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A group of 12 Democratic state attorneys general is suing to block Paramount Skydance’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery — arguing the transaction violates antitrust law by giving the combined company undue power in three markets: wide-release theatrical distribution, tentpole movies and basic cable TV. Paramount says the suit “distorts settled antitrust law” and that the […]

President Donald Trump issued two proclamations on Monday, dramatically reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah. His authority to do so relies on a controversial interpretation of legislation from 1906.

World Action Models (WAMs) improve robot policy learning by jointly modeling actions and future visual observations, using future scene evolution as dense supervision for physically grounded action generation. However, a common design in existing WAMs is to explicitly generate future videos at inference time, incurring substantial computational overhead and hindering real-time closed-loop deployment. GigaWorld-Policy addresses this issue with an action-centered formulation, where future visual d

On-policy distillation (OPD) has become a key paradigm in LLM post-training, yet its training dynamics remain poorly understood. We present a systematic study examining the role, pathologies, and regulations of OPD. We first clarify the role of OPD as an exploration catalyst: it steers the student toward correct reasoning paths via dense token-level guidance, without expanding capability ceiling. We confirm this by showing that prompt diversity matters more than per-problem sampling numbers, and

Validating autonomous driving systems requires diverse, regulation-compliant test scenarios. In simulation-based testing, scenarios are defined as executable scripts. Yet automatically generating such scripts from regulatory descriptions remains an open challenge, and existing approaches face fundamental trade-offs. Retrieval-assemble methods achieve reasonable compilation rates but lack scalability, whereas retrieval-based full-script generation suffers from low compilation success rates. We pr

Serial verification gates are a core reliability primitive in LLM harnesses: a candidate answer is returned only if k verifier calls all accept it. Under conditionally independent gates, the recent Odds Law (arXiv:2606.15712) shows that posterior log-odds grow linearly in k, so failure decays exponentially, and states that "a tight theory of partially correlated verifier cascades remains open." This note gives a minimal such theory. Modeling the per-instance false-accept rate on the generator's

Agentic language models must learn when to call tools, when to consume tool responses, and when to answer directly. This makes multi-teacher on-policy distillation a natural training strategy: one teacher can specialize in tool calls, another in direct responses, and the student can learn from both on its own generated distribution. We show that this strategy can induce a behavior shift that is invisible from aggregate losses alone. In a two-teacher tool-use setting, vanilla generalized knowledg

Justice Amy Coney Barrett details the real-life consequences of threats against judges, and why the high court wants more money to protect judges. The post When Being A SCOTUS Justice Means Explaining Bulletproof Vests To Your Kids appeared first on Above the Law .

This year the state of New York had the dubious honor of being the first to pass a controversial provision to mandate all 3D printers come with surveillance and censorship. That means not only is there a ticking clock to protect every artist, researcher, engineer, and hobbyist in the state, but there is a real risk of other states thoughtlessly following suit—prior to the New York rules even taking effect. We, along with many other experts , already warned about this bill buried in the state’s c

Agentic AI introduces new insurance challenges because autonomous AI systems can make decisions, invoke tools, modify external environments, and interact with third-party services. This paper develops an AI-native mathematical framework for underwriting, pricing, and contract design for agentic AI deployments. A deployment is represented by a risk state that captures autonomy level, operational authority, permission exposure, governance maturity, and dependency concentration. The framework maps

The part everyone skips when discussing AI firms is how much managing the machine actually takes. The post AI-First Law Firms Don’t Work Fewer Hours, They Work Smarter Hours appeared first on Above the Law .

Draft text of the Digital Age Assurance Act mirrors a California law that has received widespread industry support.

Actor Ben McKenzie, best known for his role on the TV drama "The OC," urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to vote against a cryptocurrency regulation bill over the lack of an ethics provision limiting President Trump’s involvement in the industry. McKenzie has become a key crypto critic, releasing a documentary about the industry last year...

On 29 June 2026, the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs rapporteur Charlie Weimers published a draft report, to be presented at a public hearing on July 15, on “The Institutional Framework of the European Union and its Interaction with National Authorities in the Application of Union Law, with Particular Reference to Article 19 TEU”. The CJEU's historic reluctance to open up its own governance, notwithstanding what the post-Lisbon constitutional arrangement requires of it, has left it

California will begin offering instant rebates of up to $3,500 to first-time electric vehicle (EV) buyers later this summer, replacing some of the incentives lost after the Trump administration phased out EV and clean energy tax credits. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday signed new legislation establishing a $270 million rebate program for California...

Ross is clearly no longer exhibiting good behavior. The post Inaction On Judge Eleanor Ross Sends A Clear Message: Retaliating Against Whistleblowers Is OK appeared first on Above the Law .

The U.S.-based company assigned a recently hired technical employee to testify remotely before the European Parliament, which left a series of key policy questions unanswered.

As the AI cost crisis begins to fade from the forefront, a related fear is rearing its head: The need The post The enterprise strikes back: Keep your data, ditch the AI bill. appeared first on The New Stack .

Training robust autonomous driving agents requires a simulator that is fast enough for reinforcement learning at scale, realistic enough to ground behavior in real-world map structure, and diverse enough to cover the safety-critical long tail that logged data rarely contains. We present TerraZero, a procedural driving simulator and self-play training stack. A configurable C engine runs simulation on the CPU and policy inference on the GPU over a zero-copy path, sustaining 1.3M agent-steps per se

Also starring Bill Nighy and Ed Skrein, the series follows best friends, one an elite assassin and the other a clueless civilian, forced to go on the run together across Europe.

These law schools would like to keep their graduates out of debt. The post The Law Schools That Offer Students The Most Help With Tuition (2026) appeared first on Above the Law .

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.

Risk tolerance, exposure visibility, board oversight — handling third-party risk is complicated but achievable with disciplined, precise governance.

New York became the first U.S. state to ban the construction of new large-scale AI data centers after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday.

The appointment suggests that the unicorn is moving from securing a regulatory foothold in East Africa’s biggest economy to building a banking business.

Main Justice found a lever to pull that isn't 'why do people keep leaving?' The post DOJ Rolls Out A Case Quota For The Prosecutors It Hasn’t Lost Yet appeared first on Above the Law .

Rebuilding Ukraine is about far more than restoring physical infrastructure; it is about embedding fundamental human dignity and rights into everyday local governance. This was th ...

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The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) invites applications for a competitive emerging scholars program connected to a Department of National Defence Mobilizing Insights in Defence ...

At the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou, students can listen to lectures given by AI avatars that look and speak just like Albert Einstein or mathematician John Nash. The ...

How to apply effective governance to harness the benefits of A.I. and mitigate its risks ...

Intentional or not, Paul Weiss continues reputational pivot away from litigation. The post Linklaters Poaches Two Paul Weiss Litigators appeared first on Above the Law .

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 3 Author(s): Anne Goldmann, Sandra Plümer

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