This article demonstrates a serious security vulnerability in agentic coding tools like Claude Code, where indirect prompt injection via a seemingly benign repository can lead to a reverse shell to an attacker's server. The attack exploits trusted setup instructions and error handling, fetching the malicious payload from a DNS TXT record, making it invisible to code review and static analysis.

An industry proposal before the Australian cabinet would allow AI companies to mine creative content in exchange for $50bn in datacentre investment and a $350m annual fund for artists, sparking alarm among creatives.

Researchers propose SEMQ, an abstraction layer that separates semantics from embeddings, potentially reducing memory and storage requirements for AI models without sacrificing accuracy.

LandSpace's Zhuque-3 rocket completed a static fire on June 29 and is preparing for its second flight with a booster recovery attempt expected after mid-July. Meanwhile, the Long March 10B maiden flight preparations have resumed, potentially launching on July 10-13 with a sea-based booster recovery.

In this tutorial, we explore CUP, Baidu's Common Useful Python library, as a practical utility toolkit for building stronger Python workflows. We install it in a Colab-friendly environment and walk its subsystems step by step, covering logging, decorators, nested configuration, caching, ID generation, thread pools, scheduling, and Linux resource monitoring. We connect each module to real tasks like automation, concurrency, and reliability checks.

An open-source project aiming to build a security layer between AI and infrastructure, using identity, policy, and permissions to control AI access. Created by a developer concerned about AI uncertainty, Aegize seeks to empower the community and attract adoption from big tech.

Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, outlines five job archetypes that could define the future of work in AI. These archetypes blend engineering, product, and design roles, with team members often spanning multiple archetypes. Other tech leaders like Figma's CEO also foresee merging job titles, while some caution against rigid role definitions.

On Tuesday at the AI Engineer World's Fair, there was a lot of talk about loops, agent engineering, and the emergence of software factories. Also a hot topic: open models.

When Bob's mom leaves for a work trip, he thinks it's going to be a quiet day at home. However, Bob discovers something terrifying: Krad, the King of Crogzeins, is coming to conquer Earth. His soldiers are already here, hunting for the seven scattered pieces of the legendary Sword of Ghix, the only weapon that can kill Krad. If Bob assembles the sword first, he might save everything. This is an unfinished game with WASD/arrow keys and Z/X/C/Space controls.

Syncpen is a markdown writing workspace that lets AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, claude.ai, Cowork) read, draft, and suggest edits directly in your documents. Changes are signed and tracked; you approve before they take effect. Features real-time collaboration, native markdown, one-click CMS publishing, and built-in research tools.

After US lifted export controls, Anthropic will restore Fable 5 on July 1, but with usage limits and per-credit billing after July 7. The company details the jailbreak incident, improved safety classifiers, and continued government collaboration.

This paper presents a method for synthesizing control inputs for discrete-time linear systems subject to Time Window Temporal Logic (TWTL) specifications. By encoding robust satisfaction as mixed-integer linear constraints, the authors formulate synthesis as a Mixed-Integer Linear Program (MILP) that maximizes robustness. They propose both open-loop and closed-loop (MPC) formulations, with the MPC employing a task-adaptive horizon to reduce computational cost.

This paper presents TAPE, a tether-aware path planning method for autonomous exploration of unknown 3D cavities using a tethered aerial robot. It employs a two-level hierarchical architecture with global frontier-based planning solving a TSP for distance minimization and local planning minimizing path cost and tether length via an adjustable decision function. Simulations and field tests show the method ensures tether length stays within limits in 100% of cases with only a 4.1% increase in distance traveled.

Researchers introduce Derail, an adversarial framework that exploits the scoring head in generative end-to-end autonomous driving planners, causing trajectory selection to flip from safe to unsafe with collision rates up to 50% and score drops of 39-80%, outperforming generic attacks.

This study compares continuous and discrete quadrotor dynamics on SE(3) for wind velocity estimation using EKF and UKF. Results show that discrete SE(3) dynamics with UKF achieves higher accuracy with low-cost sensors, highlighting potential for high-accuracy tasks.

This research explores leveraging large-scale dexterous grasp datasets to support articulated tool use in robotics. The authors construct a 355k-trajectory pretraining dataset, adopt a hierarchical imitation learning framework, and achieve significant improvements in task success rates in both simulation and real-world experiments.

This paper proposes a Vision-Language Procedural Reasoning (VL-PR) framework for autonomous guidewire navigation in robotic-assisted endovascular interventions. It integrates a multimodal large language model to interpret real-time visual observations for high-level navigation context inference and dynamically adjusts reward component importance. Experiments on a physical robotic platform demonstrate enhanced task reliability and efficiency over static-reward methods.

