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The Hugging Face breach shows there is a gap in federal policy. The frameworks to govern autonomous AI already exist—there just needs to be the desire to apply them. The post OpenAI’s rogue AI agent shows why we need federal rules for autonomous systems appeared first on CyberScoop .

Identity document (ID) authentication relies on the structural integrity of complex, high-frequency security patterns. However, advanced Generative AI models can now inject localized, high-fidelity manipulations, creating deceptive attacks that bypass standard verification. Training robust image forensic models to detect these anomalies is hindered by privacy regulations, forcing reliance on synthetic templates lacking the intricate visual patterns of real IDs. To bridge this domain gap, we intr

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has renewed interest in agent-based modeling (ABM). However, current LLM-based ABM research faces several key challenges: modeling evolving agent-environment interactions, enabling flexible counterfactual reasoning, and automating simulation workflows for scientific research. In this paper, we propose Eco3S, a socio-economic system simulation framework for economic research and policy analysis that addresses these challenges through three key

Energy regulator’s plan would mean upfront fees or financial security via letters of credit, bonds or cash deposits Datacentre projects in Britain will be forced to pay hundreds of millions of pounds to plug into the power grid under proposals to tackle a growing electricity connection logjam . Ofgem, the sector watchdog, said it was taking action to discourage “speculative” datacentre projects from causing unnecessary delays to the grid connection queue, which includes hospitals, schools and ho

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Publication date: October 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 8 Author(s): Matthias Tröbinger, Anil R. Doshi, Sen Chai

arXiv:2607.25648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public services face growing pressure to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) to close the gap between rising demand and falling resources. That pressure has intensified with general-purpose AI (GPAI): AI built on large language models that can be directed by prompt alone to perform an effectively unbounded range of tasks. We argue that the properties that make these models attractive - their generality, accessibility, and low deployment cost - under

arXiv:2508.03037v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artists occupy a paradoxical position in generative AI. Their own work trains models that now compete with them, replicate their styles, and reshape the creative economy they inhabit. Yet whether artist concerns achieve proportional representation in the public discourse that shapes AI governance remains an open empirical question. We mapped the semantic landscape of public AI-art discourse from 2013 to 2025, drawing on 1,736 text chunks

Federal-state stoush comes as rating agency warns that electricity bills could skyrocket Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Queensland and the Northern Territory have rejected the federal government’s plans to mandate that AI datacentres use renewable power, rubbishing Anthony Albanese’s proposals to regulate the booming technology as “underdeveloped ideas that hand increased power to Canberra”. The latest federal-s

Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX, is challenging a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in Minnesota

Meta chief warns against ‘regulatory capture’ of American rules on the technology

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has launched a practical framework to guide pension scheme trustees, advisers, and administrators through responsible AI leadership.

Healthcare systems are rapidly embedding adaptive and generative AI into core clinical processes. The integration of Artificial Intelligence into Clinical Decision Support Systems (AI-CDSS) highlights a fundamental transformation within healthcare delivery. This transformation enables advanced predictive analytics, multimodal data integration, and real-time augmentation of clinical decisions. However, AI introduces systemic, ethical, operational, and governance risks that challenge traditional h

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as synthetic users, stand-ins for human respondents whose simulated answers feed product, policy, and market decisions. We ask when this substitution is valid and when it fails, and package the answer as an evaluation framework for intelligent synthetic-user systems. A single protocol, run across four models spanning two families and an 8B-to-frontier capability range, is applied to two independent domains of real human-response data: U.S. gener

The former SEC chairman will replace acting intelligence chief Bill Pulte, whose brief tenure oversaw repeated personnel cuts to the nation’s top spy office.

The implementation timeline of the EU AI Act has been significantly modified through the recently adopted AI Omnibus, which pushes compliance with the obligations for high-risk AI systems to December 2027 (Annex III) and August 2028 (Annex I), from the initial date of 2 August 2026. Changes of the AI Act include, among others, the […]

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A thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and more have signed the letter.

