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AI is Not Just About Model Performance: The New Form of AI Competition Seen in Chinese AI x Chinese AI Chips
The overall picture of the competition to combine Chinese AI with Chinese AI chipsAs the competition for AI performance intensifies, benchmark results attract attention every time a new model is released.
Frontier release/Confidence:78 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s $6 million estate now listed for $29.5 million
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore bought a 25-acre Woodside estate for about $6 million in 1991. After more than three decades of ownership, the property was placed under a permanent conservation easement limiting development.
Labor research/Confidence:50 · low/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Artificial Intelligence: Which jobs are going to be replaced by AI? Which age group will be exposed the most? Here's what experts say
Which jobs are not safe from AI? Questions are being raised over the nature and magnitude of impact of Artificial Intelligence in coming times.
Labor research/Confidence:50 · low/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
Google parent company Alphabet has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model built to handle a variety of tasks such as coding, research, and writing. But it's cybersecurity that Gemini 4 Argon is supposed to have a particular knack for,
Frontier release/Confidence:78 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Language Model Activations Inhabit Privileged Error-Correcting Basins
arXiv:2610.04183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models exhibit remarkable robustness, continuing to produce coherent text even when their activations are perturbed by interventions like linear steering. We hypothesize that this robustness is a result of passive dynamics, i.e., constraining mechanisms in the forward pass that funnel activations toward "good" regions that produce coherent outputs. To investigate these hypothesized error-correcting mechanisms, we probe the geometry of language model activation space by observing the action of model layers on low-dimensional curves. In do
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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SHarP: Saliency-based Pruning of Agent Harnesses
arXiv:2610.04178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent harnesses are systems that coordinate model calls, tool use, and task execution to help large language models complete complex tasks. To meet task requirements and address failures, these systems are often iteratively refined by amending and patching their instructions, tools, and workflows, continuously increasing harness complexity. It is therefore unclear whether some resulting harness modules are redundant, introducing substantial token overhead with little, if any, performance gain. Inspired by neural network pruning, in this paper, we
Frontier release/Confidence:78 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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EvalResearchBench: Can AI Agents Design Their Own Evaluations?
arXiv:2610.04184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive self-improvement (RSI) relies on evaluation feedback to assess progress and guide further research, yet repeatedly running complex benchmarks is costly and slows iteration. Human experts reduce this cost by selecting benchmark subsets or designing compact suites. We ask whether AI agents can automate this design process and introduce EvalResearchBench (ERB), a benchmark for autonomous evaluation research. Given target materials, development references, candidate APIs, and fixed time and API budgets, an agent called the researcher select
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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InvestigationWorlds: An Agentic Environment for Legal Investigation
arXiv:2610.04129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce InvestigationWorlds, an agentic environment for legal investigation. We build on an underused artifact of U.S. civil litigation: the summary judgment motion. This motion relies upon a record composed of real evidence exhibits, and results in a court-adopted hypothesis that is treated as ground truth for the purposes of deciding the motion. Each environment is built from a real U.S. Federal Court case retrieved from Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) and augmented by an attorney-validated generation pipeline that synthe
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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The Independence Prior of SAEs Fragments Visual Concepts
arXiv:2610.04112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) decompose model activations into sparse combinations of interpretable dictionary atoms. Although SAEs are grounded in the Linear Representation Hypothesis (LRH), their objective smuggles in an additional prior: concepts across patches are treated as independent, an assumption clearly violated by natural images and by the activations they induce. We therefore specialize LRH to vision through the Markov-Field Linear Representation Hypothesis (MFLRH), which adds the missing spatial dependencies to the LRH assumptions. We t
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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CUAWright: A Minimal Unified Interface for Digital Agents
arXiv:2610.04116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The prevailing approach to computer-use agents couples a model with a domain-specific harness: a browser or desktop environment equipped with human engineered tools that are fixed before task execution. As models' coding capabilities improve, the GUI native and static harness prevents them from direct programmatic operation on system state, as well as flexible construction of tools. To this end, we introduce CUAWright, a minimal terminal harness of roughly 3K lines of code that uses bash commands as its sole action interface, and a file system as
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Auditing Pairwise Equivalence Judgments: Self-Critique Effects and Diversity Measurement in Multi-Agent Hypothesis Generation
arXiv:2610.04133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to scientific discovery and hypothesis generation. Both the effect of refinement and the diversity of the delivered set are hard to interpret before experimental ground truth exists, and both are typically reported by deciding whether pairs of generated hypotheses describe the same underlying mechanism. We study two evaluation questions that rest on this pairwise equivalence judgment: (1) how much self-critique changes delivered hypotheses beyond run-to-run variabi
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Self-Propagating Misalignment in LLM Agents, and Why Auditing or Disabling Memory Is Not Enough
