Regulation

Lawyers who practice in some areas of the law are often made of tougher stuff than the rest of us. The post Some Practice Areas Are More Stressful Than Others appeared first on Above the Law .

Position your law firm as an approachable source of quality information, and showcase your legal expertise. The post The Death Of Organic Reach On Social: What Lawyers Can Do appeared first on Above the Law .

In a rare combined cybersecurity/squid post, a twenty-nine-year-old squid proxy bug can leak HTTP requests. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.

Law firms and legal departments sit on mountains of electronically stored information. And many have no real system for dealing with it. The post ‘Adventures In Legal Tech’: You, Too, Can Tame Your ESI. Here’s How. appeared first on Above the Law .

The week in appellate news. The post How Appealing Weekly Roundup appeared first on Above the Law .

Lawyers must remember that ethical responsibility cannot be delegated to software. The post Lawyers Do Not Need An AI Ban. They Need An AI Duty Of Care. appeared first on Above the Law .

Agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) extends static RAG by allowing language models to iteratively reason, generate search queries, retrieve evidence, and predict answers. However, it remains challenging for models to decide when to retrieve, whether to use lexical matching or semantic similarity, and how to control context granularity to prevent irrelevant tokens from interfering with agent reasoning. In this paper, we introduce GRASP, a reinforcement learning (RL) framework for trainin

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant paradigm for enhancing LLMs' reasoning capabilities. However, RL algorithms with PPO-Clip are inherently limited by exploration collapse. Subsequent works remain primarily heuristic and fail to identify the essential cause of PPO-Clip's failure. This work reveals the fundamental flaw of PPO-Clip: it implicitly measures policy discrepancy using Euclidean metric, which is theoretically inconsistent with the intrinsic geometry on the policy Riemanni

Matching Biglaw salaries allows elite boutiques to compete on the things associates care about after the paycheck. The post When Pay Is Equal, Boutique Firms Have The Edge appeared first on Above the Law .

Kansas City-based Frontier Schools is on track to open Columbia’s first charter school in the fall of 2027. At this point, Frontier Schools has hired a contractor and is looking for possible locations for the charter school in the city. The Missouri Board of Education approved the opening of the STEM-based elementary school in April, allowing it […]

European Union authorities said the company’s use of “addictive design” violated a digital safety law.

The proliferation of agentic AI systems across enterprise and public-sector contexts has outpaced the capacity of general-purpose AI risk frameworks to classify and govern them. In this paper, we introduce the TrustX Agent Risk Classification Framework, a structured, repeatable instrument that can be applied to seven types of agentic AI systems and is grounded in foundational pre-existing AI governance frameworks. At the core of the framework is a twelve-dimension scoring rubric that robustly qu

What Parents of Young Kids Want: Insights from the 2026 National Parent Survey For over 25 years, New America’s insights and policy solutions have helped usher in sweeping, long-term change. Discover ...

The shake-up raises questions about voting system certification, federal election security coordination, and the commission’s ability to approve key policy decisions.

New York school districts will soon begin revamping math instruction under a new law aimed at improving test scores — but the effort comes amid sharp debate over how math should be taught. “Back to Basics in Math,” passed as part of the state budget last month, requires school districts to use “evidence-based” methods in elementary […]

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) use token-weighted voting to allocate resources, set protocol rules, and legitimate collective decisions. Yet, support in DAO voting is strikingly concentrated. What happens inside the ballot that produces this concentration? We study DAOs' governance at the proposal-choice level, linking each choice's voting-power share to three observable features: whether it expresses an approval-oriented stance, where it appears in the choice list, and whether it

The European Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded it disable “key addictive features” like infinite scrolling. The EU’s executive arm issued a fresh set of charges against Meta Platforms as part of its investigation under the 27-nation bloc’s strict digital rule book known as the Digital Services Act . The sweeping set of regulations from Brussels requires tech platforms to protect internet users unde

Age restrictions on accounts may be more of a stopgap because industry compliance is already falling short. Tech giants are struggling to follow the laws without affecting users.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night, federal lawmakers introduced the People-First Chatbot Act, a clear framework to make chatbots safer for everyone and address the harms caused by AI chatbots that were rushed into the public’s hands with little oversight or transparency. EPIC applauds Reps. Valerie Foushee and Greg Casar for sponsoring this important bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night, federal lawmakers introduced the People-First Chatbot Act, a clear framework to make chatbots safer for everyone and address the harms caused by AI chatbots that were rushed into the public’s hands with little oversight or transparency. EPIC applauds Reps. Valerie Foushee and Greg Casar for sponsoring this important bill. This legislation was crafted to ensure that the companies operating AI chatbots provide users with clear disclosures, material safeguards, and co

Co-authored with Kelly Brandmeyer, FPF U.S. Policy Intern In a two-day span from June 28 to June 30, the New Jersey legislature introduced and passed A5328, amending New Jersey’s comprehensive privacy law and establishing new data broker and “data collector” registration requirements. The new data broker law has a uniquely broad scope and high financial […]

This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research.

