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Regulator-supervised programmes where firms trial new products live, within limits on participants, scope and time, so regulators can observe the outcomes.
South Korea's trade ministry granted Robros a testing exemption to run 20 humanoid robots in the same spaces as workers at four industrial sites. The grant covers one project, and the rules for wider use are to be written from its data.
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HKT Payment is testing, in a Hong Kong regulator's sandbox, a blockchain 'agentic ID' that ties an AI agent's payments to a verified person or company. The pilot brings the question of whom an agent acts for under supervisory review, though the report describes a test and no rule.
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UK ministers accepted all 44 recommendations of the AI health commission, moving device oversight from a one-off pre-market check to lifetime monitoring. Firms get an earlier NHS testbed in exchange for lifetime evidence duties the regulator has yet to define.
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The co-leads of July's Geneva dialogue want models tested independently before release and incidents reported after it. Their list of things due by May is an evidence assessment, an agenda item and one cross-border sandbox pilot.
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Demat 2.0 settled REC, L&T and IIFL paper against the wholesale digital rupee on the day of bidding, with the same ISINs, coupons and ratings the bonds would have carried anyway.
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UBS, PostFinance, SIX and TWINT are now testing CHFD, but the technical backbone belongs to a subsidiary of Swiss Stablecoin AG, and the programme closes at the end of 2026 with no commitment to launch.
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