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Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Christian Riis Flor, Stefan Hirth, Evgeny Lyandres, Alexander Schandlbauer

Publication date: June 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, Volume 10 Author(s): Edmund Evangelista, Syed M. Salman Bukhari

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Jin Hu, Cong Ma, Daning Hu

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Jiasun Li, Zhengxun Wu

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Katya Malinova, Andreas Park

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Campbell R. Harvey, Joel Hasbrouck, Fahad Saleh

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Michelle Xiaomin Fan, Kenneth G. Huang

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Tong Zhou

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Richard T. Thakor, Andrew W. Lo

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Huafeng (Jason) Chen, Xiaofei Pan, Meijun Qian, Yiping Wu, Qing Xia

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Sapnoti K. Eswar, Lora Dimitrova

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Mark A. Chen, Shuting Sophia Hu, Joanna Wang, Qinxi Wu

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Wei Yang

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Pinar Ozcan, Dize Dinçkol, Markos Zachariadis

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Shengjing Yu, Xiaolan Zheng, Martin J. Liu

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Qi Chen, Roberto M. Samaniego

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 7 Author(s): Lin William Cong, Po-Hsuan Hsu, John P. Walsh

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Publication date: Available online 2 June 2026 Source: Research Policy Author(s): Matthias Mueller, Michael P. Schlaile, Stephanie Lang, Matthijs J. Janssen, Iris Wanzenböck, Kristina Bogner, Jana Zscheischler, Michael Schramm, Andreas Pyka

Publication date: Available online 29 May 2026 Source: Research Policy Author(s): Xin Deng, Yen Teik Lee, Qi Sun, Yu Yan

Imagining the AI Landscape after the AI Act [Brussels] [Jul 7, 2026 - Jul 7, 2026]

China's new law on anthropomorphic AI comes into effect tomorrow. Here is what it says | Edition #306

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (virtually) at the Policy-Relevant Privacy Research Workshop in Calgary, Canada, on Monday, July 20, 2026. I’m speaking at Boston Leadership Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026. I’m speaking at Cognitive Security Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The conference runs August 6-7, 2026; my speaking time is TBD. I’m speaking at DEF CON 34 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The conventions runs

Commission exempts smart glasses like Meta's from batteries regulation, clearing a major hurdle to European expansion.

Research fellow Bill Robinson speaks with The Globe and Mail about CSE spending. The post Canada’s Electronic Spy Agency Conducted Cyberattacks on Criminals Brokering Fentanyl Ingredients, Report Says appeared first on The Citizen Lab .

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing the construction of the largest data centers for one year while the state assesses their effects on the environment and energy use.

Modern robot learning systems increasingly rely on dense progress or value signals to evaluate intermediate states, guide policy learning, and detect task completion, making the quality of these signals critical. Since such dense labels are rarely available at scale, normalized time within a demonstration is often used as a scalable substitute: later frames are treated as higher progress. However, this time-derived label is only a noisy proxy for physical task progress. In contact-rich manipulat

The technology is different, but the conversations aren't. The post Legal Operations Was Built For The AI Era appeared first on Above the Law .

TikTok's policy chief defended the platform's safety measures as the European Union pushes ahead with restricting children's access to social media.

AI agents are already doing business. Delaware is moving to bring them inside a predictable American legal order, just like the LLC and PBC.

The yellow-tuxedoed showman is famous for turning a struggling minor league baseball franchise into a viral global phenomenon by putting fan experience above all else. The post Exclusive: As Its Kaleidoscope Conference Returns For Year Two, 8am Trades Austin’s Cowboy Boots For The Las Vegas Strip — And Books The Savannah Bananas’ Founder As Keynote appeared first on Above the Law .

Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order enacting a moratorium on the large, resource-intensive AI facilities New York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday. Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on the large facilities used to power artificial intelligence products. Continue reading...

International law experts respond to the Trump administration's campaign to "dismantle" the International Criminal Court. The post What does the Trump Administration Statement on Dismantling the ICC Really Mean? appeared first on Just Security .

Emails between regulators and xAI’s consultants put most of the turbines in Southaven, Mississippi. Within five miles on the Tennessee side, about 94% of residents are Black. Ervin Laws lives in Colonial Hills, a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi, where residents say the turbines running around the clock sound like jet engines. “I can’t do anything […] This story continues at The Next Web

On 10 July 2026, the European Commission announced that it had preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the “addictive design” of Instagram and Facebook. The Commission considers that Meta should disable autoplay and infinite scroll by default, build in real screen-time breaks, and make the recommender system “less engagement-oriented”. The decision is better understood from its strategic and symbolic dimensions in view of its contestable legal basis. The post Press-Rel

The Federal Trade Commission lauded an Ohio Supreme Court proposal to lower the cost of legal representation by ending the American Bar Association’s explicit control over whether an Ohio bar applicant’s legal education is sufficient for practicing law in the state, undermining its monopoly. View Press Release

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis has published a sweeping proposal for how to handle advanced AI. He wants a new US standards body modeled after financial regulator FINRA that would develop evaluation protocols for frontier models and could coordinate a slowdown in AI development if needed. Startups and research models would be exempt. The article Deepmind CEO Hassabis says "nobody in the world knows what happens next" so "cautious optimism" means building guardrails now appeared first on The

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) in particular, is now run routinely on a supervised checkpoint in the hope of producing a stronger agent. We ask whether it adds skill to a small language and vision-language model web agent at the 4B to 8B scale, or whether it mostly reshapes behavior the supervised model already has. Across a control grid of 18 runs that varies learning rate, KL weight, seed, initialization, and clipping, no configura

What GAO Found Certain types of waste are particularly pervasive or difficult to clean up with existing technologies. Microbes (e.g., bacteria, fungi) can be engineered to break down pollutants more effectively. For example, researchers have inserted genes into bacteria that allow the bacteria to break down contaminants, such as phenol or hydrocarbons, in water and soil. At present, there are no examples of commercially available engineered microbes for waste cleanup. Example areas where enginee

Over the past few weeks, I have had a lot of conversations with clients who have read the headlines