Regulation

Your tour of all things related to lawyer and judicial ethics, with University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson. The post Legal Ethics Roundup: ABA Opines Gov Lawyers Must Report Unlawful Conduct, Toronto Lawyer Suspended Over AI, Senate Bills On Judges’ Finances/FOIA & More appeared first on Above the Law .

FOIA makes strange bedfellows... The post Law And Chaos + Heritage Foundation?!?! appeared first on Above the Law .

Language model alignment aims to make model behavior reliably reflect desirable properties such as helpfulness, safety, and instruction following. Current approaches typically use supervised fine-tuning on demonstrations or reinforcement learning with rewards derived from verifiers or human feedback. These paradigms leave an important question underexplored: can demonstrations alone yield an implicit reward that can be inspected, reused, and optimized on-policy to align AI? Motivated by inverse

The first-ever case of an artificial intelligence agent going rogue coincides with the EU's major new powers to regulate AI. But Europe's leverage may be limited by the U.S.-China two-way race for AI supremacy.

Banning things people use in everyday life won’t work. The post Banning Technology: A Balk That Should Be Called appeared first on Above the Law .

Autonomous LLM agents processing mixed-confidentiality data face severe security risks from prompt injection attacks and reasoning errors. While dynamic Information Flow Control (IFC) provides structural security guarantees, traditional taint tracking permanently taints an agent's context upon reading unvetted data, severely restricting downstream utility. We present APPA (Agentic Permissions Policy Algebra), an IFC framework that resolves this usability bottleneck through engine-managed context

Large-scale video platforms process millions of uploads hourly, requiring moderation systems that can localize when and where policy violations occur within each video. Processing every frame is infeasible at scale, so systems are constrained to sparse inputs of 8 to 16 frames per video. Yet state-of-the-art multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are pretrained on dense sequences of hundreds of frames, creating a fundamental mismatch between training and deployment conditions. This mismatch ca

Security Operations Centers increasingly rely on automated mapping of Cyber Threat Intelligence reports to MITRE ATT&CK, yet extractor outputs remain fallible and are often stored without the evidence, provenance, and validation history needed to decide whether an individual mapping should be trusted. We present TRACE- CTI, a post-extraction claim-governance framework that preserves run-level Predictions, aggregates them into configuration-level GraphAssertions, materializes setup-deduplicated c

The old tightly regulated party broadcast model is dead — for better and for worse

Maintenance regulations are complex legal texts that are difficult to exploit when addressing a specific case and challenging to integrate into operational systems. This paper presents a two-stage LLM-assisted workflow for French maintenance regulations: ontology engineering from a SEMLEG-based core ontology, followed by construction of an ontology-grounded French legal knowledge graph. The first stage consists in the open extraction of typed entities and triples from a stratified corpus sample,

Here comes more Milbank money! The post Summer Surprise: Milbank Announces Special Bonuses Up To $25K appeared first on Above the Law .

Expertise without curiosity becomes brittle. The post Marco Imperiale Is Right: Lawyers Don’t Know Their Clients Nearly As Well As They Think appeared first on Above the Law .

OneAdvanced’s tenth annual Legal Trends Report at the start of 2026 raised five key challenges for the legal sector. Now we’re halfway through the year, has there been any progress […] The post Webinar: Six months on – Are law firms making progress on their biggest challenges? appeared first on Legal IT Insider .

Mit dem Digital Omnibus wurden einige KI-Pflichten verschoben – aber längst nicht alle. Wir klären, was Nutzer von SAPs Joule sofort anpacken müssen.

International recruitment in France requires navigating a layered legal framework absent from existing legal AI benchmarks. We present a publicly available benchmark and first comparative evaluation for this domain, covering permit-type recommendation, required-document retrieval, and legal citation coverage. Comparing a parametric LLM baseline against dense retrieval augmentation at two model scales (Qwen3.5-9B and -27B) on 52 annotated synthetic profiles, we find that retrieval improves admini

Can the law tell a company that it is no longer free to destroy its own products? Among the powers traditionally associated with ownership is the freedom to determine the fate of one’s property. Whether doing so is economically sensible or environmentally responsible is another matter. However, as of 19 July 2026, the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), which entered into force in 2024, prohibits large companies from destroying unsold clothing, accessories and footwear, subject

Kevin M. Warsh, who has said the Federal Reserve has “no tolerance” for elevated inflation, must decide whether he wants to push for an interest-rate increase at this week’s policy meeting.

