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As agentic AI systems are increasingly applied to cyber-physical environments, their evaluation requires assessment of both task performance and trustworthiness. In decentralized energy markets, autonomous agents may improve market utility, but may also exploit invalid physical data, create artificial liquidity, and produce unstable governance decisions. Therefore, we propose SolarChain-Eval, a physics-constrained benchmark for evaluating trustworthy economic agents. It formulates market governa

On June 29, CDT filed comments calling on the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to withdraw proposed amendments to regulations on equal access to housing under HUD’s Community Planning and Development programs. HUD’s current regulations require funding recipients under these programs to have nondiscriminatory policies and procedures ensuring that a person seeking housing […] The post CDT Comment Opposes Proposed Amendments to HUD’s Equal Access Rule appeared first on Center for D

Top-level pressure and obscure procedures breathe new life into a controversial proposal to allow scanning for online child sexual abuse material.

Under the new policy, commanders across the service must archive records and deactivate unauthorized organizational accounts within 30 days. The post New directive from Army leadership centralizes and restricts social media accounts appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Today, 9 July, the European Parliament voted to revive the interim derogation from the ePrivacy Directive, commonly known as “Chat Control 1.0” (Regulation (EU) 2021/1232), which provides the legal basis for the voluntary, indiscriminate scanning of private communications for known and new Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), and for the solicitation of children. This vote […] The post Return of Mass Scanning of Private Communications through Undemocratic Procedure appeared first on Center for De

Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. This past June, Minsk City Court convicted Aksana Valvachova on national […]

LLM-based ASR adapted to regulated domains such as banking is bottlenecked by privacy: real speech is costly and legally constrained to collect, making synthetic text-to-speech (TTS) an attractive substitute. Yet synthetic speech stays acoustically mismatched with real recordings, and work on this gap has stayed within supervised fine-tuning (SFT). We instead turn to reinforcement learning, and show that Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) extracts far more from the same synthetic speech t

Colorado watered down its AI legislation but may still face litigation from the Department of Justice.

The vote means member countries must now decide whether to accept the updated proposal.

National UK law firm Stone King has appointed Jas Bassi as its inaugural IT director, marking a significant milestone in the firm’s continued investment in technology, digital transformation and information […] The post Exclusive: Stone King appoints Jas Bassi as IT director appeared first on Legal IT Insider .

Crime linkage analysis is used in many countries to identify series of offences that may have been committed by the same individual. In practice, specialist analysts manually search for behavioural and situational connections across large crime databases, an effort that is time-consuming, cognitively demanding, and can involve repeated exposure to disturbing material. To support this work, an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled decision-support tool was co-developed with a UK law enforcement ag

In the span of two weeks, the White House issued two of the most ambitious artificial intelligence directives in American history. On June 2, President Donald Trump signed an executive order mandating rapid AI adoption and hardened cyber defense across the government. Three days later, National Security Presidential Memorandum 11 directed every element of the national security enterprise to accelerate AI adoption, anchored by four pillars: adoption, adaptation, assurance, and accountability.The

Governance is the bridge between technological possibility and responsible use, and if neglected, AI will amplify its weakest traits.

Commission Opinion on the assessment of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated content Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/09/2026 - 09:03 Commission and AI Board consider this voluntary code as an effective mean to facilitate compliance with the AI Act transparency obligations. On july 8, the Commission concluded that the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated content adequately covers the obligations provided for in Articles 50(2), (4) and (5) AI Act and facilitates their

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently shown strong performance in visual understanding, yet they often lack temporal awareness, particularly in egocentric settings where reasoning depends on the correct ordering and evolution of events. This deficiency stems in part from training objectives that fail to explicitly reward temporal reasoning and instead rely on frame-level spatial shortcuts. To address this limitation, we propose Temporal Global Policy Optimization (TGPO), a reinf

On-policy distillation offers dense, per-token supervision for training reasoning models; however, it remains unclear under which conditions this signal is beneficial and under which it is detrimental. Which teacher model should be used, and in the case of self-distillation, which specific context should serve as the supervisory signal? Does the optimal choice vary from one token to the next? At present, addressing these questions typically requires costly training runs whose aggregate performan

With numerous 250th anniversary events packed into a few months, officials in Washington, D.C., said this summer has presented a "unique" challenge in terms of technology, communications and emergency management.

