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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.
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Quantum ML preprint targets post-quantum cryptography resilience
Quantum ML preprint loads hash-based signatures into quantum memory via generative networks, a first step toward testing post-quantum crypto.
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Harness Handbook maps AI agent behaviour to source code
Harness Handbook from Tencent and four universities builds a behaviour-to-code map for agent harnesses that cuts planner tokens and improves edit
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Google Search now connects your apps inside AI Mode
Google is letting U.S. users link services like Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music directly in Search's AI Mode, turning answers into actions. Here's what
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GPT-4o audit finds 66% of solved problems have flawed reasoning
A black-box audit swaps predicates in chain-of-thought to expose when GPT-4o reaches correct answers through reasoning that ignores its stated premises.
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AI agent harness evolution may not beat simple search
New arXiv paper finds automatically evolving agent scaffolding doesn't consistently outperform test-time scaling, with limited generalization to new tasks.
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Item response theory for AI benchmarks gives unreliable rankings
IRT rankings of AI models are unreliable when few systems are tested, 18,000 simulations show, threatening how the industry compares models.
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AI agent skills carry security risks beyond prompt injection
A new preprint tested 327 real-world agent skills and found vulnerabilities across the entire skill lifecycle, from admission to evolution.