beyond the Middle East. We asked five experts to assess how the war with Iran has affected U.S. bilateral relations with key countries that illustrate some of the global ramifications: South Korea, India, Ukraine, France, and the United Kingdom.Read more below. Jenny Town Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of 38 NorthSouth Korea has resisted aiding U.S. military operations to forcefull

L'astronaute française Sophie Adenot, actuellement à bord de l'ISS, s'est servie d'un robot de cuisine destiné à être utilisé dans l'espace. Pour l'instant assez sommaire, cette invention française nommée Food Processor prétend pouvoir servir lors de missions bien plus lointaines.

From extreme heat and wildfires to intense flooding, America's summer camps are facing a new reality.

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.

On Tuesday, a group of the world’s most powerful investors finished buying a company most people have never heard of. The price tag explains why it matters. The largest data-centre deal ever The AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners completed their purchase of all the equity in Aligned Data Centers. The deal […] This story continues at The Next Web

London-based robotics startup Humanoid has raised $152 million in a Series A round led by Prime Movers Lab, the venture firm behind Figure AI’s $39 billion valuation, pushing Humanoid’s own valuation above $1 billion. Bosch, Schaeffler, Aglaé Ventures, the investment arm of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, and Taiwan’s Fubon Financial also participated. The round brings […] This story continues at The Next Web

U.S. and Asia led the way as the firm's profits climbed double digits. The post No Merger Needed: Linklaters Posts Strong Financial Results appeared first on Above the Law .

The bipartisan Federal Improvement in Technology Procurement Act would raise purchase thresholds and allow for pre-payments on cloud services. The post Bill to modernize federal procurement passes House after stalling last Congress appeared first on FedScoop .

Block on Tuesday launched Buzz, a free, open-source workspace meant to give people and AI agents a Slack-like service for The post Block built a Slack for AI agents — and gave each one its own passport appeared first on The New Stack .

States have made steady progress including students with disabilities in mainstream classrooms, an independent federal report finds, but lawmakers and advocates worry that headway will be lost as federal special education offices move from the Department of Education to Health and Human Services. Released this month, the Government Accountability Office report shows the number of […]

The House Intelligence Committee advanced its fiscal 2027 authorization legislation Monday. The post House intel bill includes provisions on state and local threat intelligence, election security, AI appeared first on CyberScoop .

The president has had the government take shares in all sorts of corporations. This approach would be particularly bad for the A.I. industry.

[Sponsored] In this series of definitions, we’ll explore what it looks like for AI to run unchecked in a business and how managers can establish control. The post The Legal Tech-To-English Dictionary (2.0): Working With AI In A Professional Environment appeared first on Above the Law .