Technology & AI
AI agent for chip verification hits 95% accuracy
An arXiv preprint turns chip simulation dumps into a searchable database for verification engineers, hitting 95.33% on 150 queries.
Marcello Babbili
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Analyst in New South Wales. I founded Not A Tech Guy in 2026 to track AI, technology and Australian property from the primary sources: the papers, the company disclosures, and the RBA and ABS releases.
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CourseChat AI tutor picks 8B model over bigger rivals
Lethbridge researchers built CourseChat, an on-premises RAG tutor for six business courses, where bigger AI models failed the classroom speed test.
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MCP Python SDK trends on GitHub with 24,000 stars
The official Python SDK for Model Context Protocol servers hit GitHub's daily trending list with 24,476 stars after v2.0 stable.
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Multimodal AI models merge vision and text via two distinct pathways
An arXiv preprint finds concatenation and native multimodal architectures fuse visual and textual data through different internal pathways.
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AI agent skill scanners evaded 97% by Huawei researchers
A preprint from Huawei Research Zurich shows that scanners for malicious AI agent skills fail against an attacker who knows the detector.
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Weight tying costs private LLM training 4.74 accuracy points
Untying input and output embeddings in decoder-only LLMs lifts accuracy up to 4.74 percentage points under differential privacy fine-tuning.
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OpenAI's 'eternal complement': AI's edge is execution
OpenAI's new essay argues advanced AI may matter most for routine execution behind breakthrough ideas, not idea generation itself.
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OpenAI partners with America's SBDC for small business AI training
OpenAI's September 30 partnership with America's SBDC expands hands-on AI training for U.S. small businesses, but key details remain undisclosed.
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CoreWeave ships NVIDIA Vera Rubin, Cognition reports 4.8x speedup
CoreWeave is among the first clouds to deliver NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72, with Cognition reporting 4.8x higher token throughput on real engineering
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OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol targets Astra quality at one-fifth price
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol targets coding and computer use at $2 input and $10 output per million tokens, a fifth of Astra's price.
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LLM pipelines lose 40 accuracy points at interfaces
Pipeline interfaces destroy reasoning accuracy across 21 open-weight models, with a re-grounding fix holding on all three newest models tested.
Technology & AI
Holo4 27B scores 61.7% on OSWorld 2.0, trails Opus 5.5
Hcompany's Holo4 agentic models click, type and code across desktops and phones, but benchmark comparisons mix harnesses and task sets.