Regulation

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. Results reveal that Canadian students were consisten

Spain’s proposed ‘AI secrecy law’ is putting transparency, taxpayer rights and algorithmic accountability at the centre of Europe’s tax debate ...

These priorities are mostly old policy initiatives that have until now been de-prioritised for months or even years.

In many jurisdictions, academia is at the service of legal practice. Law professors write commentaries that summarize the state of the art of doctrine, chiefly of jurisprudence. In the spirit of a proof of concept, using the guarantee of freedom of assembly in the European Convention on Human Rights, we show that this task can be completely outsourced to large language models. Using standard NLP metrics and an LLM as a judge approach, we develop an evaluation pipeline that works without costly h

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping how agrifood systems function in the United States, yet the role of federal policy in guiding its use, oversight, and broader consequences is still not well defined. This study explores how current U.S. federal AI policies support-or limit-the advancement of agrifood systems by synthesizing evidence from publicly available policy documents. Using a focused search strategy and qualitative content analysis, we reviewed nine federal policy docume

An elite Wall Street law firm has apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing replete with errors created by artificial intelligence, including "hallucinations" that fabricated case citations. The A.I.-generated errors came ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1558#7551)

The elite Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell has told a court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained errors resulting from hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence. Andrew Dietderich, the co-head of t ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1558#7552)

Brussels -- One in three responses to the European Commission's public consultation on stricter tobacco legislation is said to have been generated by artificial intelligence. The allegation -- which is worrying because it also casts doubt o ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1590#7562)

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing raw data, but building and operating FL systems remains difficult due to distributed execution, rapidly evolving frameworks, and privacy and governance requirements. In this paper, we present an empirical study of FL developer challenges by independently analyzing 495 Stack Overflow posts and 9,116 GitHub issues and pull requests from 92 FL-related projects. Using BERTopic-based topic modeling and difficulty indica

The gym could be the key to the 1L year of your dreams. The post The Unexpected Place You Can Improve Your 1L Grades appeared first on Above the Law .

Data-privacy experts said on a recent panel that while state privacy laws regulate what data brokers can collect and sell, those laws often do not extend to the problematic conclusions those companies can infer.

Turns out promising the president $100 million in free legal work creates conflicts on the paying side of the ledger too. The post Skadden Said Its Trump Deal Raised No Ethical Issues. Intel’s Shareholders Disagree. appeared first on Above the Law .

Dixon Q. Dern, a longtime Hollywood attorney who helped shape modern entertainment law through many innovative business deals, died July 19. He was 97. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Dern earned undergraduate and law degrees from Stanford University. He came to Los Angeles as television was becoming a major force in the 1950s, representing major […]

According to new book, Todd Blanche feared the DOJ would spend the next six months 'getting skullfucked' by the courts. The post Todd Blanche Feared Judges Giving It To DOJ In Extremely Uncomfortable Place appeared first on Above the Law .

The country's new law also bans the use of mobile phones in schools.

Markets mature when their contracts become recognizable. The post Enterprise AI Is Quietly Creating Its Own Standard Contract appeared first on Above the Law .

The First Responders Fair RETIRE Act, which ensures federal workers can stay on accelerated mandatory retirement schedules even if they transfer to another due to injury, was signed into law in 2022.

Everyone has a vague notion of 'AI,' but when it comes to discovery, we already built better tech a decade ago. The post Lawyers Learning You Can’t Square Peg AI Into eDiscovery Round Holes appeared first on Above the Law .

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has become the predominant recipe for eliciting test-time scaling in explicit Chain-of-Thought reasoners. Yet this scaling path remains computationally costly, since every intermediate step must be decoded as a language token. Latent reasoning instead carries intermediate computation as continuous vectors and already matches or surpasses explicit CoT at far shorter horizons. Despite this promise, latent reasoners remain largely imitation-bound, whil

In RLHF pipelines, reward scoring blocks policy updates. Slow scoring bottlenecks the entire loop, since no update runs until every rollout gets a score. And yet most setups just default to PyTorch eager mode or torch.compile, no one checks if that's actually fastest. Scoring itself is small. Rollout generation eats far more of a typical RLHF step. But scoring and generation fight over the same CPU and GPU resources, so a faster scoring engine doesn't shrink step time on its own. It mainly frees

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 .

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...

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 .

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

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 .

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

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 .

This paper is a practitioner guide to graph-based workflow pathways for long-running, stateful, multi-step generative AI systems in business processes. Rather than treating LangGraph, a low-level orchestration framework for stateful agents, as a model-quality benchmark target, we present three executable recipes -- SQL analytics with repair loops, agentic retrieval-augmented generation with evidence gating, and human-in-the-loop policy review with interrupt and checkpoint recovery -- to show how

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 .

Professor Bill Hillier was a pioneer of ‘space syntax’ theory which has been influential in universities and industry around the world. In 1976 Bill co-wrote a landmark publication called Space Syntax ...

Everyone agrees competition enforcement should be fair. Agreement gets shakier once fairness starts costing agencies time, discretion, or victories. Competition authorities often warn that procedure should not become an obstacle to enforcement. Fair enough. Antitrust investigations can be slow, document-heavy, and vulnerable to delay tactics. A firm with deep pockets may try to turn “process” ... Competition Law’s Fairness Gap: Why Better Procedure Requires Better Incentives The post Competition

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 .

Practitioners make three prompt-design decisions with almost no controlled evidence behind them: how to format instructions and context (markdown, plain text, prose, or tabular), how many simultaneous instructions a system prompt can carry before compliance degrades, and how much context a model can hold before recall and honesty degrade. We report two controlled experiments crossing all three factors on one held, contamination-free synthetic corpus (the "Book of Veyra," 8,780 uniquely-named ent

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 .

[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 .

The loudest man on the Ninth Circuit is yelling again. The post Federal Judge Asks Supreme Court To Please Start Publicly Humiliating His Colleagues appeared first on Above the Law .

The sites violated United States copyright law, the Department of Justice said.

Box, which has evolved from a cloud storage business into an Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, is targeting the legal – and other regulated sectors ...