Technology & AI
AI safety paper: the quiet failures nobody measures
AI safety discourse focuses on dramatic harms, but a new preprint argues the real danger is in quiet failures normalised by everyday workflows.
Marcello Babbili
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Property & Economy
Australian wages growth steady at 3.3%, private sector cools
Australia's Wage Price Index rose 3.3% in the year to March 2026, but private sector pay slowed to 3.2% as new home loans fell 6.2%.
Technology & AI
Text-prompted visual similarity metric exposes AI blind spot
A July 2026 arXiv preprint introduces TPIPS, a text-prompted image similarity metric showing frontier vision-language models lag human perception.
Technology & AI
MAR-12 AI detects harmful humor in memes at 80.3% accuracy
New arXiv framework uses twelve reasoning angles to separate jokes from hate in memes, hitting 80.3% humor and 75.9% hate detection on two benchmarks.
Technology & AI
LLMs hold stable risk attitudes across tasks, study finds
Six LLMs tested across navigation, triage and finance tasks showed stable risk preferences, a hidden trait anyone deploying AI agents needs to understand.
Technology & AI
Text-to-video jailbreak gains 18.6% over closest rival
BSB jailbreak tricks text-to-video models like Veo and Sora by hiding harmful intent between two safe frames, beating rivals by 18.6% in attack success.
Technology & AI
OpenAI launches ChatGPT small business program
OpenAI's new ChatGPT for Small Businesses program aims to help entrepreneurs build AI skills and automate daily work, but key details are missing.
Technology & AI
GigaPath-Flash cuts pathology AI compute 50x, keeps 97% accuracy
GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash shrink billion-parameter pathology models to run on 50x less compute while predicting tumor profiles from routine slides.
Technology & AI
New LLM agent memory system MOSAIC hits 89% accuracy
MOSAIC, posted on arXiv on July 21, lifts long-conversation accuracy 27 points and catches 66% of factual conflicts before they corrupt an agent's memory.
Technology & AI
One AI controller runs 25 different systems without retraining
A neural network trained on 314,630 demonstrations controls 25 systems from underwater vehicles to chemical reactors, matching hand-tuned controllers in
Technology & AI
NVIDIA Spectrum-6 doubles AI factory network to 102.4 Tbps
NVIDIA's 102.4-terabit Spectrum-6 Ethernet switch is reaching gigascale AI factories first at CoreWeave, Microsoft and Nebius, doubling network capacity.
Technology & AI
True-fact attack hijacks RAG agents 83% of the time
New arXiv preprint shows AI agents can be redirected by reordering true facts, with 83.3% success across GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Qwen.