Regulation

Artificial Intelligence can produce biased outputs. In part, this is because unrepresentative data is used to train, validate and test AI. To remedy skewed datasets and train fairer AI, many call for more comprehensive and systematic data production and processing about diverse people’s bodies and lives, including disabled people. Yet this response rests on a number of assumptions. Drawing on disability data, I argue that we should be cautious about these assumptions when regulating AI. The post

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 has taken the top spot in a front-end coding leaderboard, giving Sacks fresh ammunition against tighter U.S. AI rules.

Generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly used by students for programming explanation, debugging, and assignment support. Yet unrestricted large language model (LLM) tutors can hallucinate, contradict course policy, reveal complete solutions, and foster passive dependence. This paper presents EduGuard, a safe retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tutoring framework for introductory programming. EduGuard integrates query understanding, instructor-approved course retrieval, pedagogical strategy select

On 15 July 2026, the Court of Appeal handed down an important judgment in Vince v Associated Newspapers ([2026] EWCA Civ 899). This decision establishes, for the first time, that a person can sue a newspaper under data protection law for an “unfair” article even if, under the law of defamation, there is no claim. […]

We start this week’s Wrap with a survey: ‘Has law firm AI use delivered cost savings for clients?’ There is a link here to share ...

SHANGHAI (AP) — Development and governance of artificial intelligence should be a global effort, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday, while reiterating China’s objections to what he called the “overstretching” of national security concerns. Speaking at a conference in Shanghai, Xi said AI should not be dominated by any single nation. American-led restrictions have blocked...

Policymakers around the world face the question of how to use artificial intelligence in general, and large language models in particular, to improve the policymaking process. Used well, large language models can strengthen the collection, interpretation and synthesis of policy-relevant information and the drafting of policy-relevant output. Yet the use of large language models in policymaking is associated with risks. Output that is plausible but not necessarily correct, bias resulting from unr

India's cybersecurity ecosystem faces deep structural problems, from weak regulation to outdated policy. Experts identify ten reforms that cannot wait. The post Ten things wrong with India’s cybersecurity system: what the experts say appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

By Kevin Walker, CEO, Centari. In recent months, several of the world’s leading law firms have announced investments in legal technology at a scale only ...

BBC Philharmonic/Havlat/Kaziboni/Piatti Quartet (NMC) Einstein’s field equations, Newton’s universal law and artificial intelligence are among the subjects of Laidlow’s ambitious orchestral works Robert Laidlow is as at home in the realms of science and technology as he is in the world of classical music. As this NMC debut album demonstrates, his intricate, wildly imaginative work is eminently approachable, even if the core concepts are highly complex. Warp, a terse, 12-minute piano concerto, pr

Symmetry Investments has received the regulatory approval to operate in Dubai, joining hedge fund peers who’re continuing to expand in the emirate despite the regional conflict.

CEPS is pleased to announce a call for interest for a new three-day executive course designed for mid- to senior level health policy experts and practitioners from low- and middle-income countries ...

LEED v4.1 BD+C certification remains a document-intensive process that requires reviewers to read hundreds of pages of project evidence and apply credit-specific threshold logic by hand. This paper investigates whether small, locally deployed language models can perform meaningful screening of LEED documentation and how deterministic symbolic components should share that work. A neuro-symbolic pipeline is introduced that aligns project PDFs to LEED credit sections, retrieves evidence with credit

South Korean regulators fear single-stock leveraged ETFs are fuelling volatility

arXiv:2607.15051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Canadian organizations deploying artificial intelligence systems face a fragmented regulatory landscape spanning federal requirements (the Treasury Board Directive on Automated Decision-Making) and divergent provincial regulations across Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba, and British Columbia. The death of Bill C-27 (Artificial Intelligence and Data Act) in January 2025 - and the federal government's June 2026 confirmation that it will pursue targ

arXiv:2607.14309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificial Intelligent (AI) powered autonomous agents has fundamentally changed the existing forms of software governance. In spite of the rigorous standards of transparency and account ability required according to the international frameworks such as the European Union's AI Act, there is a considerable gap between theory and reality. The present study discusses the inherent drawbacks of

arXiv:2606.21317v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent work has raised concerns about the influence of sycophantic AI on user judgment and relationships. One proposed mitigation, which has received regulatory attention, is to warn users about potentially harmful AI behaviors such as sycophancy. In a preregistered experiment in which participants (N = 2,610) discussed real interpersonal conflicts with an AI system, we test whether warning labels mitigate sycophancy's influence. We find

Fourth brush with the law for Ehud "The Analyzer" Tenenbaum, who once hacked Pentagon and NASA.

