Technology & AI
AI image editing loses spatial accuracy — here's why
A July 2026 preprint shows VLMs lose localization accuracy in a single forward pass inside diffusion editing pipelines, affecting AI image tool builders and use
Marcello Babbili
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FootsiesGym: open-source fighting game AI benchmark
FootsiesGym, a July 8 arXiv preprint, turns a minimalist 2D fighting game into an open-source RL benchmark for imperfect-information games that runs on standard
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Sampling lets AI models generalise to unseen sizes
A new arXiv preprint proposes random sampling maps that let models trained on small inputs handle larger ones they never saw — with explicit generalisation rate
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AI world model's 90% accuracy was a cheat — fix recovers 88%
World model spatial reasoning scores collapse from 0.90 to 0.27 when the goal is hidden, exposing instruction leakage — a prompt-cheating flaw the authors diagn
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AI bionic limbs open new privacy attack surface
New arXiv preprint 'idiobionics' warns that sensors and AI controls in smart prosthetic limbs could create exploitable privacy threat vectors for users.
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XGBoost security classifiers' 0.98 robustness collapses to 0.36
XGBoost security classifiers appear near-invincible against gradient attacks but crumble under score-based methods, while SHAP explanations break even when pred
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Neurosymbolic AI paper fuses logic rules with energy models
A new arXiv preprint fuses Answer Set Programming with energy-based models for end-to-end AI reasoning, tested on visual QA and multi-object tracking benchmarks
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MPC custody paper makes post-quantum migration a key rotation
An arXiv preprint proposes dual-gate MPC custody where switching to post-quantum signatures becomes a key rotation, not a protocol rebuild — reshaping quantum-s
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GPT-5.5 leads EvoPolicyGym: top-two across all 16 environments
EvoPolicyGym, a new arXiv benchmark, tests whether AI agents can autonomously rewrite executable policies under a fixed budget — and GPT-5.5 leads the pack.
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DynaKRAG makes multi-hop RAG adaptive, hits 0.60 F1 on HotpotQA
DynaKRAG treats multi-hop evidence gathering as a learned control problem, outperforming fixed RAG pipelines on three benchmarks with Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct.
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PPGNN brings personalized privacy to decentralized graph learning
A new arXiv preprint proposes letting each user in a decentralized network set their own privacy budget for graph data, fixing a uniform-noise flaw that degrade
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Hugging Face Hub kernels add code signing and trusted publishers
Hugging Face's new kernel repository type brings native compute code to the Hub with trusted publishers and code signing — changing whose code your machine runs