This paper presents the Stabilarity Research Platform — an open, API-accessible research infrastructure exposing validated machine learning models, geopolitical risk datasets, and decision optimization tools to the global research community at no cost. The platform implements FAIR data principles (Wilkinson et al., 2016), providing composable, versioned endpoints for: (1) medical imaging classi...
Fresh Repositories Watch: Cybersecurity — Threat Detection and Response Frameworks
This article investigates the landscape of AI-powered cybersecurity frameworks for open source threat detection and response. We examine three research questions: (1) how AI-driven threat detection compares to manual approaches in terms of accuracy and speed, (2) what vulnerability patterns dominate in open source projects in 2025-2026, and (3) how security tool adoption correlates with trust s...
Real-Time Shadow Economy Indicators — Building a Dashboard from Open Data
Monitoring shadow economy activity in near real-time remains a critical gap for policymakers, tax authorities, and international organizations. Traditional estimation methods—MIMIC models, household surveys, and currency demand approaches—produce estimates with lags of months to years, leaving decision-makers without timely signals. This article investigates whether open data sources can serve ...
The Second-Order Gap: When Adopted AI Creates New Capability Gaps
When organizations successfully adopt AI systems, they often discover that adoption creates as many problems as it solves. This phenomenon—the second-order gap—occurs when AI adoption reveals or generates new capability deficiencies that organizations had not anticipated. This article examines the mechanisms driving second-order gap formation, quantifies their prevalence across enterprise conte...
Neural Network Estimation of Shadow Economy Size — Improving on MIMIC Models
The MIMIC (Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause) model has been the dominant framework for shadow economy estimation since the 1970s. However, its linear, latent-variable architecture imposes constraints that modern machine learning methods can overcome. This article evaluates neural network approaches to shadow economy estimation, comparing their predictive accuracy, non-linear pattern recognitio...
Agent-Based Modeling of Tax Compliance — Simulating Government-Citizen Interactions
Tax compliance is a central determinant of shadow economy size, yet the behavioral mechanisms linking government enforcement to citizen reporting decisions remain poorly understood. Agent-based modeling (ABM) offers a bottom-up computational approach to simulating how individual taxpayers respond to audit probability, penalty severity, and peer behavior. This article applies ABM to tax complian...
Machine Learning for Shadow Economy Detection — Classification of Suspicious Transaction Patterns
Detecting shadow economy activities through financial transaction monitoring is a critical challenge for regulators and financial institutions. This article investigates the application of machine learning algorithms to classify suspicious transaction patterns, using synthetic transaction data that mimics real‑world features such as amount, frequency, and entropy. We pose three research questio...
The AI Mirror: What AI Reveals About Being Human
Every technology is a mirror. The telescope revealed our cosmic insignificance; the microscope revealed the teeming life we cannot see. Artificial intelligence, particularly large language models, is the latest mirror—and perhaps the strangest. It reflects not the physical cosmos but the cognitive one: language, thought, reasoning, and the architecture of mind itself.
AI Memory Architecture: From Fixed Windows to Persistent State
The dominant paradigm for AI memory—fixed-size context windows processed through self-attention—faces fundamental scalability barriers as large language models are deployed in long-horizon agentic tasks requiring hundreds of interaction sessions. This article investigates the transition from fixed context windows to persistent memory architectures through three research questions addressing sca...
Ubiquitous AI Integration: When Every Human Action Has an AI Partner
We stand at an inflection point where artificial intelligence is transitioning from a specialized tool invoked for discrete tasks to an ambient partner woven into the fabric of every human decision. This article examines the trajectory toward ubiquitous AI integration---a state in which AI participates in virtually every action a person takes, much as automatic balance calculations underpin eve...
Conscious Products: When AI Is the Product Personality Itself
Beyond the Tool Paradigm: How Artificial Intelligence is Becoming the Core Identity of the Products We Create