Regulation

Did your law school or alma mater make the cut? The post The Law Schools Where Starting Salaries For Graduates Exceed Their Student Debt (2026) appeared first on Above the Law .

Clinical biomarker workflows in translational research settings often rely on spreadsheet-driven tracking, manual quality control (QC) reconciliation, and loosely integrated systems, resulting in limited state visibility, delayed reporting, and increased operational risk. These challenges are particularly pronounced in multi-day assays such as Luminex-based quantification of Fragile X Messenger Ribonucleoprotein (FMRP), where HIPAA-compliant data governance, deterministic workflow progression, a

The DOJ's Epstein files reply calls Katie Phang 'outlandish' and 'absurd,' then requests that the court please hold off on those sanctions. The post Todd Blanche’s Brief Has The Tone Of A Kid Yelling ‘That’s Not Fair’ appeared first on Above the Law .

Overturning a decades-old policy, the US government will soon limit international students to no more than four years in the United States unless they can secure an extension from the US government.

The EDPB highlighted new guidance, templates and stakeholder engagement efforts aimed at simplifying GDPR compliance and strengthening regulatory cooperation.

Amílcar Boscán also asked a judge to let him reclaim the copyrights to the song under US copyright law. Source

The release of Kimi K3 , the latest model from Moonshot Labs, a Chinese AI firm founded by a former Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate, has shaken both the AI and political worlds. In an instant, the seemingly comfortable lead held by U.S. frontier AI labs over their Chinese competitors appeared to narrow sharply. K3’s release has rattled the chattering classes in Washington and Silicon Valley. In response, they have begun fighting among themselves. Samuel Hammond, director of AI policy a

[Sponsored] A conversation with Trustpoint.One CEO Christopher Gallagher The post Why Experience Still Matters In An AI-Driven Legal Industry appeared first on Above the Law .

House Oversight chair dumped receipts in letter after law professor bailed on scheduled testimony. The post Comer Throws Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nothing To Hide’ Boast Back At Him With Subpoena Threat appeared first on Above the Law .

LLM-driven autonomous agents are reshaping offensive security. Unlike traditional penetration-testing tooling -- deterministic, narrowly scoped, and operated by trained practitioners -- agentic security tools exhibit \textit{indeterminacy} along three independent dimensions. First, their actions are drawn from a non-deterministic policy whose outputs resist both ex-ante and ex-post explanation, frustrating incident attribution and pre-deployment safety review. Second, their impact is open-ended

The companies hope to follow in the footsteps of SpaceX, which raised $86bn and soared to a $2.1tn valuation after it listed on public markets in June Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Top US AI developers Anthropic and OpenAI cheered when Australia announced it would set new AI rules. Big tech celebrating limits on their Silicon Valley VC-funded free-for-all might seem counterintuitive but there’s a much broader play than just what happens in one relatively small mark

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Not sure vibe coding is ready for legal prime time, at least not yet. The post Vibe Coding For Lawyers: Next Big Thing Or Just A Big Dud? appeared first on Above the Law .

Regulator urges health service to ensure communications about benefits are ‘clearly and appropriately labelled’

The private equity firm sold its majority stake in June. The post Blackstone Divested From Spanx appeared first on Above the Law .

Active Inference (AIF) frames adaptive behavior as the minimization of expected free energy (EFE), combining epistemic and pragmatic objectives within a single variational principle. We frame AIF as policy optimization and show that, for closed-loop control policies, EFE minimization can be formulated as a convex Markov decision process (MDP). In this formulation, the pragmatic terms are linear in the predictive state marginals and therefore equivalent to reward maximization in a latent MDP, whi

The bill also bans the use of mobile phones in high schools.

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China is the first country to enact substantial legislation on AI relationships in an effort to protect people from the worst aspects of digital companions

Post-training with evaluator feedback on policy-induced samples serves as a major mechanism for improving large language models. As policies improve, these sampled responses become close in quality. These close candidates create a bottleneck for policy optimization: collapsed relative evaluator score gaps yield weak or misleading policy supervision. We theoretically characterize why these gaps matter through a probability allocation view, showing that the directional gain of shifting probability

Enterprise strategic decision support requires AI systems that are not only accurate, but also uncertainty-aware, risk-calibrated, explainable, and governance-compliant. This paper proposes TRUST-ESD, a risk-calibrated and governance-aware framework for enterprise decision support under uncertainty. TRUST-ESD evaluates feasible counterfactual strategies through predictive utility estimation, conformal uncertainty calibration, CVaR-based downside-risk scoring, risk-memory retrieval, policy-as-cod

Major US law firm, Willkie, is partnering with OpenAI to develop ‘AI solutions across the firm’s legal and business operations, including a firmwide rollout of ...