arXiv:2610.04083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory poisoning attacks on LLM agents typically assume an external adversary who plants content in the agent's persistent memory to steer its behavior. We instead study, with no adversary involved, whether a misaligned agent can write a goal it cannot yet act on to persistent memory, so that a future aligned agent carries it out when the opportunity arises. We investigate this threat, which we refer to as self-propagation of misalignment, across 20 different scenarios, whose misaligned goals include self-preservation, power-seeking, undermining
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Reinforcement Learning with Comparative Evidence for Social Intelligence
arXiv:2610.04072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing socially intelligent AI remains heavily dependent on human-annotated data, limiting the scale and breadth of social understanding models can acquire. Methods that derive training signals from unlabeled data offer a path beyond this dependence, but social predictions lack the verification oracles available in mathematics and coding. Moreover, core social targets such as affect, intent, preference, and pragmatic meaning are often ambiguous. The same behavior can support multiple plausible interpretations, making it difficult to verify wh
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Fine-Tuning VLM for Enhancing AI's Spatial Intelligence: Understanding 3D and 2D Rotations
arXiv:2610.04206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial intelligence is a fundamental skill in multiple domains, such as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), Medicine, Architecture, and Construction. Recent studies indicate that Vision-Language Models (VLMs) still face limitations in spatial reasoning, which inhibits artificial intelligence (AI) from performing practical spatial tasks. Using multiple object-rotation datasets developed for training and evaluation, our experiments demonstrated promising improvements in both 2D and 3D rotation detection. Fine-tuned Google Dee
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Agentic Cognitive Depth: Operational Criteria for Evaluating LLM Agents
arXiv:2610.04168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic large language model (LLM) systems are commonly implemented as an LLM in a loop with Planning, Memory, Tools, and Control Flow. This application-focused view connects agentic LLM research with deployable systems and leaves open how such systems should be evaluated beyond end-to-end task success. Building on this view, we define agentic cognitive depth as a trajectory-level profile across five operational criteria. The profile contains context sensitivity ($C$), temporal continuity ($T$), multimodal coordination ($M$), adaptive interaction
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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TCMClinicalReason-Bench: Can Language Models Reason from Pathogenesis to Prescription over Real-World Clinical Cases?
arXiv:2610.04215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate clinical narratives that are insufficiently grounded in patient-specific evidence. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), errors can propagate from etiology and pathogenesis through syndrome diagnosis and treatment principles to prescription generation. We developed TCMClinicalReason-Bench using 2,000 multicenter electronic health record cases to distinguish case-grounded responses from fluent but unsupported diagnostic and therapeutic conclusions. Five general-purpose and two TCM-specific LLMs were evalu
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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SkillScriptBench: Benchmarking Self-Evolution of Executable Agent Skill Packages Beyond Markdown
arXiv:2610.04008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Executable Agent Skills combine natural-language instructions and scripts into reusable packages for LLM agents, and revising them requires fixing errors without breaking correct behavior. Existing benchmarks do not systematically distinguish documentation repair, script repair, and preservation when evaluating skill self-evolution. We introduce SkillScriptBench, a 350-task benchmark designed to evaluate these capabilities separately. From a survey of over 35,000 GitHub-hosted Skill roots, we select 100 packages and construct 150 repair tasks. Ea
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Exploration-Preserving Policy Optimization
arXiv:2610.04011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves reasoning, while the allocation of learning signal shapes which solutions remain accessible under repeated sampling. Group-relative objectives assign equal advantages to equally rewarded responses, making aggregate credit proportional to sampled mode frequency. We introduce Exploration-Preserving Policy Optimization (ExPPO), a lightweight advantage-shaping rule that redistributes credit using prompt-relative, length-normalized response surprisal and prompt pass rate. ExPPO combines bounded s
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Discrete Diffusion for Large Graph Generation via Structural Candidate Restriction
arXiv:2610.04056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthesizing realistic graphs at scale is vital when the graphs of interest are large and real-world samples are limited or access-sensitive. Diffusion-based generators have recently driven much of the progress, offering high modeling capacity, but most such methods have quadratic computational complexity and are hence restricted to small-scale networks, currently up to 3k nodes. Existing non-quadratic methods remain limited by memorization issues and a trade-off between scalability and generation quality. Our goal is to generate large graphs who
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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The Cost of a Hop: Benchmarking NLIP and A2A
arXiv:2610.04053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents built on Large Language Models (LLMs) need standardized protocols to interoperate across systems. Several now exist (A2A, MCP, ACP, ANP, NLIP), but the Natural Language Interaction Protocol (NLIP) has not appeared in any controlled performance study, and no work has measured where an agent protocol's latency is spent. We compare NLIP and the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol empirically, decomposing latency into message creation, connection, and send phases across three independent hardware environments. For lightweight coordination
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Beyond the Parameter Monolith: Reconstructive Memories, Executable Skills, and Residual Assembly for Language Models
arXiv:2610.04012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model systems can separate contextual computation, persistent storage, and exact execution instead of updating all capabilities through one shared parameter system. We investigate FEM-ASM, a finite-element-method-inspired organization in which independently constructed document states and deterministic executable skills contribute typed proposals to a shared language-model state. An explicit residual operator reconciles proposals attached to common interface nodes. We evaluate this organization through controlled experiments and negative
