FUURAA™ · 2026 AI Frontier Technology Radar

Safety, Evaluation, Policy & Society

Connect technical evaluation, operational controls, standards, public policy and social consequences.

Published7 August 2026Evidence statusFUURAA method synthesis; named primary-source recordsSource verificationVerified through 26 July 2026

Watch thesis

Responsible AI is not a statement of intent; it is a chain of scoped evidence, enforceable controls, accountable decisions and usable recourse.

Applicability boundaryThis page is research synthesis, not legal advice, certification, audit opinion or a determination of compliance.

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What this lens tracks

Declare the observation boundary before admitting a new development into the evidence chain.

  • 01safety research, evaluations and incident evidence
  • 02standards, regulation and institutional governance
  • 03labour, information integrity and public impact

Three evidence questions

Ask not only what happened, but how far the evidence travels.

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Which system, use, population and consequence does the evidence cover?

Evidence rule
Separate law, standards, guidance, voluntary commitments and research.
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Are controls technically enforced and tested under failure?

Evidence rule
Date every source and state jurisdiction and applicability.
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Can affected people understand, challenge and obtain remedy?

Evidence rule
Do not infer compliance or safety from citation alone.

Verified primary sources

10 directly relevant 2026 source records for this lens.

Each record states its publication date, source organisation, evidence type, FUURAA original summary and known boundary.

16 July 2026 · U.S. Department of Energy / Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryCESER Releases New Testbed to Advance LLM and Agentic AI Evaluation for Critical Infrastructure

Evidence statusPrimary source · Product release

Stormbreaker is a dynamic testbed for evaluating language models and agents in power-system and operational-technology environments before operational deployment.

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2 July 2026 · UK AI Security InstituteMore compute, more capability: Why AI agent evaluations need to account for test-time compute

Evidence statusPrimary source · Research

The findings indicate that fixed compute budgets can understate agent capability and argue for reporting capability as a curve over test-time compute rather than a single score.

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10 June 2026 · European Commission AI OfficeCommission publishes Code of Practice on marking and labelling AI-generated content

Evidence statusPrimary source · Standard

The voluntary code sets practical marking and disclosure measures ahead of EU AI Act transparency obligations applying from 2 August 2026.

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8 June 2026 · UK AI Security InstituteRealityTest: Do AI systems disclose their identity when asked?

Evidence statusPrimary source · Research

RealityTest uses multilingual, human-authored identity probes to assess whether text and speech systems disclose that they are AI, finding strong sensitivity to phrasing, context and system instructions.

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20 May 2026 · Singapore IMDAUpdated Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI

Evidence statusPrimary source · Policy

Singapore's updated framework adds deployment cases and practices for multi-agent systems, third-party agents, automation bias, bounded autonomy and meaningful human accountability.

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15 May 2026 · Council of EuropeEuropean Union ratifies the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence

Evidence statusPrimary source · Policy

EU ratification advances the first legally binding international AI treaty centred on human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

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20 April 2026 · Singapore IMDA / Enterprise SingaporeSingapore Champions New Global AI Testing Standardisation Efforts

Evidence statusPrimary source · Standard

Singapore proposed ISO/IEC 42119-8 to standardise testing methodology for generative-AI systems.

Evidence boundaryProposed international standard; not a final published ISO standard.

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15 April 2026 · NatureLanguage models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data

Evidence statusPrimary source · Research

The paper finds that model-generated training data can transmit behavioural tendencies through signals not obvious in surface content, raising new questions for synthetic-data governance.

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3 February 2026 · International AI Safety ReportInternational AI Safety Report 2026

Evidence statusPrimary source · Research

More than 100 experts synthesise current evidence on general-purpose AI capabilities, risks and mitigations, supported by an advisory process spanning over 30 countries and international organisations.

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30 January 2026 · NIST / CAISITowards Best Practices for Automated Benchmark Evaluations

Evidence statusPrimary source · Standard

The initial NIST AI 800-2 draft proposes reproducibility, transparency and validity practices for automated evaluation of language models and agent systems.

Evidence boundaryInitial public draft; not a final standard.

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FUURAA analysis

Governance becomes credible when it can change system behaviour: restrict authority, preserve evidence, trigger review, support appeal and stop operation when boundaries fail.

How to use this lensUse these records as a starting point for continuing observation—not as a complete market map, investment advice, certification conclusion or certain forecast. Source updates, version changes and independent replication can change the assessment.