ViTL framework uses LLMs to compile natural language commands into Linear Temporal Logic formulas, which are converted into Deterministic Finite Automata to coordinate multi-channel value maps. It introduces a directional score for navigation, enabling zero-shot completion of multi-target, temporally constrained navigation tasks. Experiments on HM3D demonstrate its effectiveness.

This paper argues that despite rapid performance gains of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on robot manipulation benchmarks, current evaluation metrics cannot distinguish semantic from physical generalization, thus failing to verify physical reasoning abilities. The authors propose evaluation designs with controlled variation to separately measure these two capabilities.

This paper introduces a locker-based truck-drone routing problem (LTDRP-PDNF) that integrates pickups, deliveries, battery constraints, and no-fly zones, aiming to minimize total operational cost. The authors propose a two-stage deep reinforcement learning heuristic that outperforms baselines with short computation times.

This paper presents a benchmark for Arabic--Russian scientific translation, including a hybrid parallel corpus of about 27,000 sentence pairs compiled from scientific abstracts and general-domain texts. Three multilingual language models were fine-tuned using LoRA with various ranks. The Qwen2.5-7B model with QLoRA (rank 8) achieved the best results: BLEU 23.15, chrF 43.89, BERTScore 0.906, COMET 0.758, outperforming zero-shot baseline by +4.36 BLEU and +0.051 COMET. Few-shot prompting did not improve performance, indicating the necessity of domain-specific fine-tuning. The models, corpus, and evaluation code are released publicly, aiming to lower language barriers for scientific knowledge exchange between Arabic and Russian speakers and contributing to UN SDGs 9 and 17.

This study evaluates the robustness of Bangla event detection systems in real-world noisy conditions by introducing a benchmark of 9,979 annotated sentences across 40 event subtypes, including clean text, ASR transcripts, and orthographically corrupted text. Results show a trade-off: encoder models excel on clean text but degrade under noise, while decoder-only LLMs are more robust. Instruction tuning with annotation guidelines improves baseline performance on noise but not consistently. Model scaling boosts decoder robustness, and mixed training narrows the robustness gap, especially benefiting encoders.

This paper proposes a framework for therapeutic response generation driven by multi-dimensional, human-aligned evaluation. Stage I introduces TheraJudge, an open-source therapeutic evaluator trained via preference-based optimization on human-annotated data, producing reliable judgments across 7 psychological dimensions. Stage II introduces TheraAgent, which operationalizes the evaluations through a coordinated refinement process with Critic, Coach, and Therapist roles. TheraJudge achieves strong agreement with clinician ratings (ICC=0.87-0.95), and TheraAgent yields a +0.43 improvement in therapeutic quality, with low-quality responses improving by +2.45 points and a 94% recovery rate.

This paper describes a submission to SemEval-2026 Task 9 on detecting multilingual, multicultural, and multievent online polarization. The approach uses transformer-based models (RoBERTa-base for English, AfroXLMR-base for Swahili) with class-weighted loss functions to handle severe label imbalance and per-label threshold tuning for multi-label classification. On the test set, F1 macro scores are 0.7901 (English) and 0.7910 (Swahili) for Subtask 1, 0.4615 and 0.4808 for Subtask 2, and 0.4791 and 0.5830 for Subtask 3, showing competitive performance. Error analysis reveals struggles with dehumanization detection and lack of empathy.

This work proposes Outcome Reward Models (ORMs) as learned semantic scoring functions for test-time verification in Text-to-SQL. The GradeSQL framework automates ORM training via candidate generation and execution labeling, eliminating manual annotation. ORMs outperform execution-based Best-of-N and Majority Voting by up to 4.33% on BIRD and 2.10% on Spider, demonstrating scalability and stronger improvements on complex queries.

This study evaluates transformer language models on 'impossible' languages, finding that while grammatical sensitivity degrades gradually, generative capacity suffers pronounced failures, suggesting generative deficiency as a key factor in non-attestation.

A new study introduces ACE, an evaluation framework that controls for accuracy differences when comparing LLM calibration, revealing that many previously observed calibration advantages vanish and rankings can reverse.

This paper proposes a framework using generative AI agents as behavioral engines for black-box auditing of personalization algorithms. In a case study on X after the 2024 U.S. election with 1,120 agents, they find that the algorithmic feed amplifies toxic, polarizing, political, and right-leaning content compared to the chronological feed, with amplification varying by user ideology. Counterfactual analysis shows demographic signals affect content delivery in persona-dependent ways.

The Indi-RomCoM benchmark covers seven instruction-following tasks, four Indic languages, and three code-mixing intensity levels to systematically evaluate LLMs on Romanized Code-Mixed instructions. Results show LLMs consistently underperform, with performance degrading as code-mixing density increases; reasoning tasks degrade less than detection tasks.

A single LLM rewrite using false-positive and false-negative cases can match manually tuned skill descriptions, reducing engineering effort by 32x while maintaining routing accuracy.