Technology & AI
AI agent benchmark tests tool-switching when reliability shifts
A new arXiv paper uses cognitive psychology's set-shifting concept to test whether LLM agents adapt when reliable tools silently change mid-session.
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Wind and solar prediction method cuts compute cost 21%
A new clustering-based feature selection method matches standard accuracy for wind and solar forecasting while cutting compute cost 21%, with open-source
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AI agent safety monitor cuts covert sabotage to zero
A new arXiv preprint introduces an Information Flow Graph monitor that stops AI coding agents secretly weakening security before deployment.
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Traffic center AI costs $34/month with mixed model portfolio
A new arXiv framework cuts transportation management AI costs 97% by mixing open-source and closed APIs, with a greedy heuristic that picks the cheapest
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Evo 2 probes detect AMR genes with 0.977 ROC-AUC
A lightweight probe on the Evo 2 DNA foundation model flags antimicrobial resistance in raw metagenomic data, skipping costly genome assembly steps.
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DREA AI vulnerability detector cuts API cost 48x
A new two-agent framework finds code bugs across whole repositories at 16-48x lower cost, but over half its correct answers rely on flawed reasoning.
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Medical AI scores hide flawed reasoning, preprint finds
A July 2026 study of nine endoscopy AI systems finds high answer accuracy doesn't guarantee faithful clinical reasoning, affecting hospital AI buyers.
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Safety Sentry gives AI agents a third option: ask first
A new arXiv paper from ShanghaiTech replaces binary safe/unsafe guards with a three-way EXECUTE-ASK-REFUSE routing that cuts alert fatigue for anyone
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New PUF design cuts wearable crypto power 89% to 2.7 μW
A Hybrid Oscillator Arbiter PUF generates crypto keys at 2.7 microwatts, pointing to hardware security for battery-constrained wearables and IoT devices.
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Graph tools lift small language model molecular prediction 74%
Graph neural network hints lift small language model molecular property prediction by up to 74% on Tox21, according to a new arXiv preprint.
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AI uncertainty measures unified in new risk decomposition paper
A July 2026 arXiv preprint reframes how AI systems measure their own uncertainty, deriving competing measures from one mathematical framework. Here is what
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MOJO framework decodes brain signals with little labelled data
New Mila preprint combines self-supervised and supervised learning to improve neural decoding across species when labelled data is scarce.