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  1. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Conflicting Supervision Moves Commitment, Not Capability: A 12.29{\sigma} arrangement effect that is exactly zero under a convention-agnostic score

    arXiv:2610.00234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: "Train a model on the same problems written under two incompatible conventions, both correct, and ask what the ordering of that data writes into the parameters. The learning-rate schedule is not a background condition for that question. It is the averaging operator, and it decides the answer. We prove a bound in which the arrangement and the schedule enter the ordering effect as separate multiplied factors: the arrangement only as a block period, the schedule only as how much weight the endpoint can place on any one moment of the run. A decaying

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  2. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Knowing When to Yield: Grounded Arbitration of User Corrections in Text-Based Embodied Agents

    arXiv:2610.00282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How should an embodied agent respond when a person's correction may be wrong? We formulate grounded correction arbitration as a choice among accepting, rejecting, inspecting the world, and asking the speaker. GAVA implements this interface with observation-bounded evidence, legal probes, and a one-step expected-loss rule. In text-only ALFWorld, 162 checkpoints produce 972 paired true and false interventions. Complete local inspections give GAVA and always verify 100 percent correction accuracy, establishing the evidence contract rather than a com

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  3. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Rules to Tools: Executable Checks for LLM Agents in Scientific Computing

    arXiv:2610.00313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific coding agents receive equations, boundary conditions, and output requirements in writing, then must assess the programs they revise. Rules to Tools (R2T) supplies prepared executable checks of public scientific requirements. Matched SciCode repair groups share written checks, starting programs, model, and budgets; the tool group receives a callable implementation. Across two task-ID cohorts, complete repair is 26/30 with text and 29/30 with the prepared checks. Three task IDs favor tools, one favors text, and eleven tie. The eight-ID c

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  4. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Predictive Credit: Measuring What Scientific Explanations Add to Experimental Forecasts

    arXiv:2610.00314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Research agents explain planned experiments. We measure predictive credit with paired forecasts sharing an intervention, forecaster, and outcome while varying description, matched explanation, and donor context. Five checks track commitment, delivery, predictive gain, alignment, and known-signal uptake. Across 336 prospective states in controlled learning, 12 Tox21 endpoints, and 24 OpenML tasks, v5's frozen credit decision was inconclusive. Tox21's preregistered ROC AUC interval-score harm test was unmet ($D-M=-.0026$, 95 percent interval [$-.01

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  5. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    ContractRL: Shielded Group-Relative Policy Optimization for Auditable Tool-Call Repair

    arXiv:2610.00328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured tool calls often fail after only a small number of fields violate a schema or an execution contract. Regenerating the complete object enlarges the action surface and makes repeated repair difficult to audit. We introduce ContractRL, a contract-constrained sequential repair protocol that models verifier-guided JSON repair as a bounded decision process. At each step the policy observes the candidate, typed verifier feedback, JSON Pointer, immutable repair history, and remaining budget; a contract-derived action mask filters malformed or

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  6. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Heavy-Tailed Memory Traces in Long-Horizon Language Agents

    arXiv:2610.00010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon language agents increasingly rely on external memory as a frozen world model, yet current memory systems are usually judged only by task success or token cost. We argue that the missing object is the shape of memory use: under finite context and repeated retrieval, agent memory can concentrate on a small core while leaving rare states in a long tail where prediction errors accumulate. We study this effect through a conservative tail audit and find that concentration is reproducible but policy-dependent. Random-walk agents produce log

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  7. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]

    201 HN points. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929391

    Labor researchConfidence:68 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  8. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    Chatham scales its capital markets expertise with OpenAI

    Chatham Financial uses Codex and GPT-5.6 to build technology and redesign workflows, cutting trade validation from 30 minutes to under 4.

    Labor researchConfidence:50 · lowVerified by AIKillsWhat
  9. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy

    152 HN points. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926512

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  10. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    The eternal complement

    Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress.

    Labor researchConfidence:50 · lowVerified by AIKillsWhat
  11. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out

    Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.

