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The rapid emergence of LLM-powered autonomous and semi-autonomous agents is reshaping software systems from static, request-response components into goal-directed, adaptive, and tool-using computational actors. As these agents move from isolated cognitive prototypes into complex distributed workflows, they confront challenges that the Service-Oriented Computing community has studied for more than two decades: composition, interoperability, quality of service, lifecycle management, governance, se

WAEMU, an eight-country region, wants to build a connected fintech ecosystem that bypasses the interoperability problem much of Africa faces. At Catapult Africa 2026, investors, founders, and regulators gathered to discuss what that future would look like.

National Treasury's draft crypto regulations strip property rights and contradict the central bank's own vision, Luno argues.

As Gulf states compete through scale and headline-grabbing mega-projects, Bahrain EDB’s CEO H.E. Noor is pursuing a different path—leveraging regulatory innovation, specialist sectors, and strategic partnerships to position the kingdom as the region's agile investment hub.

According to the recent European legislation, high-risk AI systems will have to adapt in order to comply with requirements related to specific areas, like risk management, data quality and governance, logging and traceability, technical documentation, transparency, human oversight, and accuracy, as outlined in the European Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. As the standardisation process for AI is expected to remain iterative and, so far, there are no European standards on AI fully covering the c

Are you geeky about tech policy and love all things online? Then come work with the best tech policy publication in India. MediaNama is looking for a tech journalist. The post MediaNama is hiring Tech Journalist appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Aligned language models refuse harmful requests, but a one-line prefill ("Sure, here is") strips the refusal. We ask where and how it fails. The harm representation stays intact: on the prompts the attack flips to compliance, a linear probe reads harm as high as on the refused ones (0.91-0.98), while behavioral refusal drops to chance. This holds across four models and three families (1.5-3.8B, and at 14B). Refusal is therefore a shallow, response-site computation. We localize it to an early win

New hyperscale data centers can't set up shop in New York for up to a year now that Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has signed the nation's first statewide moratorium. But a bill passed by the state legislature that could restrict even more developments still awaits her signature. The order blocks new environmental permits for data […]

In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.

Australia's eSafety Commissioner says major online platforms continue to have significant gaps in detecting child sexual exploitation, grooming and sexual extortion. The post Lowdown: Australian regulator finds major gaps in platforms’ detection of child sexual exploitation appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

To AI-Proof Lawyers, Some Law Schools Restrict Technology kathryn.palmer… Tue, 07/14/2026 - 03:00 AM Last week, the University of Chicago Law School announced a ban on laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom. The goal is to help students develop critical oral argument skills, which AI likely won’t take over from human lawyers any time soon. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

Under New Policy, NSF Won’t Fund Research Involving Chinese Scientists Katherine Knott Tue, 07/14/2026 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Katherine Knott

The European Commission plans legislation to restrict social media access for children under 13 across the EU following recommendations from an expert panel. The post EU moves to restrict social media access for children under 13 appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Labor MP says ‘a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work’ was a founding principle of the ALP as media union calls for tougher new rules on AI use of creative work Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Labor MP Ed Husic says any moves to water down copyright law to benefit AI companies would be “going against the ethos” of the party and undermining the principle of “a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work”. Husic also

arXiv:2607.10620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The economic value of data arises from its flow across organizations and national borders. Yet increasingly stringent data governance regimes are turning cross-border transfer into an institutionally constrained sequential decision, in which firms repeatedly weigh compliance costs against the value of data flows. From the perspective of a data-exporting firm, this paper develops an institutionally anchored decision support system. It converts regul

arXiv:2607.10802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning is usually introduced through the Bellman update, yet the equation often remains abstract to undergraduates: they watch policy arrows converge but rarely observe how each value is computed or why an action is chosen. We present Q-Learning Lab, a single-file, browser-based, bilingual (Thai/English) tool for teaching tabular Q-learning that requires no installation. Beyond the usual gridworld visualization - color-coded Q-value

arXiv:2607.11314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The promise of AI literacy ``for all'' confronts a structural challenge embedded in how nations organise secondary computer science education. In most systems, a general-track subject -- Digital Literacy, ICT, TIC, or SNT -- bears the weight of universal AI literacy, while a specialist Informatics course serves STEM pathways separately. Yet the content and depth of the general track are shaped by governance decisions made largely with reference to