With the threats from compounders and generics mostly contained, we can take a look at the latest piece of GLP-1 news. The post Selling The Skinny appeared first on Above the Law .

On-policy distillation (OPD), which aligns a student with the teacher's token-level distribution on the student's own rollouts, is an effective paradigm for transferring capabilities across LLMs. Prevailing approaches assume a teacher at least as capable as the student: they either distill a larger model into a smaller one, which fails at the frontier where no larger teacher exists, or consolidate multiple domain experts trained from a shared base, which requires costly training at the student's

Gorsuch says his friendship with Sotomayor proves profound disagreement doesn't require personal animosity. The post Neil Gorsuch Says He Trusts Sonia Sotomayor’s Motives, Even If He Rejects Her Legal Views appeared first on Above the Law .

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Vision-language-action (VLA) models commonly adopt an LLM-centric V to L to A pathway, where visual observations are projected into the representation space of a large language model before being decoded into robot actions. Although effective, this design incurs substantial computation and memory overhead at every policy invocation. In this work, we introduce TurboVLA, a new VLA paradigm that reformulates the conventional V to L to A pathway as a direct V + L to A mapping. Instead of using a lar

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. "Al could help create a dramatically better […]

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A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a governance entity that allows its stakeholders to manage blockchain-based protocols through smart contracts. The DAO explicitly specifies how stakeholders make and enforce decisions concerning a protocol's operation in a smart contract, aptly referred to as its governance contract. The design of this governance contract, therefore, has far-reaching implications for the security (trust) and privacy (transparency) of the smart contracts managed by

The general counsel who told the Senate his role was 'limited' has started publishing a target list. The post DHS General Counsel Names Four Federal Judges ‘Worst Of The Worst’ As Threats Against Judiciary Hit 564 appeared first on Above the Law .

The proposed legislation will authorize $10 million annually to address cyber threats in K-12 schools.

Two Republican senators want the slush fund killed in writing. Blanche testified it was dead, so writing it down shouldn't be hard. And yet... The post Todd Blanche’s Confirmation Is Being Held Up By… Todd Blanche appeared first on Above the Law .

Flagright, the AI operating system for financial crime compliance, today announced that Tipalti has partnered with Flagright as one of the tools supporting its compliance infrastructure.

On-policy distillation (OPD) grounds token-level supervision in the student's own trajectory, yet suffers from prefix failure: once the student commits to a wrong reasoning direction, all subsequent generation builds on this deviation, producing misdirected continuations that elicit unreliable supervision and waste compute. We identify a teacher-student continuation asymmetry on failed prefixes, where the teacher tends to redirect while the student continues along the original direction, and con

Generalist manipulation policies increasingly take the form of action-chunking flow policies built on large pretrained backbones. Such chunks run open-loop, so the policy cannot react to sensory input arriving mid-execution, sacrificing \emph{reactivity}. Replanning more often would restore it, but the perception-to-action pipeline (a large backbone plus multiple denoising steps) is too slow: this \emph{latency} forbids frequent replanning and leaves committed actions stale, making such policies

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Self-play in simulation produces robust driving policies at scale. Demonstrations of such behavior have been made using privileged vectorized observations such as exact poses and velocities, even for occluded agents. This assumes that perception is solved and introduces a representation gap with the partial observation of a deployed agent driving from the perspective view of egocentric cameras. A common fix, distilling the privileged policy into a camera-input student, leaves the student imitati

Background: The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has outpaced its formal adoption in health care organizations, contributing to the emergence of Shadow AI, defined here as the use of unauthorized AI tools by medical professionals. Under the European Union Medical Device Regulation, AI tools used for clinical purposes must undergo conformity assessment before use; general-purpose tools such as ChatGPT have not done so, rendering their clinical application unauthorized at the regula

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Over the last decade, including a stint on OpenAI’s board, I saw the open secret among AI developers: this kind of hack wasn’t just possible, but expected.