Regulation

Brussels has developed a curious theory of digital privacy. Anonymous search queries need audits, screening, and a security cordon. Your messages, microphone, and screen can make do with a checkbox. That is the logic running through two decisions the European Commission adopted last week involving the same company, under the same law, on the same ... Europe’s Privacy Paradox: Fort Knox for Search Data, a Checkbox for Your Phone The post Europe’s Privacy Paradox: Fort Knox for Search Data, a Chec

From Anthropic’s $40 million political push to Meta’s campaign against state laws, the major AI players are taking sharply different approaches.

A bill that seeks to mitigate data centers’ impacts on Americans’ electric bills is gaining steam in the House, as lawmakers face pressure to act in the face of sharp backlash to the sprawling AI infrastructure. The bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act would require states to “consider” standards that put the costs on tech companies, rather...

Anthropic has doubled down on its position as the AI company pushing hardest for industry regulation , announcing on July 21 that it plans to donate another $20 million to Public First Action, a political group that advocates for government-imposed safeguards on AI. The contribution brings Anthropic’s total donations to the group to $40 million. It comes as the midterm elections in the U.S. draw closer and AI legislation remains a political hot button. “We’ve long argued that frontier AI compani

From Anthropic’s $40 million political push to Meta’s campaign against state laws, the major AI players are taking sharply different approaches.

From Anthropic’s $40 million political push to Meta’s campaign against state laws, the major AI players are taking sharply different approaches.

FinregE, the End-to-End Regulatory Operating System (FinregE ROS), has published a strategic analysis of the UK’s AI Adoption Plan 2026, providing a roadmap for financial institutions to navigate the regulator's requirements.

The co-chair of a key Democratic House panel on AI is joined by a Republican on legislation that would authorize the government to shut down or throttle risky AI models.

For 18 days in June, two of America’s most capable AI models went dark worldwide, not for technical or business reasons, but because the U.S. government ordered it. On June 12, 2026, the Commerce Department informed Anthropic that its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models could no longer be provided to any foreign person without a license, and the company concluded that compliance meant shutting the models down for everyone. Public access to Fable 5 was restored on June 30.The United States doesn’t have a

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From 9 to 11 June 2026, senior policymakers and regulators from Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda gathered in Nairobi for the East Africa Regional Data ...

arXiv:2607.19699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of generative AI (GenAI) in higher education has prompted urgent debates surrounding academic integrity and ethical use. This study examines cross-cultural differences in student perceptions of GenAI use, comparing responses from students at Canadian and South Korean universities. Using a scenario-based survey administered in Fall 2024, we analyzed how students judged the ethicality and rule compliance of AI-assisted coding practices. Resu

Democrats and Republicans are haggling about the Clarity Act, a major bill pushed by the crypto industry, as it moves closer to a Senate vote.

BackgroundVibe coding—generating software through natural-language prompts to large language models without reviewing the underlying code—has moved rapidly from consumer technology into peer-reviewed clinical applications. By early 2026, clinicians had published vibe-coded teaching tools, a validated clinical nomogram, and an end-to-end omics platform built in under 10 minutes for under two dollars. Collins Dictionary named vibe coding its 2025 Word of the Year. No governance framework currently

The United States lacks a rigorous, routinized approach to managing foreign policy crises. The Wachenheim Center for Peace and Security has developed a set of Crisis Response Playbooks and a Crisis ...

Research finds that knowledge workers now evaluate companies less on what AI can do and more on the transparency and accountability behind how it’s deployed.

DOJ Files Childish Brief, Begs Judge Not To Take Its Allowance: The $1,000 a day fine Todd Blanche would really like to avoid. Heartbreaking: DOJ Lawyers Used To Have To Follow Ethics Rules : While the current DOJ argues that government lawyers should be immune from professional responsibility, over 500 former Justice Department attorneys filed a brief explaining that they never had issues serving the government ethically . So Much For Nothing To Hide : House Oversight threatens Alan Dershowitz

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ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott said the company is becoming increasingly important as businesses deploy more autonomous AI agents.

A top White House official accused a Chinese startup on Wednesday of improperly using Anthropic's latest model and accessing restricted Nvidia chips to develop its new Kimi model. Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said the administration has information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable to produce...

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The issue isn't quite as simple as it seems. The post A Class Action Lawsuit Will Determine Whether Nintendo Customers Are Entitled To Tariff Refunds appeared first on Above the Law .

The nearly party line vote moves the unusually contentious measure forward after it earlier stalled in both chambers of Congress.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's college memories gave the actor a story he'll never stop telling. The post Matt Damon Still Can’t Believe He Was Ketanji Brown Jackson’s College Scene Partner appeared first on Above the Law .

“[There are] provisions in this bill that some folks disagree with, but understand that this is just a single step in a long process,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., said on the chamber floor today.

Tech policy leadership in the White House say Moonshot AI illegally trained its model off of Anthropic’s Fable.

Popular with Republican voters, not so much with Republican Senators... The post Senate Democrats Reintroduce Supreme Court Term Limits Bill, And The Polling Has Never Been Friendlier appeared first on Above the Law .

Hacking of Hugging Face shows we do not seem to have reliable ways to curb extremely powerful AI systems Last week Hugging Face – a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets – was hacked . After it reported the incident to law enforcement, few would have predicted what came next: the culprits were revealed to be AI agents from OpenAI, which had broken out of containment and were acting of their own accord. Shakeel Hashim is the editor of Transformer , a publication about the

A 10-year renewal of the cybersecurity information-sharing law known as CISA 2015 passed as part of the House's fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill.

Commerce panel approves legislation barring companies with significant Chinese ownership from US market

Background: Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a major global health challenge. While nonpharmacological therapies are recommended, patient compliance is often hindered by kinesiophobia. Virtual reality (VR) offers an immersive, distraction-based approach, but the comparative effectiveness of different VR modalities remains unclear. Objective: The aim of the study is to compare and rank the efficacy of different VR-based training modalities on pain intensity, disability, and kinesiophobia in patien

The Trump administration announced it plans to shift some of the $200 billion in annual funding for research and development away from academic institutions to focus on individual scientists. In a memo released Tuesday, Michael Kratisos, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, argued the framework put forth following World...

The firm's AI platform is called Wendell after Wendell Willkie. They could do with some of his advice. The post Willkie Farr And OpenAI Building Proprietary AI Named After Guy Who Would Not Have Cut A Deal With Trump appeared first on Above the Law .

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) is promising as it removes the external teacher required by on-policy distillation (OPD), yet it still needs asymmetric information between teacher and student to ensure that the self-teacher provides a stronger learning signal than the student. Existing methods create this asymmetry either through privileged answers or visual evidence. We ask whether both can be removed, yielding a simpler form of OPSD driven purely by input conditioning. For this purpose, we

The following MBW op/ed comes from John Meller, a Partner in the Entertainment practice at law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Source

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NTIA would have to publish states’ semiannual reports

The Trump DOJ claims government lawyers need immunity from professional consequences. Past DOJ attorneys disagree. The post Over 500 Former DOJ Lawyers Explain How They *Somehow* Managed Jobs Without Massive Ethical Violations appeared first on Above the Law .

By reducing regulatory burdens, the FCC “is taking a critical step in allowing for continued American innovation and space superiority,” according to the Commercial Space Federation.

The VA’s Enterprise Software Asset Management (eSAM) initiative and software license inventory project lack governance frameworks and planning, per a new GAO report. The post VA software management woes linked in part to CIO vacancy, watchdog says appeared first on FedScoop .