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Regulators tighten AI use while capital piles into infrastructure

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Ontario lawyer ordered to pay $31,150 after submitting AI-fabricated case law - Canadian HR Reporter

The Law Society Tribunal (Ontario) ordered suspended lawyer Shahryar Mazaheri to pay $31,150 in costs after he filed motion materials drafted with generative AI that cited fabricated and irrelevant case law. The decision emphasizes the need for human review and oversight of AI outputs.

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eSafety Commissioner reviewing OurDream compliance with Online Safety Act codes and standards

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner contacted OurDream and is considering its compliance with Online Safety Act codes and standards, including obligations related to child sexual exploitation material and age-restricted pornography. The regulator may pursue further action, including civil penalties.

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South Korea plans $10.3B push for physical AI - upi.com

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources announced policy financing of about 16 trillion won (~$10.3B) to accelerate adoption of physical AI via the National Growth Fund–M.AX Frontier Project.

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New Illinois laws starting July 1, 2026: Cocktails-to-go, AI bullying, prediction market regulation and more - CBS News

Illinois laws take effect July 1, 2026, including House Bill 3851 making posting unauthorized AI images cyberbullying in schools. The article also notes other new Illinois laws, including prediction market regulation and related litigation.

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Australia regains Anthropic's Fable AI – but not Mythos - Information Age | ACS

The U.S. Department of Commerce reversed an export ban on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, lifting export controls for Fable while access to Mythos remains limited for some partners. The article describes the change as a withdrawal of the prior license requirement.

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Heuresis: Search Strategies for Autonomous AI Research Agents Across Quality, Diversity and Novelty

Autonomous AI Research promises to accelerate the scientific progress of machine learning. To realise this goal, current Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents need to go beyond just writing code, to mastering the exploration of simultaneously performant, diverse and novel ideas. To this end, we introduce Heuresis, a framework that abstracts the research pipeline into a set of general and composa

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Hardening x402: PII-Safe Agentic Payments via Pre-Execution Metadata Filtering

AI agents that pay for resources via the x402 protocol embed payment metadata - resource URLs, descriptions, and reason strings - in every HTTP payment request. This metadata is transmitted to the payment server and to the centralised facilitator API before any on-chain settlement occurs; neither party is typically bound by a data processing agreement. We present presidio-hardened-x402, the first

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Fraud is Not Just Rarity: A Causal Prototype Attention Approach to Realistic Synthetic Oversampling

Detecting fraudulent credit card transactions remains a significant challenge, due to the extreme class imbalance in real-world data and the often subtle patterns that separate fraud from legitimate activity. Existing research commonly attempts to address this by generating synthetic samples for the minority class using approaches such as GANs, VAEs (Variational Autoencoders), or hybrid generative

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Deconfounded Lifelong Learning for Autonomous Driving via Dynamic Knowledge Spaces

End-to-End autonomous driving (E2E-AD) systems face challenges in lifelong learning, including catastrophic forgetting, difficulty in knowledge transfer across diverse scenarios, and spurious correlations between unobservable confounders and true driving intents. To address these issues, we propose DeLL, a Deconfounded Lifelong Learning framework that integrates a Dirichlet process mixture model (

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LC-QAT: Data-Efficient 2-Bit QAT for LLMs via Linear-Constrained Vector Quantization

Quantization-aware training (QAT) is essential for extremely low-bit large language models (LLMs). Current QAT methods are mainly based on scalar quantization (SQ), which enables efficient optimization but suffers from severe performance degradation at 2-bit precision. On the other hand, vector quantization (VQ) provides substantially higher representational capacity, but its discrete codebook loo

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