mandatory
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On Tuesday, he released the 18 recommendations made after a "rapid review" into the breaches including new safety and security standards for AI companies such as mandatory reporting of hacks.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Artificial intelligence companies will have to abide by new "mandatory" safeguards when operating in Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
The review also recommended "mandatory, time-bound AI safety reporting" of hacks.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Among the author’s valuable if broad recommendations, he urges legislation that would establish mandatory follow-up care after the treatment of serious mental illness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Although many women in Afghanistan traditionally chose to wear the burka, a head-to-toe covering—including his grandmother and his aunts—the Taliban now made it mandatory.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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By giving up the belts, he is stepping away from mandatories, the politics and the pressure to keep defending against whoever is next in line.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
There is also the issue of Usyk's mandatories, which could throw up one particularly eye-catching encounter.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2022
Instead he has dealt with a string of decent but unspectacular mandatories in Hagler-esque fashion as they have shuffled tentatively into his range.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2016
Also, the federal decision recognized an exception for mandatories that involve a defendant’s criminal history.
From Washington Times ● May 30, 2015
For if they are mandatories, we cannot deny that they may kill with their own hands; and nevertheless, not to speak of the other decisions cited above, Clar.
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
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