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Despite viewing itself as a global pioneer in artificial intelligence regulation, the European Union's own institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg are grappling with the consequences of uncontrolled generative AI use. According to a report by German tech media heise online citing independent news platform Rapporteur, the EU Parliament and Commission are being overwhelmed by automatically generated content, causing organizational problems that are difficult to manage even with technical assistance.

Alessandro Chiocchetti, Secretary-General of the European Parliament, recently warned of a rapid increase in amendments, parliamentary questions, petitions, and requests for access to files driven by generative AI. Parliament President Roberta Metsola also expressed concern, urging members not to delegate democratic responsibility to algorithms and emphasizing that AI-drafted amendments should not replace genuine dialogue with colleagues or direct contact with voters. On Thursday, the Parliament adopted a resolution on AI in administration and democracy, with new administrative guidelines expected soon.

The impact is visible in daily operations. Interpreters translating documents into 24 official languages using traditional machine translation without AI have encountered "hallucinations" in texts submitted by representatives, including references to non-existent laws. The Parliament's legal service reportedly spends days verifying these AI-generated claims. Observers note that some parliamentarians use AI to simulate activity with minimal effort to improve their standing in internal rankings.

In response, Irish Member of the European Parliament Barry Andrews introduced an internal directive prohibiting his own use of AI in votes, plenary speeches, press releases, and commission questions. Transparently, the directive itself notes it was created with AI assistance. Conversely, Swedish MEP Jörgen Warborn argues that AI significantly boosts productivity, noting that the Industrial Accelerator Act received over 5,000 amendments; while AI should not be used solely to overload the system, he welcomes greater efficiency.

Pressure extends to other bodies. A senior EU official told Rapporteur that complaints to the European Ombudsman have increased by 50% due to AI, threatening to bury the institution in paperwork. Estonian AI expert and Commission advisor Luukas Ilves describes this as a "flood" by autonomous software agents. While the EU is developing its own AI tools to analyze internal documents and keep sensitive data away from US cloud services, administrative inertia makes it challenging to compete with commercial investments from the US.

San Francisco-based startup LangChain has raised $300 million in new funding, bringing its valuation to $3 billion. According to SiliconANGLE, citing The Wall Street Journal, the round was led by Alphabet Inc.'s CapitalG fund, with participation from IVP, Sapphire Ventures, GIC, and DFJ Growth.

LangChain is best known for its open-source framework that simplifies the development of artificial intelligence agents by connecting them to large language models, integrating tools, and managing system prompts. Beyond the core framework, the company offers LangGraph for multi-agent workflows and Deep Agents for complex task automation. These tools have seen widespread adoption, with previous disclosures indicating approximately 90 million monthly downloads.

The company generates revenue through LangSmith, a commercial suite for building, maintaining, and observing AI agents in production. Major tech firms such as Autodesk and Cisco Systems are listed as customers of this platform.

With the new capital, LangChain plans to nearly double its headcount to 850 employees by the end of 2027. The hiring focus will be on infrastructure experts, AI engineers, sales, and marketing personnel to support the expansion of its commercial offerings and technical capabilities.

Non-profit research institute Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), in collaboration with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, NVIDIA, and Johns Hopkins University, has released XYBench, a new benchmark comprising over 8,000 questions designed to test how AI assistants respond to requests based on misconceptions. The benchmark targets the 'XY problem': a user wants to achieve goal X but assumes approach Y will work, thus asking for help with Y while ignoring the actual issue. For example, a user might ask how to keep frosting from sliding off cupcakes, when the real problem is that the cupcakes are too warm to frost.

The research team evaluated models including Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Qwen3.5-9B, and DeepSeek-V4 Pro. The results showed that while these models often suggested solutions, they tended to keep their answers focused on the user's original, mistaken request rather than steering them toward their underlying goal. Compared to human reference answers, all five models were less likely to steer users away from the mistaken approach and toward a solution suited to their goal.

XYBench measures model responses across three dimensions: pragmatic solution (whether it addresses both the stated request and the intended goal), pragmatic emphasis (whether the answer focuses on the stated request or the intended goal), and misconception identification (whether it discourages the mistaken approach and guides toward the correct one). Experiments indicated that even when the user's potential goal was explicitly provided, models still underperformed humans in misconception identification, and sometimes performed worse, suggesting that detecting intent is only part of the challenge; models must also act on it when it diverges from the literal request.