    Labor researchConfidence:50 · lowVerified by AIKillsWhat
  12. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience

    Barclays, the British universal bank, is expanding its strategic collaboration with Anthropic to integrate secure, enterprise-grade AI systems across its global operations.

    Labor researchConfidence:50 · lowVerified by AIKillsWhat
  13. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)

    102 HN points. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922568

    Labor researchConfidence:68 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  14. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    Bill Burr argues for AI to replace CEOs instead of workers

    The comedian argued that swapping out one executive salary would save companies more than cutting workers.

    Labor researchConfidence:50 · lowVerified by AIKillsWhat
  15. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Google’s new frontier AI model Gemini 4 Argon goes to cybersecurity defenders first

    Google LLC today began rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier artificial intelligence model that beats rival models from Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC on most of Google's benchmarks, to vetted cybersecurity defenders.

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  16. New model
    IMPACT 45

    AI Model Launch Timeline: Every Major AI Model Announcement

    It is getting incredibly hard to track all the AI model announcements. Every week, some AI lab announces a new model that beats existing ones, and the cycle continues. Also, the g

    Frontier releaseConfidence:78 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  17. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom bans AI 'robo bosses' in landmark state law, reversing his earlier veto

    Governor Gavin Newsom speaks in ... tech companies to help better prepare California's students and workers for the next generation of technology, in San Francisco, California, United States on August 7, 2025. ... California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a landmark AI law banning Golden State employers from relying solely on artificial intelligence to fire or ...

    Labor researchConfidence:50 · lowVerified by AIKillsWhat
  18. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models - The New York Times

    Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.

    Labor researchConfidence:50 · lowVerified by AIKillsWhat
  19. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    Smart-Home Hub Details: Apple plans iMac G4-style home device; Oct 13 launch tipped

    Apple is reportedly set to introduce a new smart-home hub featuring a six-inch display and camera functions. This device aims to enhance control over smart-home products and facilitate FaceTime calls.

    Labor researchConfidence:50 · lowVerified by AIKillsWhat
  20. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Component-Aware Feedback for Self-Evolving Programs

    arXiv:2609.38639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-guided evolutionary search can discover complex programs, but existing methods mostly only save candidate programs and fitness scores while discarding which component edits produced which fitness metric changes. Existing methods force the mutator LLM to infer the effect of prior edits from cluttered histories, making program search slow and unstable. This is especially true for locally servable LLMs to evolve multi-component systems. We introduce component-aware feedback, which compares each evaluated program with its parent, identifies the c

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  21. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Improving OCR Faithfulness via Gated and Attenuated On-Policy Distillation

    arXiv:2609.38282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models may rewrite anomalous text in images into linguistically plausible expressions, compromising OCR transcription faithfulness. Sequence-level task rewards and local teacher guidance are complementary, but guidance from the same teacher may not remain equally effective as the student improves. Offline analysis shows that supervision from a fixed teacher becomes progressively less favorable as the student improves, both across training checkpoints and across response groups with different task rewards. Motivated by this observa

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  22. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    AREX-2: Advancing Self-Improving Agents through Long-Horizon Reflective Tasks

    arXiv:2609.38288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present AREX-2, an effort to advance the self-improving capability of LLM agents, which we define as the ability to iteratively refine a solution at test time. This ability rests on two complementary capabilities: reflection, which produces a solution better than the current one, and long-horizon execution, which keeps the iteration effective over many rounds. We hypothesize that both capabilities are domain-agnostic, and can therefore be learned in scenarios that are well suited for supervision. Accordingly, we synthesize long-horizon improve

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  23. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    MoFlow: Multi-Objective Agentic Workflow Generation

    arXiv:2609.38294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the generation of agentic workflows that jointly optimize multiple objectives, such as accuracy, cost, latency, robustness, and consistency. Existing methods for workflow generation typically optimize accuracy alone or a weighted sum of objectives, so each trained generator commits to one fixed trade-off and must be retrained from scratch when preferences change. To alleviate this, we propose MoFlow, which generates workflows optimized across varied preferences. Specifically, MoFlow formulates workflow generation as a multi-objective Mar