arXiv:2607.11676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crafa's algorithmic analysis of the Italian electoral law (D.P.R. 361/1957, as amended by Law 165/2017, the Rosatellum) showed that the statutory text distributing proportional seats among territories (Art. 83(1)(h)) admits at least three algorithmic interpretations, which can elect different people from the same votes. We test this empirically: we implement the full seat-allocation pipeline (Arts. 77, 83, 83-bis, 84, 85) and run the three interpre

arXiv:2607.09685v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Policy models often assume that the relationship between a policy instrument and its outcome remains stable across institutional conditions. In adaptive socio-technical systems this assumption may fail: regulatory change can alter incentives, agents can respond strategically, and the mapping from policy variables to aggregate outcomes can change. This paper studies such regime change as a transfer-learning problem in adaptive multi-agent systems.

arXiv:2607.11127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Organizations and regulators increasingly consult large language models (LLMs) for regulatory-compliance questions, yet a wrong statutory citation can silently propagate into legal advice, compliance documentation, and policy decisions. We introduce a bilingual benchmark of 120 questions probing whether freely accessible LLMs fabricate article citations for two data-protection instruments: the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the

Current regulations not ready for the change.

On April 18, 2026, President Trump issued Executive Order (E.O.) 14401, "Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness", acknowledging that individuals suffering from serious mental illness may not always respond to existing therapies. This request for information (RFI) solicits stakeholder feedback on training and care delivery models that could be used to ensure safe and effective delivery of potential future Food and Drug Administration (FDA)- approved psychedelic drugs, includin

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 Michigan Advisory Committee (Committee) to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will hold public meetings via Zoom. The purpose of the first meeting is to begin to hear from experts on the committee's study topic of Artificial Intelligence and Civil Rights in Michigan, and continue briefing discussion and planning at t

In this final rule, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to provide enhanced favorable treatment for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Specifically, BIS is removing the UAE from Country Groups D:3 and D:4 and adding the UAE to Country Group A:5. More license exceptions will now be available, including Strategic Trade Authorization (STA) for the UAE Government and approved commercial entities in the UAE. STA will authorize the export, reexport

The interaction between Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and Human Rights Law (HRL) is gaining increasing attention in the literature. Scholars analyse both positive and negative interactions, with risks and harms bearing a stronger emphasis. Amid growing contributions to the field, a methodical synthesis of the literature is missing. This article fills this gap. We begin by mapping the interaction between AI and HRL, focusing on the types of AI applications, the impacted human rights,

AI agents are outpacing identity governance.

Benchslapped By His Own Petard : Judge nixes Trump v. IRS settlement citing administration's unitary executive nonsense . Todd Blanche Loses Lindsey Graham : Contentious confirmation hearing set to begin this week will have to go ahead without Lindsey Graham after the senator died over the weekend (perhaps he'll be dealing with Graham's sister, who has been tapped to fill out his term ). Yale Law Lost The Top Spot In The 2026 U.S. News Rankings : And the school's placement is even worse in this

Lawmakers must weigh three competing state bills proposing bans ranging from 180 days to three years.

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 1. The United States relies on a strong chemical manufacturing sector to support industries like energy, national defense, agriculture, and health care. These facilities produce essential inputs for critical infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, medical sterilization, semiconductors, and national defense systems. Maintaining a robust domestic chemical […] The post Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote America

Enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) deployments face a critical governance gap: while LLM generation cost is metered per token, the retrieval layer - vector memory, similarity compute, and embedding API calls - remains an unattributed shared cost, enabling invisible cross-subsidization among tenants. We present Cost-Governed RAG, an architecture that integrates a codebook-oblivious vector index (TurboVec) with a multi-tenant LLM governance gateway, creating a unified observability st

Over 150 students and 26 organizations told Yale to stop negotiating away the rule of law. The post Yale Law Students Advise Their Own University: Knock Off This ‘Obey In Advance’ Nonsense appeared first on Above the Law .

Utility regulators in Washington, Ohio, and Connecticut call FCC’s proposed recertification unnecessary.

The old legal instinct to pause, assess, and draw hard boundaries no longer works. The post Carolyn Herzog On Why Legal Leaders Need Optimism, Not Certainty appeared first on Above the Law .

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 discussions thereof. For both content moderation paradi