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China's telecom regulator has issued a four-part control framework for phones, tablets and wearables with pre-installed agents. Developers must document compatibility; manufacturers must report major and over-the-air changes; and app platforms are told not to let agents force access without a developer declaration.
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A five-page consultation would require manufacturers of industrial, service and special-purpose robots made in China to register products, mark every unit before factory release and file the used code within 20 working days. It is not yet a final rule.
Read and comment →Health & Life Sciences
A peer-reviewed comparison gave five commercial language models the same 227 questions from one US Doctor of Pharmacy course. Overall scores clustered between 89.4% and 91.2%, while image questions and the highest Bloom category were materially weaker.
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Japan approved ¥10 billion for immediate cyber measures after repeated intrusions and data leaks. The package funds AI-assisted vulnerability checks and creates new response teams, but most capabilities still have to be built and independently tested.
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A peer-reviewed framework estimates time-direction asymmetry in autoregressive generators without enumerating every history. GPT-2 and Qwen3-4B-Base assigned larger sentence-level irreversibility to causally ordered text in limited tests, while token-level results were dominated by syntax.
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Two NeurIPS-accepted studies attack the problem at different stages: null-space projection repairs suspect LoRA adapters, while expert quarantine changes training so triggered behaviour can be switched off. Results span constructed attacks and open 7B–13B models, not production supply chains.
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