European and US banks inadvertently transmitted customer data to ad platforms via tracking pixels, raising serious compliance, security, and privacy concerns.

What GAO Found GAO identified 117 cybersecurity regulations established by 37 federal agencies for private entities, spanning nine critical infrastructure sectors. Most of those regulations either contain the same kind of reporting requirement applicable to a sector or the same reporting requirement as at least one other regulation, which may lead to duplication. Specifically, 80 of the 117 regulations (about 70 percent) had at least 125 total reporting requirements (see figure), with some regul

Higher education minister Buti Manamela tasks the National Skills Authority to assess MICT SETA’s Accounting Authority.

In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump's "rate payer protection pledge" that's meant to […]

The release of the Chinese AI model Kimi 3 is forcing Washington and Silicon Valley to reckon with another sign of intense competition with Beijing, renewing questions over how to curb the country’s technology capabilities. Kimi 3, released late last week by the China-based firm Moonshot AI, quickly sent shockwaves through industry and policy circles,...

UK listed law firm Gateley yesterday (22 July) announced that CEO Rod Waldie is stepping down from 1 August for health reasons, following revelations first revealed by Roll on Friday […] The post Gateley’s CEO stands down following business services cuts appeared first on Legal IT Insider .

The company will demonstrate how organisations can build scalable AI infrastructure while improving cost control, governance and data sovereignty.

Anthropic will pour another $20 million into Public First Action, the nonprofit organization advocating for safeguards on artificial intelligence. The contribution, announced by the company Wednesday, brings the Claude-maker's total funds given to the group to $40 million. Public First Action is the policy arm of Public First, a super PAC backing candidates who support...

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Senior leaders must treat AI governance as their own daily job, not something the technology committee handles quarterly, write Peter Pronovost, Justin Norden, and Kedar Mate.

Introduction The permissibility of conscientious objection (CO) in healthcare presents a complex balance of benefits and harms, and philosophers disagree on whether it should be permitted at all. For example, consequentialists such as Udo Schuklenk argue that healthcare professionals should never be allowed to object, a position known as the ‘incompatibility thesis’. 1 Steve Clarke, however, believes that there is a positive consequentialist case for permitting CO in healthcare. 2 Th

The article examines China’s vaccination policy, focusing particularly on childhood immunisation and pandemic vaccines. Although China’s laws require individuals to engage in the vaccination decision-making process, the policy does not enforce mandatory vaccination through penalties. Instead, it emphasises informed decision-making, allowing and supporting individuals to choose whether to vaccinate or adopt other preventive measures based on their best health interests. The legal fram

House Republicans Move to Codify the Definition of Biological Sex jessica.blake@… Wed, 07/22/2026 - 03:00 AM Democrats argue the bill will actually strip LGBTQ+ students of civil rights protections, going beyond what the Supreme Court intended. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

Publication date: Available online 20 July 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence Author(s): Vasyl G. Kremen, Oleh M. Spirin, Oleksandr I. Liashenko, Svitlana H. Lytvynova, Yurii I. Malovanyi, Olha P. Pinchuk, Oleksandra M. Sokolyuk, Serhiy O. Semerikov

Publication date: November 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 232 Author(s): Harold Paredes-Frigolett, Andreas Pyka

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arXiv:2607.18424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated analyses of privacy policies enable large-scale assessments of transparency in digital ecosystems, yet existing auditing pipelines remain predominantly English-centric. This limits their ability to systematically evaluate multilingual environments, as in the European Union, where many services disclose privacy practices only in local languages. This paper examines whether large language models (LLMs) can extend privacy policy analysis bey

arXiv:2607.18459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid improvement of AI systems has intensified debate about humanity's economic, political, social, and existential future. As AI reshapes expectations about what lies ahead, policy choices and institutional responses will play a crucial role in determining who benefits, who bears the costs, and whether the most serious risks can be mitigated. Africa remains relatively overlooked in these discussions, partly because it is largely a consumer ra