Technology & AI
Neural networks beat NTK by 100,000x on compositional tasks
A new arXiv preprint quantifies why trained networks outperform their kernel limit on compositional functions by up to six orders of magnitude in test error.
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Technology & AI
Cortex framework chains 32 robot skills for long-horizon tasks
Cortex bridges AI planning and robot execution with 32 skill primitives, enabling zero-shot multi-stage chemistry experiments without task-specific training.
Technology & AI
CompactionRL lifts AI coding agents 7 points on SWE-bench
Tsinghua's reinforcement learning method teaches long-horizon AI agents to compress their own context, lifting open models on coding benchmarks and entering GLM
Property & Economy
Sydney home prices drop $31,000 — low-deposit buyers at risk
The median Sydney dwelling has slipped to $1.222m as rate hikes and budget uncertainty accelerate falls. Here's who's most exposed.
Property & Economy
Sydney and Melbourne property prices falling — HSBC warns worse is coming
National home values slipped 0.4% in June as Sydney led a quarterly decline of 3.2%. HSBC says the correction is 'just the beginning'.
Technology & AI
Nvidia RTX Spark: 1-petaflop power for personal AI
A new superchip brings data centre power to laptops, challenging Apple and Intel.
Technology & AI
kNNGuard: 10x faster AI safety without retraining
A new method uses hidden activations to block bad prompts instantly, requiring no model retraining.
Technology & AI
XGBoost Scored 0.98 Against Hackers. Its Explanations Still Collapsed.
New arXiv research reveals a dangerous blind spot in cybersecurity AI: models can resist attacks on paper while their decision logic falls apart.
Technology & AI
Masked image modelling beats contrastive learning in messy distributed AI training, Sydney-led team shows
New ICLR 2026 research finds masked image modelling is inherently more robust than contrastive learning when decentralised unlabelled data differs across nodes.
Technology & AI
Training-free AI guardrail runs 10x faster using 50 prompts
An arXiv paper claims kNNGuard reads hidden LLM activations to block unsafe prompts without fine-tuning, cutting latency and setup time to seconds.
Technology & AI
Mobile coverage map standard 2026: ACCC warns on misleading claims
ACMA's new 4G and 5G rules require a standard method across Australia, giving the ACCC a benchmark to judge network claims it previously had to drop.
Property & Economy
Australian house prices cool as new home loans fall 6.2%
Auction clearance rates are softening and economists expect modest declines, but arrears remain low and the wealth effect may not bite yet.