The benchmark won the Best Resource Paper Award at EMNLP 2026. Data, code, and the paper are publicly available for researchers to evaluate whether prompting or training improvements can help models better identify misconceptions and offer more effective alternatives.

Humanoid robot researchers face a problem that seems simple but is actually tricky: human demonstrations capture the coordination and rhythm of natural movement, but robots cannot directly copy the same joint motions because their limb proportions, joint structures, and ranges of motion differ. John Malaska, Senior Product Manager at NVIDIA, provides a detailed explanation in a technical blog post about the adaptation pipeline of the open-source tool SOMA Retargeter, describing which stages make up the pipeline, what conflicts each stage addresses, and how configuration options affect the final output.

The pipeline consists of three stages. The first stage is scaling: mapping motion targets on the human skeleton proportionally to the size of the target robot. The second stage is inverse kinematics (IK) solving: using the Newton physics engine, built on NVIDIA Warp, to find a set of joint angles for each frame that allows the robot to get as close as possible to the scaled target positions. The third stage is post-processing correction, most typically foot-plant correction—detecting contact intervals and adjusting foot trajectories to eliminate sliding artifacts. These three stages address problems at different levels: scaling resolves size differences, inverse kinematics resolves joint reachability constraints, and post-processing correction resolves contact consistency.

Malaska uses a source action of a one-handed wave to illustrate the role of reference pose alignment: if the Booster T1's reference pose is not aligned with the SOMA human reference, the robot will extend both arms outward; after alignment, one hand waves beside its head while the other arm rests naturally at its side. The input motion and IK parameters are identical; the only variable is the alignment of the reference pose. This example isolates the effect of the pose-mapping variable, demonstrating that while scaling solves size differences, incorrect pose mapping causes the robot to perform semantically incorrect actions.

When a robot cannot simultaneously satisfy the targets for all body parts, IK weights determine which parts take priority. SOMA Retargeter provides an experimental IK weight optimizer that automatically adjusts weights using a short segment of motion representative of the target task—it repeatedly retargets these motions, checking the tightness of the robot's following of the targets and the smoothness of the motion, and saves the selected weights as a new configuration. Malaska recommends tuning the configuration with representative motions first, then processing larger motion collections through headless batch retargeting.

The output is a CSV file containing the robot's root position, orientation, and joint angles for each frame. These trajectories can be converted into motion library formats such as SONIC or ProtoMotions for use in reinforcement learning policy training. During training, the policy learns how to convert retargeted references into actual control actions; during simulation, balance, ground contact, actuator limits, and tracking accuracy are evaluated.

According to Tom's Hardware, Malaysia and Singapore are intensifying scrutiny of AI hardware shipments amid concerns about circumventing U.S. export restrictions on China. Malaysia's Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry is investigating whether Speedmatrix, the Malaysian subsidiary of Singapore-based Megaspeed, re-exported any AI processors and servers imported for local data centers. Despite months of investigation, authorities have yet to determine if such shipments occurred or violated Malaysian laws. Malaysia introduced restrictions on the export, transit, and trans-shipment of advanced U.S.-developed AI accelerators in July 2025, requiring companies to obtain permits.

Meanwhile, Singaporean authorities have brought 41 criminal charges against Shi Bingzhe, a 34-year-old Chinese citizen who served as director of Superphi and chief operating officer of NJ Global Financial. Prosecutors allege that these two companies purchased 917 servers containing restricted Nvidia hardware from Aperia International in 41 transactions between May 2024 and February 2025, with reason to believe the servers were linked to criminal activity. The case now involves five individuals and six companies. If convicted, Shi faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of S$500,000 per charge.

In response, Megaspeed announced on November 12 that it had hired a U.S. law firm to conduct a comprehensive inventory of its AI GPUs and independently assess its compliance with U.S. export-control regulations. The company confirmed it had cooperated with inspections by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Megaspeed CEO James Tan Yong Pong stressed that compliance and transparency are priorities, though the company did not disclose the number or models of GPUs owned, nor the specific findings of BIS inspections.

These developments highlight the critical role of Malaysia and Singapore in the supply chain of restricted AI hardware. While neither investigation has confirmed that hardware ultimately reached China, the enforcement actions illustrate the difficulties authorities face in enforcing export controls across international supply chains.