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arXiv:2607.13369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present xChk, a reference identity provider for Bring Your Own Identity (BYOI): users enroll via heterogeneous proofs (government KYC, corporate SSO, WebAuthn/FIDO2, professional networks, live verification, longitudinal activity, behavioral signals) and disclose them as portfolio claims in standard OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect (OIDC) tokens, while each relying party applies its own sufficiency policy - the IdP transports claims and may evaluate

arXiv:2607.13766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital twins are used across many industries to enable better decision making. However, while policy makers at all levels (including city, national and supranational scales) have expressed a desire to integrate digital twins into their workflows, this adoption has been slow to materialise. In this paper, we discuss the key issues associated with policy digital twins, and the ways in which they differ from, and are similar to, their counterparts

arXiv:2511.01923v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems rely heavily on user-generated data for training. As governments and platforms impose increasing restrictions on the use of personal data, an important question is whether limiting access to user data for AI training affects the performance of AI-enabled economic systems. We examine this question in the context of labor-market matching. Our setting exploits a unique sequence of LinkedIn policy

arXiv:2605.16281v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Post-deployment accountability has become central to AI governance, yet little empirical evidence shows whether monitoring, incident reporting, and impact assessment obligations are visible when AI systems fail. This study analyzes real-world AI incidents from the AI Incident Database (2020--2026) and codes them against nine post-deployment provisions from the EU AI Act, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and the GDPR. The findings show sub

Today, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) published an Issue Brief comparatively analyzing developments in cross-border data transfer regulations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) from 2023 to 2026. Titled Navigating Cross-Border Data Transfers in the APAC Region: An Analysis of Developments from 2023 to 2026, the Issue Brief examines the rapidly evolving landscape of cross-border data transfers […]

When the PM talks about new laws applying to the ‘next generation of large-scale datacentres’ what does he mean? Albanese’s AI blueprint sparks calls for datacentre moratorium until new regulations in place Expectations were high as the prime minister took the stage at the University of Sydney on Wednesday to outline a pivot in his government’s approach to artificial intelligence . The vibes of the speech seem to have lived up to the hype but it fell short on policy detail. Before the address th

Clinical laboratory testing technology has advanced significantly since the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) regulations were implemented in 1992. This request for information (RFI) seeks input from the public regarding various topics related to the CLIA regulations, including: breath testing; laboratory processes and procedures; emergency preparedness, biosafety and biosecurity, and cybersecurity; and specialty testing areas. Responses to this RFI may be used to help in

Generative Artificial Intelligence has undergone rapid maturation between 2023 and 2025, driven by three converging paradigm shifts: the emergence of multimodal foundation models unifying text, image, audio, and video synthesis; the rise of agentic autonomy transforming generative systems into goal-driven, autonomous entities; and the formalization of responsible AI governance through legally enforceable regulations. While this technological landscape has generated substantial economic impact, c

BackgroundThe systematic integration of robotics into health service delivery systems requires periodic assessment of robotic readiness in terms of digital-health maturity regimes across countries. The current study aims to cluster 169 countries into maturity regimes and classify and predict cluster membership accuracy based on digital-health maturity dimensions determining the system’s perception and interoperability, coordination, and workforce–regulatory reliability readiness. These country-l

Turns Out The Biglaw Firms That Bent The Knee To Trump Have Even More To Rue: Those deals keep looking worse and worse. Todd Blanche Used To Have The Respect Of His Former SDNY Colleagues: Not so much anymore. Oopsie! Todd Blanche's Freudian slip during the confirmation hearing isn't the only thing getting people talking. Merger? What Merger? Linklaters and Cleary definitely weren't talking about a merger . Anarchy In The UK : Kentucky Law's already messy dean selection process has spawned a law

No matter what the president does... The post Yes, Even Celebrities Have To Pay Their Attorneys appeared first on Above the Law .

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a high-speed internet grant program signed into law by President Biden unconstitutionally used race as a factor in deciding where to dole out the funds. U.S. District Judge John Bates heavily cited the Supreme Court’s decision invalidating affirmative action in higher education admissions in agreeing with President Trump, who...

Trump is bleeding support even among his stubborn, uneducated base. The post I Don’t Think Trump’s Remaining Supporters Realize How Much They Are Despised By Non-MAGA Voters appeared first on Above the Law .

It’s good to pay attention to what AALL is focused on. That’s why this year’s theme was eye-catching. The post AALL 2026: Focusing On The Aloha appeared first on Above the Law .

The California legislature has stepped back from a plan that would have expanded its age-gating law, removing language that could have compounded serious threats to users’ speech, privacy and security just to browse the internet. A.B. 1856 , authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, will now move forward through the legislature without its most problematic pieces. EFF still believes the underlying law that A.B. 1856 amends, A.B. 1043 , is unconstitutional. Signed into law in 2025 (and effective Ja

'I'm his lawyer — was his lawyer.' Sure, Todd. The post Paging Dr. Freud: Todd Blanche Calls Himself Trump’s Lawyer At His Attorney General Confirmation Hearing appeared first on Above the Law .

