Today 63 of Australia’s best minds, including three Nobel prize winners, have written to the PM asking him to immediately boost medical research funding. The letter was led by Prof. John Fraser, who has pioneered world-leading bionic hearts and lungs technology - technology now being developed in the US. Professor Fraser is just one of the many talented researchers within our medical research community - scientists who could do more and develop more if we supported them better. Without investment from the federal government, Australia will continue to generate brilliant ideas for others to commercialise and benefit from. In the upcoming federal budget, the government must spend the money we’ve already put aside for medical research. It'll help our health and help our economy. Find the full story on page 10 of today's Australian newspaper.

Andrew Ng released an “Agentic Reviewer” for research papers. It just hit near human-level agreement after training on real ICLR 2025 reviews. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 Paper review is slow. Each cycle takes around six months. One student saw six rejections over three years. Iteration speed, not ideas, became the bottleneck. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 The system learns from real conference feedback. It reads your paper, then searches arXiv for related work. The flow is simple: Analyze claims and structure Ground comments in published research Produce structured reviewer-style feedback It works best in fields with open literature. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 Human-to-human review correlation sits at 0.41. AI-to-human correlation reaches 0.42. That is near reviewer agreement today.