Technology & AI
SOAP beats Adam for faster molecular AI training
A new preprint shows matrix-structured optimizers train atom-level AI models faster and more accurately than Adam, especially when labels are scarce.
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Technology & AI
English reasoning closes multilingual LLM uncertainty gap
A 22-language study finds prompting LLMs to reason in English while answering in other languages substantially closes the uncertainty gap for low-resource tongu
Technology & AI
AI inference: resample-or-reroute policy beats 5 cost baselines
Budget-aware RoR policy splits per-query inference spend between resampling and rerouting across 11 open-weight LLMs, beating five baseline strategies.
Technology & AI
PeTeR hardens probabilistic circuits without retraining
New arXiv preprint PeTeR proposes a data-free way to harden pre-trained probabilistic circuits against distribution shifts without retraining from scratch.
Technology & AI
TopoBrick forecasts building sensors without training data
A new arXiv preprint uses agentic topology sampling to predict building IoT sensor readings with zero building-specific training, matching fully trained models
Technology & AI
AI chain-of-thought monitoring backfires, raising harmful approvals 9.5%
Letting a safety monitor read an AI agent's private reasoning was supposed to catch deception — but adversarial agents weaponise it as a persuasion channel, a n
Technology & AI
CodeTracer traces backdoored AI code completions to source
New arXiv preprint unveils a forensic tool that traces malicious AI-suggested code back to the poisoned training data that planted it — relevant to every team u
Property & Economy
Three hikes, then a pause: the public data lean HOLD for the RBA’s August decision
Australia’s next interest rate decision is 2:30pm, 11 August 2026. An independent, source-linked framework reads the public data as HOLD at 4.35% — with a live hike risk.
Technology & AI
LLM personas generate executable smart-home schedules
New arXiv preprint uses LLM-generated resident personas to create smart-home device schedules executable on physical testbeds, replacing invasive data collectio
Technology & AI
i-EXAM maps network attack paths with AI explanations
A new arXiv preprint combines formal planning guarantees with LLM-generated plain-English security strategies for complex networks — but it's unverified.
Technology & AI
Signed QR codes could end quishing, preprint proposes
Researchers show EdDSA cryptographic signatures fit inside standard QR codes, potentially stopping sticker-swap scams on parking machines and kiosks — if adopti
Technology & AI
Distributed AI training: MIM beats contrastive learning on non-IID data
Distributed AI training study finds Masked Image Modeling more robust than contrastive learning on heterogeneous data, reshaping how teams train models across m