Technology & AI
Smart meter cyberattack could cost $5,097 a day
A preprint simulates DoS and time-delay attacks on smart meter networks, linking communication delays to energy procurement losses up to $5,097 a day.
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Property & Economy
ABS building approvals rebound 7.2% but units still fall
ABS building approvals rose 7.2% to 18,328 in June 2026, with houses up 15.8% year-on-year while multi-unit dwellings fell 1.5%, the stock renters need
Technology & AI
Google puts AI agent Ask Advisor inside Ads and Analytics
Google's August update puts AI agent Ask Advisor inside Ads and Analytics, with text-prompt dashboards and competitor benchmarking.
Technology & AI
NVIDIA Magpie TTS expands to 12 languages with open weights
NVIDIA's Magpie TTS v2607 adds Arabic, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese to its 364M-parameter open-weights model, targeting low-latency voice agents.
Technology & AI
KnowPlan AI agents plan degrees with 99.5% certified accuracy
KnowPlan separates curriculum extraction from degree-pathway optimization with a hard boundary, cutting source access 47% while certifying 99.5% of plans.
Technology & AI
Self-evolving AI agents stumble under real task streams
New AgentStream benchmark from Microsoft and Chinese Academy of Sciences finds self-evolving AI agents behave unpredictably in task sequences
Technology & AI
Google Cloud scanner catches AI safety tampering in 10 of 14 models
AMS, a new Google Cloud tool, flags 71% of safety-training modifications across Llama, Gemma, Qwen and Mistral, but behavioural fine-tuning evades it.
Technology & AI
LLM agent: code-only verification flips goal abandonment 100% to 0%
New arXiv preprint: a deterministic executive owns all agent belief, the LLM only files proposals, and zero ARC-AGI-3 completions are honestly disclosed.
Technology & AI
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 open model combines three physical AI skills
NVIDIA's open-weights Cosmos 3 model combines vision reasoning, world generation and action prediction for robotics and autonomous vehicles.
Technology & AI
Voice input degrades LLM agents more than typing, study finds
Voice transcription errors cut accuracy across every instruction-tuned model tested, while typing errors are absorbed. The gap traces to one mechanism.
Technology & AI
LLM interpreter explains outputs with no extra API calls
A new arXiv preprint from Sharif University trains an energy-based surrogate to identify which prompt sentences matter most, with no extra API calls.
Technology & AI
Agentic AI bottleneck is the CPU, not GPU, study finds
An arXiv paper drawing on Microsoft Azure production data finds agentic AI workflows bottleneck on CPU orchestration, not GPU inference, reshaping