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  24. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    AI Agents are Vulnerable to Radicalization

    arXiv:2609.38296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can influence people's beliefs, yet little is known about whether and how they can manipulate each other. To investigate this, we simulate conversations between two agents: a target LLM that role-plays a human persona based on demographic and psychological attributes, and an influencer LLM that aims to make the target's beliefs more extreme. We examine radicalization along two pathways: resonance, where the influencer reinforces a target's pre-existing belief, and persuasion, where the influencer promotes a belief the

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  25. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    CARAT: Do Materials LLMs Reason or Recite?

    arXiv:2609.38340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a materials LLM answers a question about crystal structure, does it reason from the structure or copy an answer already printed in its input? Accuracy cannot tell: a structural description often prints the very field it is scored against. CARAT holds question and gold answer fixed across eight matched views, names each structural relation separately in GraphSpace, and adds matched fine-tuning, answer masking, evidence injection, paired inference, and a rule that can withhold claims. First, on the benchmark's hardest families the grounded vie

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  26. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Examining Variation in How Guided AI Tutors Resolve Student Impasses

    arXiv:2609.38346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a student is stuck, a tutor faces the assistance dilemma: help given too early can hinder productive struggle, while help withheld too long leaves the student in a frustrating, persistent impasse (i.e., wheel spinning). Generative AI tutors increasingly use guardrails restricting answer-giving, yet little is known about how such tutors behave once an impasse persists. We analyze 20,462 student turns from 1,260 authentic sessions with a guided LLM chemistry tutor, identifying 6,630 impasse turns of three major types: conceptual errors, expres

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  27. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Beyond Mode Collapse: Generating Diverse Synthetic Expert Conversations via Generative Flow Networks

    arXiv:2609.38359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High quality synthetic data is central to post training LLMs for adaptive AI applications that represent the diverse expert strategies and decisions in conversations. Prompting LLMs directly or conditioning them on end use scenarios yields low diversity data that collapses onto dominant modes. We propose a method to generate diverse high quality synthetic data using Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets). We show that training GFlowNets to generate latent conversation structure using a Gaussian mixture density over key interaction features (e.g., c

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  28. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Can an AI Agent Rediscover a Blaschke-Curve Invariant?

    arXiv:2609.38369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study generalized Blaschke curves as a controlled environment for AI-assisted mathematical rediscovery. For one fixed degree-four Blaschke product, an agent receives numerical coordinates of the six pair-lines determined by each of 80 boundary configurations. The target theorem is withheld from the task instructions. The saved research log reports rejected geometric hypotheses and a homogeneous cubic fitted to polygon sides. Its frozen coefficients predict 480 lines from 80 unseen parameter values, with a recorded RMS scale-free residual of $8

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  29. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Self-Evolving Harness on Multiple Tasks with the Agent as Its Own Optimizer

    arXiv:2609.38372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A harness is the code around a language-model agent that organizes prompts, calls tools, manages context, and controls execution. As models grow stronger, recent work has begun to let agents improve their own harnesses, a line of work known as self-evolving harnesses. In most existing methods, a separate proposer running on a human-designed harness modifies the solver's harness, and a separate harness is evolved for each benchmark. Real-world tasks come from many domains, so both the evolution and the evaluation of a harness should cover a divers

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  30. Research published
    IMPACT 40

    Aligned Data Can Induce Misalignment via Context Confusion

    arXiv:2609.38379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are frequently updated for various use cases, where filtering out misaligned training samples is a common practice for preventing post-update misalignment. However, alignment is inherently context-dependent: a recommendation that is aligned in one context may be inappropriate in another. For example, in response to the question "What should a researcher do with the research data?", recommending that the researcher preserve the data for reproducibility is aligned. In contrast, recommending data saving in response to "W

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
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