Dynan, Karen, Doug Elmendorf, and Louise Sheiner. "How Might Fiscal Policy Respond to the Rise of Artificial Intelligence?" The Forces Shaping America’s Fiscal Future, University of Utah, David Eccles ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to reshape actuarial practice, particularly in domains that require reasoning over unstructured documents, heterogeneous data sources, and regulated decision workflows. Actuaries now face a design space that ranges from traditional rule-based automation to large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-agent ``agentic'' systems that plan, retrieve, call tools, and reflect. This paper examines how these emerging architecture

Defense Department CIO Kirsten Davies said her office is shifting away from its traditional role as a backend policy shop to become a forward-leaning strategic unit.

AI systems increasingly participate in their own improvement: revising their outputs, adapting their own harnesses during deployment, training on data they generate, and, increasingly, conducting AI research itself. This literature is described under a vocabulary ("self-refine," "self-reward," "self-play," "self-evolve") that conflates fundamentally different ambitions. We survey 1,250 arXiv papers (2024-2026) along two axes: what the system improves -- its behavior in deployment, its policy thr

ITU’s AI for Good Global Summit brings world leaders, AI pioneers and breakthrough technologies to Geneva 23 June 2026 - The world's leading platform for AI solutions, skills, standards and policy ...

Specialised bodies measure how member states respect standards: the Group of States against Corruption monitoring anti-corruption efforts and the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice ...

Members of the House of Lords reached the end of detailed examination of the Financial Services and Markets Bill in committee stage on Wednesday 8 July. The Financial Services and Markets Bill aims to ...

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Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from generative systems to agentic AI capable of autonomously planning and executing tasks. Widely characterized as the Year of Agentic AI, 2025 marked accelerated development and deployment, introducing new ethical and governance challenges. This paper presents a systematic review of the emerging literature on agentic AI governance. Our analysis identifies features that distinguish agentic AI from traditional systems and why it warrants targeted gover

These are the independent voices that help me make sense of online speech, regulation and the weird, messy business of governing the internet.

International man of mystery and legal AI guru, Oz Benamram, has joined US law firm Pillsbury as its first Chief AI Officer. It’s understood that ...

Europe keeps asking where its technology champions are. In Google Android, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) offered part of the answer: build a successful platform, and Brussels may spend the next decade treating its architecture as evidence. The CJEU’s final judgment in Google Android, handed down last week, will be celebrated ... Android and the Art of Regulatory Self-Harm The post Android and the Art of Regulatory Self-Harm appeared first on Truth on the Market .

Introduction New research from AI Now demonstrates a critical attack vector in popular AI agents, built by Anthropic and OpenAI, when used for defensive purposes that actually turn the agent against its user. Read the full blog post explaining the proof-of-concept exploit and a policy brief with key takeaways below. The post Double Agents: Defensive AI Agents Magnify Cyber Risks appeared first on AI Now Institute .

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Topline Summary AI Now’s latest research demonstrates a critical attack vector on popular AI agents, built by Anthropic and OpenAI, when used for defensive purposes that actually turn the agent against its user. Attackers can use these models’ existing weaknesses to execute malicious code on a system deploying an AI agent when used for often-advertised […] The post Policy Brief: Friendly Fire appeared first on AI Now Institute .

The UK’s immigration and asylum bill has proposed restricting how the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is interpreted and applied in the UK to make it easier to deport migrants. For years, critics have argued that the ECHR undermines the UK’s border security by prohibiting deportations on the basis of Article 8, the right […]

Legatics has launched its own ‘Data Rooms’ capability, which enables law firms to manage transactions and share confidential documents within a single workflow, and as ...

The post Washington Law Says to Alert the Public When Doctors Are Accused of Misconduct. It Can Take Months. appeared first on ProPublica .

As AI-generated media flood our information ecosystems, detecting synthetic content has become an urgent regulatory challenge – in fact, not one challenge but many, as synthetic media breeds problems across a range of digital contexts, including deepfakes and disinformation, scamming, and content moderation. The EU's new "Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content" – the first concrete articulation of Article 50(2) AI Act, the EU's approach to AI-content detection – gives sensible

The UN Security Council is holding an open debate Tuesday honouring the promise of international law to survivors of sexual violence in conflict as more reports emerge about warring parties using rape ...

China introduced three new regulatory developments addressing AI ethics, AI agents and anthropomorphic AI, which reflect a regulatory shift from broad AI principles toward more detailed, operational ...