RAND Corporation

💻 Technology

Aug 12, 2026

Testing Large Language Model Agents on the Use of Biological Tools for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening Evasion

Large language model agents demonstrate an emerging ability to use biological tools to redesign peptides and proteins for nucleic acid synthesis screening evasion, indicating that agents could lower expertise barriers for hazardous capabilities

United States

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🏛️ Politics

Aug 11, 2026

Clarifying Debates About Drug Decriminalization

This essay aims to reduce confusion about what decriminalization means and offer insights that will hopefully improve future policy debates

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Aug 11, 2026

Clients’ Views and Experiences of Individual Placement and Support

This paper explores clients’ views and experiences of Individual Placement and Support for substance use to understand how the program is working across England, and whether any improvements can be made

England

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🏥 Healthcare

Aug 11, 2026

Effective Adaptations in Individual Placement and Support Delivery

This paper explores how the Individual Placement and Support model has been adapted for delivery in drug and alcohol treatment services in England

England

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💻 Technology

Aug 07, 2026

Interpreting Dual-Use Biology Benchmarks for Frontier AI

The authors find that many artificial intelligence (AI) benchmark tasks are no longer informative, but a frontier of difficult tasks remains so, with recent gains concentrated on difficult tasks theorized to be relevant to real-world risk

Global

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📈 Economy

Aug 07, 2026

China's Retirement Reform and the 2035 Statutory Working-Age Window

Using a monthly birth-cohort simulation, the author estimates that China’s 2025 retirement reform keeps about 48 million additional people below statutory retirement ages in 2035, delaying the working-age decline without reversing population aging

China

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🏥 Healthcare

Aug 06, 2026

Private Equity Ownership in Hospice Care

A systematic review of 2012 to 2026 evidence on private equity ownership in US hospice care, synthesizing six studies on market trends, patient and family care experiences, and financial performance across ownership models

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Aug 06, 2026

Veterans and Psychedelics

RAND researchers and expert panelists discuss new findings on U.S. veterans’ use and views of specific psychedelics, related clinical research, and the future of U.S. psychedelics policies affecting veterans

United States

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📈 Economy

Aug 06, 2026

A Portfolio Assessment Approach to Inform Resource Allocation Decisions

The authors describe a structured process for evaluating portfolios within the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process, which can help support resource allocation in cross-cutting portfolios

United States

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👥 Society

Aug 05, 2026

Having Trouble Finding Good Workers?

Myths about people who have criminal convictions can prevent hiring managers from considering this pool of productive, trustworthy workers. RAND research is clear: The vast majority of people who have a criminal conviction do not reoffend

United States

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💻 Technology

Aug 05, 2026

Secure Inference Data Centers

This report describes the deployment of secure inference data centers (SIDCs)—purpose-built facilities designed to protect artificial intelligence models from advanced nation-state adversaries. SIDCs can be built today with proven technologies

United States

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💻 Technology

Aug 05, 2026

AI and the Future of Emergency Management

In this report, the authors present the results of a landscape assessment of artificial intelligence–enabled products that are available to support the work of emergency management across the United States

United States

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