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Research

August researches test whether agentic systems flatten transatlantic difference

The London strand closes the summer with a compliance-audit benchmark for autonomous systems under European AI obligations, and a paired study asking whether machine-mediated analysis manufactures convergence between Washington, Brussels and London where none exists.

August 2026

Method

Policy agents given institutional identity — and separate evidence stores

A July entry holds UK, EU and US retrieval indexes strictly apart inside a single collaborative workflow, and scores whether institution-specific assumptions survive the exchange. A second entry runs bounded infrastructure counterfactuals with conformal uncertainty.

July 2026

Both field strands stop at their June researches

Following the enactment of the Chinese ethnic unity law, the Eurasian interior and Tibetan plateau strands ceased publication. xjass.org and tbass.org are frozen and held as read-only archives; the research ends at June 2026 for both.

July 2026

Research

The interior strand closes with a longitudinal observatory

The final interior entry reads ten years of evidence streams, model-era metadata and institution-separated framing against one another, and treats no single generative summary as ground truth.

June 2026

Method

Evidence-graph compilers turn agent traces into auditable claims

The year opens with provenance compilers: every tool call, calculation and citation is compiled into a claim graph, with injected failures used to test whether auditors can still find the break.

January 2026

Governance

Research access moves to a single subscription

Researches are published with an abstract preview. Subscribers receive research updates as new researches appear, together with the method and dataset note recorded against each research.

January 2026