Billions of dollars in leveraged bets on South Korea's AI darlings have warped a stock market once revered as a reliable barometer of global growth into a wild ​casino, confounding both regulators and ...

Data center-related policy proposals, protests and litigation are underway across the country citing Colossus and Memphis as a cautionary tale.

Four-finger SLAP fingerprints are flat live-scan impressions of the index, middle, ring, and little fingers of one hand, used for identity verification in border control and law enforcement. No benchmark has evaluated whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can verify identity from SLAP images. We introduce SLAPBench, the first benchmark for MLLM-based four-finger SLAP fingerprint verification, built from NIST SD302b with 7,832 pairs (176 mated, 7,656 non-mated). We evaluate four open-s

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its regulations to change the admission period in the F, J, and I classifications from duration of status to an admission for a fixed time period, and additional changes to admission and extension requirements. This final rule will provide additional protections and oversight of these nonimmigrant categories and will allow DHS to better evaluate whether these nonimmigrants are maintaining status while temporarily in the United States. This fi

Will anyone do anything about it? Unlikely! The post Biglaw Summer Associate Recruiting Has Officially Become Ridiculous appeared first on Above the Law .

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for more global cooperation in the development and governance of artificial intelligence, while promising support for other countries.

The lawyers who build real books of business are not the ones who dart, hesitate, and hope. They are the ones who pick a direction, commit to a plan, and cross the road with purpose. The post Stop Acting Like A Squirrel With Your Legal Business Development appeared first on Above the Law .

Six bills before the panel would create new responsibilities for NTIA and the FCC.

A blood test now helps doctors decide, in about 15 minutes, whether a patient with a suspected brain injury needs a CT scan. It took about 20 years to get there. That gap between scientific promise and clinical use tells us more about American innovation policy than most congressional hearings ever will. At one such ... A Patent, a Blood Test, and 20 Years of Waiting The post A Patent, a Blood Test, and 20 Years of Waiting appeared first on Truth on the Market .

The bill would cut compliance costs for small broadband providers.

Regulators aren’t providing guidance quickly enough, and while large firms have access to in-house ethics advisors, solos and smalls don’t. The post The One About Passing AI Costs Through To Clients appeared first on Above the Law .

A bill to provide $10,000 bonuses to New York City’s full-time paraprofessionals is headed to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s desk after it was approved by City Council members Thursday. Similar legislation introduced last year was backed by the United Federation of Teachers in an effort to address the city’s paraprofessional shortage. After the bill failed to […]

The Trump administration's USAO shell game continues. It's going to lose again. The post Trump Fires U.S. Attorney After 54 Minutes, Replaces Him With Fake Prosecutor appeared first on Above the Law .

The post Texas Democrats Ask for Investigation Into Ken Paxton After Our Reporting Found He May Have Violated Election Law appeared first on ProPublica .

Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden says the Trump administration should pressure Canada not to enact a proposal that would "weaponize American technology infrastructure" for surveillance purposes.

Turns out the profession's technophobia gets left at the in-house door. The post In-House Lawyers Are The Biggest AI Users appeared first on Above the Law .

Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. “The ruling reminds us of the value of […]

The firms that thought they had escaped Trump's wrath are once again dealing with the fallout. The post Biglaw Learns The Hard Way That Those Trump Deals Weren’t Exactly A Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card appeared first on Above the Law .

Muon is competitive with AdamW in large-scale pre-training, but its value for reinforcement-learning (RL) post-training remains unclear. We study vanilla Muon in sparse-reward agentic RL through matched single-seed comparisons with AdamW on ALFWorld using Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct. Under Group-in-Group Policy Optimization (GiGPO), applying Muon only to hidden weight matrices raises final-window validation success from 0.290 to 0.546 (+88%); high-rate AdamW controls retain no post-update success. The

Modern video generation models are increasingly hailed as emerging world models with an internalized grasp of physical law. Yet existing benchmarks largely evaluate physical plausibility only at the output level, without verifying whether the model arrives there through a faithful, law-grounded reasoning process. We introduce Apple-PI, the first benchmark that anchors video-model evaluation explicitly in physical laws. Apple-PI comprises three components. 1) Orchard: a dataset of 400 videos cove

[ PDF Version ] Trust & Safety (T&S) teams in the tech industry are currently at a “build or buy” crossroads. Waning budgets and mass layoffs, increased regulatory requirements, and new AI-based tools with impressive capabilities are changing T&S teams’ internal calculus on how to allocate limited resources to traditional T&S functions. T&S teams are […] The post To Build or To Buy? Human Rights Considerations for Trust & Safety Vendors appeared first on Center for Democracy and Technology .

Hannah Riley Bowles Appointment Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management Mailing Address 1 Harvard Kennedy School Mailing Address 2 79 ...