Tech that just got out.Explained so a 12-year-old gets it, checked against the original paper, then turned into business ideas you can test this week.
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One number, one chart, one lesson.
Data/AI agents & MCP/South Korea · USA
A new attack fooled an undefended AI agent 49.1 percent of the time on a public test bench. That figure is a per-try rate in a simulation, and it invites five misreadings.
Data/Cybersecurity/China
Eight MCP security scanners flagged 96.89 percent of running servers as risky, but only 45.53 percent of hand-checked alerts were real. The second number is the one that changes what you do.
An offline crop disease model scored 97.3 percent on cactus-fig photos taken at university test plots. No farmer has ever used it, and the paper describes that figure two different ways.
Data/Robotics/China · Singapore
One humanoid model finished 81.8 percent of runs across 11 household chores, roughly double the best rival. The average hides a chore that worked 4 times in 10.
Data/Quantum computing/China · Singapore
A review prices quantum error cleanup at 537 million times more runs for 1,000 noisy places in a circuit. No machine was run to get that figure, and it is not a count of qubits.