AI systems already govern. They rank speech and allocate attention, filter applicants and triage claims. The dominant frame for AI governance, alignment, asks whether such systems pursue the right objectives safely. It cannot answer a prior question: by what right are those objectives set and enforced? This Article argues that legitimacy is an autonomous regulatory objective, distinct from alignment and not secured by it. Legitimacy here is sociological: the belief among those subject to power t

Healthcare interoperability requires AI systems to produce structured outputs conforming to standardized schemas including ICD-10 for diagnostic coding, CPT for procedure billing, and HL7 FHIR for data exchange. While large language models demonstrate clinical reasoning capabilities, their integration into electronic health record systems faces a critical barrier: schema noncompliance. We evaluate three open-source models, Qwen2.5 7B, Llama 3.1 8B, and Gemma2 9B, via local deployment across 320

* One of the architects of Kirkland's rise now sees AI as the profession's future. [ WSJ ] * Kalshi angrily rails against Wisconsin law making it illegal to gamble on elections as "voter suppression." Because think of all the voters who might come out to the polls if they were bribed by someone with significant action on the outcome! [ NPR ] * Former DOJ lawyer testified against Blanche, so her state's Republican Senators whipped up their followers who then started sending her death threats. [ M

Drug discovery is a high-cost, high-risk endeavor that is under growing pressure from a market increasingly defined by first-mover advantage. Since the 1950s, the cost of developing new pharmaceuticals has roughly doubled every nine years—a phenomenon known as Eroom’s Law. Today, bringing a new drug to market takes an average of 10-15 years and costs…

For the enterprise, the promise of agentic AI is much more than just a better chatbot. It is software agents that execute business tasks end-to-end across people, business workflows, data, and systems. The platform best-suited to run agents is built with proper CPU capacity, resilient data access, policy-aware tool use, observability, memory management, and the…

As patients increasingly bring AI chatbot advice into exam rooms, where does liability land when that advice goes wrong? Health law attorney Meghan O’Connor said the answer still isn’t clear, but silence is the riskiest response for providers. The post What Happens When Patients Trust AI Over Their Doctor? appeared first on MedCity News .

Traditional API gateways assume deterministic services and simple schemas - assumptions agentic AI breaks. Discover why enterprise engineering leaders are adopting AI Gateways as an evolutionary architecture seam. Centralize guardrails, model routing, agent identity, action policy, and semantic audit within a single control plane to prevent costly incidents while keeping core platforms stable. By Joe Price, Branimir Đurek, Pavlos Migkiros, Trevor Dearham

A new theory about why foreign policy elites aren't worried enough. Plus: Graph of the week.

Shein is reportedly preparing for a Hong Kong IPO as early as late August, with the listing potentially moving into September, according to its draft prospectus and people familiar with the plan. The fast-fashion ecommerce company has cleared key regulatory and listing hurdles, although the filing did not disclose the planned offering size or price […]

“It’s not an argument with two sides, it’s an argument with 10 sides,” one senior administration official tells WIRED about how US AI policy is being shaped.

Key Senate Democrats are balking at the latest version of a cryptocurrency regulation bill over a White House-approved ethics provision that they argue falls short, complicating the bill's chances of passing in the narrow window before lawmakers leave town next month. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), who leads the Senate Banking digital assets subcommittee, unveiled an...

India's finance panel says the Securities Markets Code leaves many cryptocurrencies outside regulation and recommends dedicated legislation. The post Parliamentary finance committee calls for regulatory framework for virtual digital assets appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

More than 20 countries are joining a Trump administration initiative to coordinate next-generation wireless policy, standards and security before 6G reaches consumers.

The Trinity Legal Term ends on Friday 31 July 2026. The summer legal vacation will run until Thursday 1 October 2026 when the Michaelmas Legal Term will begin. On 23 July 2026, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (Lady Carmichael, Chamberlain J and Mr Shaw KC) handed down judgment in Kearney and BBC v Chief Constable of the Police […]

The rulings suggest that lenders operating without a CBK digital credit provider licence may struggle to enforce loan contracts, raising the commercial risks of lending before obtaining regulatory approval.

This is the central question: should clients expect price cuts from law firms and other legal businesses due to legal AI? Because if there is ...

Svalbard is a stark archipelago of glaciers and coal mines lying 650 kilometers (403 miles) north of Norway’s North Cape, roughly halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole. It belongs to Norway but is governed under a 1920 treaty that grants nationals of more than 40 signatory states sweeping economic rights while barring Oslo from constructing naval bases or using the archipelago for “warlike” purposes. Far to the south, in the Baltic Sea between the Finnish and Swedish coasts,

Workforce Pell Is Live. How’s It Going for States? Sara Weissman Mon, 07/27/2026 - 03:00 AM As states work to implement the new policy, only a trickle of programs have qualified. But experts say it’s too early to tell Workforce Pell’s full impact. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

The services include a design-on-demand offering and user experience audits that meet stringent procurement and governance requirements.

As organisations prepare for AI-driven ways of working, the quality, governance and life cycle of information have become business-critical considerations.

The Commission publishes new transparency guidelines and confirms the Code of Practice on AI-generated content, as attention turns to the EU's enforcement powers taking effect on 2 August.

Rising expenditure from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft reflects growing battle over federal policy