• How to Build Memory-Driven AI Agents with Short-Term, Long-Term, and Episodic Memory

    def openai_chat(system: str, user: str) -> str: resp = client.chat.completions.create( model=OPENAI_MODEL, messages=[ {"role": "system", "content": system}, {"role": "user", "content": user}, ], temperature=0.3 ) return resp.choices[0].message.content def heuristic_responder(context: str, question: str) -> str: lessons = re.findall(r"Lessons=(.*)", context) avoid = re.findall(r"Avoid=(.*)", context) ltm_lines = [ln for ln in context.splitlines() if ln.startswith("[LTM:")] steps = [] if lessons: for chunk in lessons[:2]: for s in [x.strip() for x in chunk.split(";") if x.strip()]: steps.append(s) for ln in ltm_lines: if "[LTM:procedure]" in ln.lower(): proc = re.sub(r"^\[LTM:procedure\]\s*", "", ln, flags=re.I) proc = proc.split("(salience=")[0].strip() for part in [p.strip() for p in proc.split("|") if p.strip()]: steps.append(part) steps = steps[:8]…

  • 2026 KGM Actyon Hybrid price and specs: Ex-SsangYong coupe SUV gets hybrid option

    KGM Australia is continuing to expand its electrified model lineup, with the 2027 KGM Actyon Hybrid now reaching local dealerships. It joins the regular petrol-powered Actyon crossover SUV, launched here last year, which is a sleeker, more coupe-like sibling to the Torres mid-size SUV. KGM is offering special launch pricing for a “limited” (though unspecified) time, with $2000 slashed off the regular drive-away price. CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. That sees the Actyon Hybrid range open at $48,000 drive-away for the K50, rising to $51,000 drive-away for the K60.…

  • Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series, Prado prices increased

    Toyota Australia has increased prices across the Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series and Toyota LandCruiser Prado ranges by up to $1000. The increase means the Prado GX is now priced from $73,200 before on-road costs, while the LandCruiser 300 Series now starts from $99,340 before on-roads. No specification changes have been made to the two SUV lineups. The price rise doesn’t impact the LandCruiser 70 Series, which is currently under a stop-sale in GXL wagon guise following an eight-month production pause from September 2025 as Toyota updates the vehicle to meet stricter Euro 6 emissions standards. While Ford Australia pointed to…

  • Tesla superfan launches GoFundMe to fix Model 3 battery after failure at 417,000km

    One of the administrators of Australia’s largest Tesla owners group on Facebook has launched a GoFundMe after his Model 3 broke down with over 417,000km on the odometer. On Friday, January 30, Nathan Merritt’s high-mileage 2021 Tesla Model 3 Standard Range+ shut down completely while charging in Brisbane. Not able to get access to his vehicle, he called Tesla Roadside which was on the scene within around 45 minutes and replaced the low-voltage battery, only to discover issues with the high-voltage pack. The vehicle consequently had to be towed away for repairs. “During all my posts several community members suggested…

  • A Coding and Experimental Analysis of Decentralized Federated Learning with Gossip Protocols and Differential Privacy

    In this tutorial, we explore how federated learning behaves when the traditional centralized aggregation server is removed and replaced with a fully decentralized, peer-to-peer gossip mechanism. We implement both centralized FedAvg and decentralized Gossip Federated Learning from scratch and introduce client-side differential privacy by injecting calibrated noise into local model updates. By running controlled experiments on non-IID MNIST data, we examine how privacy strength, as measured by different epsilon values, directly affects convergence speed, stability, and final model accuracy. Also, we study the practical trade-offs between privacy guarantees and learning efficiency in real-world decentralized learning systems. Check out the Full Codes…

  • BYD sales fall for fifth consecutive month as global volumes slide

    Sales for China’s biggest automaker, BYD, have fallen for the fifth month in a row, and the company has also lowered its previously stated export target for the year after missing its 2025 goal by around one million cars. According to Reuters, a stock exchange filing from BYD – a top-10 best-selling brand in Australia last year – showed it sold 210,051 cars worldwide in January 2026, a decline of 30.1 per cent compared with January 2025. Exports accounted for just under half of that total, at 100,482 vehicles, while BYD produced 29.1 per cent fewer cars year-on-year, extending a…

  • IM LS9 Hyper: High-tech Chinese luxury SUV on the cards for Australia

    The 2026 IM LS9 Hyper extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) has been unveiled in China as a technological leader for the IM Motors premium brand – and it could arrive in Australia in the near future. Packing a tri-motor EREV powertrain, the Hyper is the most powerful and high-tech version yet of the LS9, the flagship of the IM Motors brand backed by SAIC Motor which also owns MG and LDV. The LS9 Hyper debuts a fully electronically controlled four-wheel steering system, which uses electronic actuators rather than mechanical components to steer all four wheels. Per Chinese media, IM Motors is…

  • AI layoffs or ‘AI-washing’? | TechCrunch

    How many of the companies with recent layoffs are truly adapting their workforces to the efficiencies and challenges of artificial intelligence? And how many of them were just using AI as an excuse to cover other problems? That’s the question posed by a New York Times article on the trend of “AI-washing,” where companies will cite AI as the reason for layoffs that might actually be caused by other factors, like over-hiring during the pandemic. AI was the stated reason for more than 50,000 layoffs in 2025, with Amazon and Pinterest among the tech companies who blamed the technology for…

  • Apex Legends won’t be playable on Nintendo Switch after its next season

    Apex Legends developer Respawn said it’s ending Nintendo Switch support for the game this summer, with the release of Season 30. After that point, it’ll work with the Switch 2 and all other currently supported platforms, but not the original Switch. “Season 29 will be the final update for Apex Legends on Nintendo Switch,” the team wrote in a post on X. The change will take place on August 4, 2026, so Switch players still have several months left to enjoy Apex Legends on the console and make preparations for their shift to a different platform, if they plan to…