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LLM confidence scores fail basic coherence test
New arXiv paper finds calibration, the standard test for AI confidence, misses deeper incoherence in how models estimate their own certainty.
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Small AI models outperform LLM prompt guardrails, Fence says
A new arXiv preprint claims small language models trained on synthetic data outperform prompt-based LLM safety checks for hallucination and topic drift.
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LLM steering vectors get probabilistic fix in new paper
New arXiv preprint proposes Probabilistic Concept-Aware Steering, fixing incoherent behaviour in LLM steering vectors for open-weight model teams.
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AI licence laundering: under 7% of restrictive terms survive
An arXiv preprint traced 232,270 AI supply chains, finding permissive licences survive 95% while obligation-bearing ones drop below 7%.
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NVIDIA GB300 chips built in Fort Worth, 500 jobs live
NVIDIA partner Wistron opened a 324,000-square-foot Texas plant making GB300 chips, with 500 jobs and a $700M commitment.
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PEARL 4B model beats DeepSeek 685B at optimization modeling
PEARL puts a math solver inside the LLM loop to test, debug and revise optimization models, beating models 170× larger on verified solve rates.
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DBMol designs drug molecules using AI structure prediction
DBMol pairs structure prediction models to design target-specific drug molecules, but every affinity result is a computational prediction, not a lab test
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AI safety paper: the quiet failures nobody measures
AI safety discourse focuses on dramatic harms, but a new preprint argues the real danger is in quiet failures normalised by everyday workflows.
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Text-prompted visual similarity metric exposes AI blind spot
A July 2026 arXiv preprint introduces TPIPS, a text-prompted image similarity metric showing frontier vision-language models lag human perception.
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MAR-12 AI detects harmful humor in memes at 80.3% accuracy
New arXiv framework uses twelve reasoning angles to separate jokes from hate in memes, hitting 80.3% humor and 75.9% hate detection on two benchmarks.
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LLMs hold stable risk attitudes across tasks, study finds
Six LLMs tested across navigation, triage and finance tasks showed stable risk preferences, a hidden trait anyone deploying AI agents needs to understand.
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Text-to-video jailbreak gains 18.6% over closest rival
BSB jailbreak tricks text-to-video models like Veo and Sora by hiding harmful intent between two safe frames, beating rivals by 18.6% in attack success.