Sophos reports Aur0ra attackers used AI agents to gain network privileges
Aur0ra ransomware operators used AI agents to navigate victim networks, collect credentials and obtain domain administrator access, Sophos found, Help Net Security reported.
MOSAIC preprint reports better task performance with 72% fewer backbone parameters
Researchers report that MOSAIC, an architecture for learning from multiple types of input, improved average macro-F1, a classification performance measure, by 7.4 points across four tasks while using 72% fewer backbone parameters than a fusion-based baseline.
TSFLab preprint reports higher agent task completion with fewer tokens
Researchers report that TSFLab, a workbench for coding agents conducting time series forecasting research, improved task completion by 20-163% and reduced fresh tokens per completed task by 11-66% across baselines in reproduction and benchmarking experiments.
NablaMimic preprint reports faster humanoid motion training on one GPU
Researchers report that NablaMimic trains a humanoid motion-tracking policy to a score of 0.82 in 20 minutes, compared with 1.2 h for a leading world-model method.
AMMA preprint reports lower attention latency with memory-centric chip design
Researchers report that AMMA, a proposed chip architecture for serving long-context AI models, achieves 15.5X lower attention latency and 6.9X lower energy consumption than NVIDIA's H100 in their evaluations.
CoFiBreak preprint reports more diverse successful attacks on AI models
Researchers report in a preprint that CoFiBreak, a method for training AI models to test other models' safety defenses, discovered 1.6-2.0x as many distinct successful fine-grained attack strategies as the strongest baseline across frontier victims on HarmBench.