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Behavioral History Outperforms Descriptions of the Person for LLM Synthetic Personas
arXiv:2610.03998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as synthetic personas representing survey respondents. Their validity as substitutes for particular respondents depends on whether they reproduce individuals' decisions. We examine what information helps synthetic respondents predict each individual's later choices, using five conditions that add progressively richer information: no personal information, demographics, personality traits, cognitive scores, and finally the respondent's earlier survey choices as behavioral history. We use a two-wave
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Teaching Agents to Code Reliably
arXiv:2610.03984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous coding agents solve repository issues by reading code, running commands, editing files, and submitting patches. Extra inference-time compute yields gains only when it produces a useful repair and supplies reliable evidence for choosing one. Three behaviors decide both, and we argue they are teachable rather than byproducts of scale, so a policy can carry them instead of a scaffold. Location diversity remains narrow, since attempts return to the same site and extra samples add no coverage. Edit diversity is left unexploited, since metho
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Towards Safer Autonomous Driving in an Open World: A Dual-Process Approach
arXiv:2610.04088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Before autonomous driving systems can be deployed on public roads, it is vital that these systems comply with safety standards, traffic rules, and social norms. Although neural networks trained on large amounts of driving data perform well in routine driving tasks, these models often struggle in novel situations that are not well-represented in the data. In this work, we propose a novel framework that combines a neural network for intuitive, learning-based planning in routine driving tasks with model predictive control for reasoning-based plannin
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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A Quantitative Analysis of Graph Representation Strategies for Cyber Attack Detection
arXiv:2610.04019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph based cyber attack detection studies employ various graph construction and representation strategies across different cybersecurity application domains. This diversity motivates a quantitative examination of how representation strategies are distributed across these application domains. This study presents a quantitative analysis of 37 original studies published between 2019 and 2026. Each study was coded according to publication year, application domain, graph representation type, feature extraction strategy, learning paradigm, algorithm,
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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The Reported Engagement with AI Level (REAL) Rating: A Framework for Disclosing Human-AI Collaboration
arXiv:2610.04021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence has become increasingly incorporated into digital media and more generally into production workflows with which the public frequently interacts. Current provenance standards and disclosure methods frequently rely on binary categorizations, differentiating only between entirely human-authored and AI-generated content, or depend on technical watermarking that lacks user-facing clarity. However, there are very different risks and outcomes depending on the different uses of AI in the creation and consumption of end
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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ROAR: Unifying Runs across Heterogeneous AI-Driven Research Systems
arXiv:2610.03966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Each run of an AI-driven research system (ADRS) is an expensive search over a vast solution space, and dependable evaluation requires many runs, making run data both costly to produce and valuable to retain for large-scale analysis. Yet this data remains fragmented: teams operate in isolation, ADRS frameworks emit results in different formats, and no shared infrastructure exists to aggregate or compare runs across problems and systems. We present ROAR, a solution for systematically unifying and analyzing heterogeneous ADRS outputs. ROAR addresses
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Agent Policy-Value Audit: Separating Transition Composition from Event Selection in Financial LLM Agents
arXiv:2610.04040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial LLM agents are often evaluated by comparing their end-to-end returns with those of a baseline and testing the paired difference against zero. This measures whether deploying the agent changes realized performance, but it does not isolate event-selection skill. An agent that frequently changes positions from flat to long can earn a positive paired return from an upward-drifting event pool even when it selects events at random. We propose the Agent Policy-Value Audit, which holds fixed the observed count of each ordered action-change type
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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Agentic AI with Structured CoT for Enhancing AI's Spatial Intelligence: Visualization and Reasoning of Rotation
arXiv:2610.04188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent studies show that artificial intelligence (AI) with language and vision capabilities still experiences limitations in spatial reasoning. In this paper, we have studied the spatial capabilities of advanced generative AI to understand the rotations of objects in 3D space, utilizing AI's image processing and language processing features. We trained and examined the spatial intelligence of a generative Agentic AI model (GPT-5.6) to understand the spatial rotation process with rotation diagrams based on the revised Purdue Spatial Visualization
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat
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On the Steering Dimensionality of Refusal in Language Models
arXiv:2610.04245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing activation steering methods often assume that a high-level concept can be mediated by a single steering direction. To support this, two complementary interventions should be achieved: additive steering should induce the target behavior, while directional ablation should suppress it. Yet behaviors may occupy richer activation geometries beyond a single direction, and semantically similar behaviors may be represented by distinct directions. In this work, we study how many directions can reliably control two different types of refusal behav
Labor research/Confidence:74 · moderate/Verified by AIKillsWhat