New York became the first state in the U.S. to impose a ban of its kind when the governor signed the executive order Tuesday.

OpenAI has begun displaying prediction market odds from Kalshi inside ChatGPT search results, marking the first time the company has partnered with a regulated betting exchange. The integration, first reported by the New York Times, shows real-time odds for 2026 FIFA World Cup matches with a “Source: Kalshi” label but no outbound links or Kalshi […] This story continues at The Next Web

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would require prediction markets and online sportsbook to use facial recognition to verify users' ages to avoid minors from placing bets or trading on platforms. The New Jersey Democrat announced the bill alongside Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, who said he welcomed the proposal on top of...

The EU adopted regulation in 2023 that requires many electronics to have replaceable batteries by 2027.

The nation's capital is capping ticket resale prices at 10 percent higher than a ticket's original face value and is outlawing speculative tickets.

Large language models are increasingly trained as interactive agents for long-horizon tasks involving multi-turn interaction, tool use, and environment feedback. Outcome-based reinforcement learning (RL) provides a practical optimization paradigm, but its sparse trajectory-level rewards offer limited guidance on intermediate decisions, leaving a supervision gap between episode-level outcomes and token-level policy learning. We propose SEED (SElf-Evolving On-Policy Distillation), a self-evolving

Recent robot foundation models operate with single-step or short-history visuomotor context. We introduce Test-Time-Training Robot Policies (RoboTTT), a robot model and training recipe that scale visuomotor context to 8K timesteps, three orders of magnitude beyond state-of-the-art policies, without growing inference latency. At this context length, we unlock new robot capabilities: one-shot in-context imitation from human video demonstrations, on-the-fly policy improvement, robustness to perturb

In-context learning is commonly interpreted as a form of conditional inference, in which the prompt specifies a context and the model's output is treated as an estimate of the corresponding conditional distribution. If this interpretation holds, then LLM estimates should satisfy basic probabilistic identities. In particular, the law of total probability asserts that prior-weighted conditional distributions aggregate into population-level marginals over any valid partition of the population. In t

On-policy distillation is an alternative post-training method in reinforcement learning that alleviates the constraints imposed by reward models by providing token-level supervision from a teacher model. Although on-policy distillation has been studied and applied across various settings, its fundamental design remains underexplored. In this paper, we introduce a new distillation reward, termed the delta signal, instead of directly imitating the teacher's output distribution. The delta signal is

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) commonly uses entropy for advantage shaping. However, entropy cannot distinguish useful uncertainty from detrimental confusion, limiting its effectiveness as a correctness signal. We propose Contrastive Policy Optimization (CPO), which uses token-level contrastive disagreement between reference-guided and vanilla generation distributions for correctness-aware advantage shaping. Both theoretical and empirical results show that this disagreemen

We study on-policy distillation (OPD) for agentic tasks, where an LLM agent interacts with an environment over multiple turns and a student imitates a teacher over these multi-turn interaction histories. Fully online OPD is costly because each update requires fresh student rollouts through the environment and teacher queries at visited histories. We propose Replayed-Prefix On-Policy Distillation (ReOPD), an off-environment alternative that reuses pre-collected teacher trajectories as replayed pr

Soon-to-be UK Law dean Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove got sued in his own old courthouse. The post Kentucky Law Professor Sues To Stop New Dean And Every Federal Judge Already Recused appeared first on Above the Law .

Federal law bars a living person's portrait from appearing on U.S. currency. Treasury cites the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020.

Winter sunrises and sunsets may come notably later in much of the country if Congress ends up passing a bill to make Daylight Saving Time year-round.

Republicans bypassed Democrats on Iran war funding, admitting negotiation would have "exacted a big price."

A reported Linklaters-Cleary Gottlieb courtship fizzled quickly, if it ever existed at all. The post Another Rumored Biglaw Merger Falls Apart Before It Begins appeared first on Above the Law .

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 currently utilized platforms for LLM evaluation, m

Safety alignment in LLMs aims to align models with human values, but which values take precedence when they conflict? We investigate this question in the context of tool-calling LLM agents deployed in regulated industries, where agents processing confidential documents may encounter content that triggers safety-trained values (e.g., public welfare) that conflict with deployment-context instructions (e.g., internal logging). To empirically verify this phenomenon, we build a benchmark of 128 scena

From firms to law schools, innocent bystanders take heat. The post Collateral Damage Across The Legal Industry appeared first on Above the Law .

AI-friendly president shared a post saying governor Kathy Hochul should scrap the one-year policy ‘IMMEDIATELY’ Donald Trump railed against the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, for pausing the construction of large new datacenters, the resource-intensive facilities that power artificial intelligence. New York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday, when Hochul signed an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on so-called “hyperscale” datacente

As AI agents gain greater autonomy across the internet, a system of governance is emerging around three questions: how much The post Trust, transactions and tokenomics: AI agent infrastructure begins to standardize appeared first on The New Stack .