Regulators say features such as infinite scroll contribute to "compulsive use" and "unhealthy habits".

Online retail giant Shein Global Holdings has secured approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to seek an initial public offering in Hong Kong, a long-awaited step for the firm after its attempts to list in New York or London stalled. The firm plans to issue up to 341.6 million shares and list on the Hong Kong stock exchange, according to a Friday statement by the CSRC. Shein previously sought to go public in New York or London, according to earlier media reports, but...

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to summarize and evaluate policy-relevant information, but it remains unclear whether their judgments are implicitly shaped by geopolitical cues. I study this question with an endorsement experiment in which four LLMs evaluate the same international economic and security policies after each policy is randomly described as supported by the United States, the European Union, China, or Russia. In the numeric-only condition, GPT-5, Claude Sonnet, an

The organisations that will lead in AI will be those that identify their power law use cases fastest − and scale them before their competitors do.

Amid live coding sessions and Silicon Valley optimism, the UN’s AI for Good summit wrestled with an urgent question: Can global governance catch up before the technology races beyond its control?

EAP's exports now face higher trade restrictions, elevated policy uncertainty, and slowing global growth. And its workers must cope with the growing use of robots, AI, and digital platforms. Download ...

AI creative workflows are reshaping how teams create, moving beyond content generation to editable, collaborative experiences that boost productivity. At the same time, enterprises are demanding trusted AI solutions that balance ease of use with security and compliance. With all that in mind, Canva Pty Ltd. is working to address enterprise concerns about generative AI […] The post Canva targets enterprise creativity with trusted AI creative workflows appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Fully autonomous weapon systems need to comply with International Humanitarian Law and underlying ethical principles. This requires the ability to recognize not only objects or persons to be targeted but also protected persons or objects. Such sophisticated object classification abilities, if achievable at all, would have to utilize machine learning techniques. These come with well-known limitations to predictability, reliability and explainability. This article argues such limitations could be

This study introduces a hybrid neuro-symbolic framework that achieves deterministic detection of statutory inconsistency in complex law. We use the U.S. Internal Revenue Code (IRC) for our investigation because its complexity makes it a fertile domain for identifying conflicts. Our research advances a solution for detecting inconsistent provisions by combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with a symbolic reasoner. To evaluate this approach, we conducted experiments using GPT-4o, GPT-5, and Prolo

Katerina's research interests lie at the intersection of labour economics, financial markets, applied econometrics, and policy-engaged scholarship. She is a Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant at the ...

Warehouse operations are governed by Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that encode complex, multi-system decision logic, which must be executed reliably under strict time constraints, yet LLM agents lack mechanisms to enforce procedural compliance and degrade under the context overload full SOP specifications introduce. We present Eluna, a production-deployed agentic system for reliable SOP execution. Eluna is a graph-guided, multi-agent framework that encodes SOPs as directed acyclic graphs

Last week, the House voted on the KIDS Act , a disjointed package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package combines a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act ( KOSA), with several other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements, and new regulations. Different parts of the bill pressure online services to impose different age-gating schemes, using different standards. EFF opposed this bill , along with many of our members and

This article was originally published by IAPP linked here. Vietnam’s approach to artificial intelligence regulations crosses many topics and sectors, with a common theme emerging: human‑centered, state‑supervised and legally accountable. The country’s policy direction is clearly reflected in its first standalone Law on Artificial Intelligence, which took effect March 2026. At the same time, Vietnam [...] The post Vietnam clarifies AI authorship, training data and copyright liability: A comparati

This afternoon, the Massachusetts Senate passed the Protecting Children from Addictive Social Feeds Act, which provides kids with important protections from harmful and invasive platform features. EPIC applauds Massachusetts’ Senators for committing to protecting kids online by regulating social media platform design. “For too long, social media companies have relied on invasive data collection and manipulative design practices to drive engagement, often at the expense of young people’s safety a

Scaling robust driving policies is fundamentally bottlenecked by the scarcity of edge cases in curated datasets. While the real world continuously captures these critical events, such long-tail events remain underutilized when collected from heterogeneous sources. Specifically, diverse but valuable in-the-wild long-tail videos lack the full view coverage required for training policy models, often missing multi-view poses or originating solely from monocular dash cameras. This modality gap preven

Opinion: AI policy researcher Keller Scholl argues that a marketplace of AI auditors will always prioritize speed and cost over safety

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is planning to expropriate money from its core science programmes to fund an initiative from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), ...

As agentic AI accelerates enterprise transformation, data sovereignty is crystallizing from a compliance checkbox into a foundational strategic imperative — one that determines not just where data lives, but who captures the economic value it generates. The debate is particularly acute in Europe, where nations are pressing to retain both data residency and the commercial […] The post Data sovereignty emerges as the defining moat in the agentic AI era appeared first on SiliconANGLE .