Technology & AI
Autonomous vehicle AI poisoning defence uses digital twins
New arXiv preprint proposes a twin-aware framework to protect federated reinforcement learning in self-driving cars from malicious parameter injection.
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Technology & AI
TokenWall cuts AI agent attack rate to 12.5%
A new preprint proposes a semantic firewall for persistent AI agents, blocking most attacks with under 0.7 seconds overhead — but it's not peer-reviewed yet.
Technology & AI
ProjAgent hits 41% on REPOCOD with procedural code retrieval
ProjAgent adds a new retrieval signal that finds code doing the same job under different names, hitting 41.14% Pass@1 on the REPOCOD benchmark for repository-le
Technology & AI
Quantized LLMs behave differently despite matching accuracy
A July 2026 preprint finds models compressed to lower precision diverge in which questions they get right, even when overall accuracy holds steady — exposing a
Technology & AI
SLORR cuts LLM training overhead below 1%
A new arXiv preprint called SLORR adds under 1% training overhead in LLM pretraining while making models more compressible, without SVDs or architecture changes
Technology & AI
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work agent runs across your apps for hours
OpenAI's new ChatGPT Work agent promises to turn goals into finished work by acting across your apps and files for hours — but key details remain undisclosed.
Technology & AI
GPT-5.6 becomes preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model powering Microsoft 365 Copilot across Word, Excel and PowerPoint, affecting millions of daily office users worldwide
Technology & AI
OpenAI GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty targets biological jailbreaks
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty invites researchers to test universal jailbreaks for biological risks in a model built for autonomous, multi-tool work.
Technology & AI
OpenAI GPT-5.6 arrives with Sol, Terra and Luna trio
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launches a three-model lineup — Sol, Terra and Luna — promising token efficiency and frontend gains, but with no independent benchmarks yet.
Property & Economy
ABS building approvals fall 1.1% as units dive 10.4%
ABS building approvals data for May 2026 shows total dwellings down 1.1% but private houses up 2.8% — a widening split between houses and units that reshapes wh
Property & Economy
Wages growth holds at 3.3% as new home loans fall 6.2%
Wages growth held at 3.3% through the year to March 2026, ABS data confirms, while new home loans fell 6.2% — what it means for borrowers, renters and the RBA.
Technology & AI
Strong privacy noise cuts AI generalisation error
Stronger privacy cuts AI generalisation error in high-noise regimes, yet the robustness-privacy tension returns when noise is low, according to new arXiv prepri