Regulation

The assets within global Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) increased to $257 trillion by the end of 2024 – or more than half of total global financial assets, according to the Financial ...

July marked the effective date for China's new requirements and potential liability on providers of AI-powered "emotional interaction services," marking the latest jurisdiction to tackle companion and ...

A delay in formal high-risk AI Act application does not pause enterprise procurement diligence. For many non-EU AI vendors, the first serious pressure point will still be a customer evidence request.

Switzerland's competition watchdog has launched a preliminary investigation into Google after the company removed Android's Choice Screen for selecting a default search engine. The post Swiss Regulator opens antitrust probe into Google over Android search defaults appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

On Techpoint Digest, we discuss Kenya licensing 25 more digital lenders, Malawi tightening data protection regulations, and Morocco reducing card payment fees.

New York has become the first US state to pause new hyperscale data centre permits while regulators prepare a comprehensive environmental framework. The post New York becomes the first US state to establish a moratorium on data centres appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Faranani DocTec specialists unpacked why many companies still lack visibility into the personal and sensitive information they hold, where it lives and who can access it.

Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves Andy Burnham faces a lot of big decisions . But one of the incoming prime minister’s biggest early tests is what he does about the world’s “ scariest company ” – Palantir. The US defence and surveillance tech behemoth has a swathe of British public contracts, including, most controversially, a £330m deal with the NHS . It’s pretty clear what man

arXiv:2607.12149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Content moderation practices and governance paradigms are changing rapidly, as fewer human moderators are deployed as `experts' by social media companies in a centralized manner. Instead, the companies are focusing more on community approaches, relying on volunteers to provide accurate information and make correct decisions. In decentralized moderation, communities have always relied on volunteers, updated community guidelines, and internal discuss

arXiv:2602.09907v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: College students increasingly use AI chatbots to support academic reading, yet we lack granular understanding of how these interactions shape their reading experience and cognitive engagement. We conducted an eight-week longitudinal study with 15 undergraduates who used AI to support assigned readings in a course. We collected 838 prompts across 239 reading sessions and developed a coding schema categorizing prompts into four cognitive th

“It’s telecom policy à la Draghi,” Kyriakos Pierrakakis said in an interview.

SHEIN Global Holdings Limited, the company behind China-founded fashion e-commerce platform SHEIN, has received a filing notice from China’s securities regulator for a proposed listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The notice, issued on July 10, was based on materials submitted through the company’s mainland operating entity, Guangzhou Shein International Import & Export Co., […]

On 17-19 November 2026, the Centre of Expertise for Multilevel Governance of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, in collaboration with the Digital Development Unit (DGI) will organise the ...

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 an RP-supplied evidence policy for consent, but d

Budget optimism is rising as 2027 approaches — but more spend alone won’t improve outcomes. Use this moment to reset your AI investments. Prioritize the readiness, governance, and context required to make it truly work.

Alignment faking is dangerous because a model can appear compliant under monitoring while preserving behavior it would reveal when unmonitored. When no scratchpad is visible, behavior alone cannot distinguish strategic from genuine compliance. We ask whether hidden states reveal what outputs hide. We run a 13-model sweep for naturally-emerging faking, then probe and steer hidden states on the two models that fake. Natural faking appears only in Qwen3-32B (+18.2pp) and Llama-3.1-8B (+24.4pp at n=

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Commission) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, that the Maryland Advisory Committee (Committee) to the Commission will hold public meetings via Zoom. The purpose is for the committee to begin hearing expert testimony and continue briefing planning on the committee's chosen topic of artificial intelligence and its application in voting administration.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations that govern its standards for protection against radiation. These proposed revisions would address section 5(b) of Executive Order 14300, "Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission," and would reflect the NRC's experience and other developments in the field of radiation protection since the NRC's last major revisions to these standards in 1991. In addition, the NRC is issuing for public comment draf

IntroductionLarge language models have evolved from laboratory demonstrations into mass-market companion-style conversational agents that many users treat as social partners. As these systems produce increasingly human-like conversational behavior, users may attribute mind, form affective bonds, disclose sensitive information, and rely on agents for emotional support, creating both potential benefits and psychosocial risks.MethodsWe conducted a PRISMA-ScR-informed scoping review of socioaffectiv

What I learned navigating a policy vacuum as a tech coordinator and the collaborative process to build an AI-ready culture.

A conversation with Pat Yongpradit, general manager of global education and workforce policy at Microsoft.

DOJ Has A Cool New Way To Demoralize The Attorneys It Has Left Working For It: Mandatory case quotas. Read The Opinion… No, Not Like That: Amy Coney Barrett tells Congress that the Supreme Court doesn’t really care about explaining itself all the time. Law School Doesn’t Need To Be A Debt Sentence: These schools […] The post Forcing Prosecutors To Bring Cases To Keep Their Jobs? What Could Possibly Go Wrong? — See Also appeared first on Above the Law .

Personalized recommendation systems are central to modern e-commerce and retail platforms, but they typically rely on centralized storage of detailed user interaction data, creating significant privacy and regulatory challenges. With increasing requirements from regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA, organizations must develop recommendation systems that preserve user privacy without substantially degrading recommendation quality. This work presents and evaluates a privacy-preserving recommen

Incoming interim dean has... issues. The post Has A Law School Had A Dean Facing Court Sanctions Before? Asking For THIS Law School. appeared first on Above the Law .

Artificial intelligence pioneer Demis Hassabis today called for the creation of a standards body focused on regulating frontier models. Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind, proposed in a Substack essay that the U.S. should lead the effort. Axios reported that the executive has held talks about the initiative with the White House, European officials and […] The post Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis calls for creation of AI standards body appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

New York became the first state in the U.S. to impose a statewide moratorium on new data centers today after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing state environmental permits for large facilities for up to a year. Executive Order No. 62 took effect on signing and covers hyperscale data centers that draw 50 […] The post New York becomes first US state to impose a data center moratorium appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Turns out accountability was always something for other people. The post Amy Coney Barrett Then: ‘Read The Opinion!’ ACB Now: Inappropriate To Expect Supreme Court To Explain Decisions appeared first on Above the Law .

The initiative stems from a June 2 executive order that urged advanced AI developers to grant the government early access to their capabilities to address potential vulnerabilities.

The move advances a yearslong effort to end the practice of changing the clocks twice a year.

The future probably will not belong to the lawyers who memorize the most rules. The post Geoffrey Brow On Why the Best In-House Lawyers Learn To Fly The Plane With One Engine Burning appeared first on Above the Law .

The bill would let Trump impose tariffs of up to 100% on the largest purchasers of Russian oil

Policy documents shape governance outcomes, but their reasoning is often implicit. Participatory commitments and managerial control routinely coexist in the same text, and the tensions between them are rarely stated directly. Existing computational approaches to policy discourse cannot express the frame-mediated relations that drive these tensions, where one argument narrows or instrumentalizes another rather than rejecting it. End-to-end summarization by large language models produces fluent te

The thrill in seeing the level of skill and talent on display, on both an individual and team level, was exhilarating. The post Welcoming The World appeared first on Above the Law .

SASC Ranking Member Jack Reed, D-R.I., told Breaking Defense settling the budget would be the most “practical step” and that lawmakers could “revive” the legislation quickly if “stars align.”

To coordinate regulation.

The U.S. telecom regulator is securing communications networks supporting the year’s largest sporting event.