Property & Economy
Productivity grows, wages lag: Australia's housing squeeze
The Australia Institute asks why wages lag productivity. The answer reaches every mortgage application and rent payment in the country.
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Technology & AI
LatentFlow conditions stochastic processes in seconds, no training
A new arXiv preprint claims to solve a hard problem in probability, running on a desktop CPU without neural networks. Scientists and engineers take note.
Technology & AI
New framework tests if frontier AI helps plan CBRN attacks
A new arXiv preprint introduces a method to measure whether frontier AI helps non-experts plan CBRN attacks, with uplift limited to radiological threats.
Technology & AI
Qubes OS: 80% of security advisories trace to upstream code
An arXiv preprint analysing 14 years of Qubes Security Bulletins finds most flaws originate in Xen and CPU components, not Qubes itself.
Technology & AI
Mycelium AI routes science context across human-agent teams
A new arXiv preprint introduces Mycelium, a shared workspace connecting researchers and AI agents, routing hypotheses to whoever can act on them.
Technology & AI
Knowledgeless AI models cut hallucination, boost evidence use 25%
A new arXiv preprint strips named entities from training data, and the resulting models recall fewer facts but answer questions from context up to 25%
Technology & AI
OpenAI makes case for safe teen ChatGPT access
OpenAI's July 2026 article outlines age-appropriate protections, learning tools and parental controls for teen ChatGPT users, but key questions remain.
Technology & AI
Autoformalization paper calls for theory-level AI math
A new arXiv position paper argues AI must formalize entire mathematical theories, not isolated statements, to build verifiable knowledge bases.
Technology & AI
Traffic forecasting: simple mixing matches attention at 0.14% gap
Uniform mixing matches Transformer spatial attention across six traffic benchmarks at 0.14% MAE gap, while cutting complexity from O(N²) to O(N).
Technology & AI
MusicMark watermarks AI-generated music during creation, not after
MusicMark, posted to arXiv July 14, embeds watermarks during AI music generation rather than after, surviving attacks that defeat older methods rights
Technology & AI
Smart greenhouse RL audit splits reward into climate signals
New preprint proposes breaking RL reward signals into named climate-control components that greenhouse growers can audit across simulators and logged data.
Technology & AI
GNSS spoofing detection framework hits 95% accuracy in 3GPP networks
New arXiv research proposes a 3GPP-aligned framework detecting GNSS spoofing in mobile networks with over 95% accuracy, filling a gap operators now face.