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  1. Research published
    IMPACT 40

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

    MemLeak: Cross-User Semantic Leakage in Multi-Tenant AI Agent Memory

    arXiv:2610.04195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal AI agents in enterprise multi-tenant deployments share a common vector store for long-term memory. Shared embedding spaces create a surface for cross-user memory leakage: a user's query can retrieve semantically adjacent memories belonging to another user through ordinary cosine-similarity retrieval, without any exploit. We formalize this as cross-user admissibility failure and evaluate it across six experiments, plus follow-up ablations, under both sparse (TF-IDF) and production-faithful (MiniLM-L6-v2) retrieval. Non-adversarial, incide

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

    Proxy Confidence: Auditing Black-Box LLM Agents with a Surrogate's Log-Probabilities

    arXiv:2610.03894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A deployed LLM agent emits tool calls, queries, and code that can be silently wrong -- by the time the error surfaces, the action has run. Frontier chat APIs hide the model's token probabilities; the agent's stated confidence barely beats chance on the mistakes that matter; and resampling does not help, since frontier models are highly repetitive, reproducing the same call across samples. We recover the missing signal from a low-cost open-weight surrogate run in parallel. It reads the same context, schema, and proposed action as the agent, then s

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

    Asynchronous Is Nearly Free for Evolution Strategies on Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks

    arXiv:2610.04196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based long-horizon agentic post-training is often bottlenecked by rollout generation: trajectories span many interaction turns, completion times vary substantially, and synchronous update barriers leave faster workers waiting for stragglers. Asynchronous reinforcement learning which has been adopted in LLM post-training addresses this inefficiency by consuming trajectories as they arrive, but introduces policy lag and off-policy optimization. Evolution strategies (ES) offer a backpropagation-free alternative for LLM post-training, yet it reli

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

    REACT: Physically and Chemically Consistent Reconstruction of Marine Active Tracers

    arXiv:2610.03888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing global sea surface pH from sparse observations is critical for monitoring ocean acidification and understanding marine carbon cycling. Traditional assimilation and inverse models are physically grounded but costly for large-scale reconstruction. Recent black-box and physics-guided AI models improve efficiency, but are mainly designed for passive tracers, where the reconstructed variable is also the transported inventory. In contrast, pH is an active carbonate tracer: it is the prediction target, while dissolved inorganic carbon (DI

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

    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 releaseConfidence:78 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  7. Research published
    IMPACT 40

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

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

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

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

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

    SGAnalog: An End-to-End Circuit Benchmark from Open-Source Silicon Tapeouts

    arXiv:2610.03934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing analog integrated circuit design benchmarks make two questions hard to answer: whether a model has learned transferable circuit skills rather than recalled familiar examples, and whether its output works under defined process and test conditions. We introduce a benchmark built from human-designed, open-source circuits associated with Tiny Tapeout manufacturing shuttles. The collection contains 273 topologically distinct top-level designs. Every source is retrieved at the revision recorded for its shuttle submission and processed in a fix

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

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

    Training Numerical Intelligence via Auto-Diagnosis and Skill Discovery

    arXiv:2610.03872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of generating scientific code, but generating code is not the same as improving the algorithms behind it. For numerical solvers, execution feedback can expose poor performance, but rarely reveals its underlying cause and how to address it. We introduce Auto-Diagnosis and Skill Discovery (ADSD), a framework that links numerical diagnosis to reusable solver self-improvement. ADSD follows a diagnosis-first paradigm that first explains why a solver performs poorly, then uses this diagnosis to guide the disc

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

    LLMs may have helped my RSI

    102 HN points. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973644

    Labor researchConfidence:68 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  16. New capability
    IMPACT 40

    Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

    264 HN points. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970667

    Verified signalConfidence:70 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  17. Research published
    IMPACT 20

    Our approach to EU text provenance rules

    How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules. Learn where watermarks apply, how detection works, and why access starts with researchers.

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

    The lamps in my house

    349 HN points. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965152

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

    Building advertising for the way people use AI

    OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.

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

    World's first desktop computer found in London house clearance; 1972 model sold for £37,179

    During a house clearance in London in 2023, a remarkable discovery was made: rare desktop computers from 1972, namely the Q1 and Q1 Lite models. Their significance in computing history cannot be overstated.

    Labor researchConfidence:50 · lowVerified by AIKillsWhat
  22. New model
    IMPACT 45

    OpenAI Cancels October Launch of New AI 'GPT-6.1 Astra' Due to Failure to Meet 'Honesty' and 'Autonomy' Standards

    Astra,' which was scheduled for release in October. U.S. media reported this on September 28 (U.S. time). The reason is that internal testing showed a decline in 'honesty' and 'ability to stay within

    Frontier releaseConfidence:78 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
  23. New model
    IMPACT 45

    OpenAI delays new AI model over security concerns

    OpenAI says it is delaying the release of a new artificial intelligence model out of security concerns voiced by its researchers, the latest in the company's effort to decelerate the pace of the techn

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

    AI is being taught how to do your job. Will artificial intelligence replace us, or just change the way we work?

    It's become a booming industry: teaching artificial intelligence how to get better at doing all kinds of jobs. As AI advances, many fear what this tech means for the future of work.

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

    AI Costs More Than The People It Replaced

    This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The tech sector is facing a costly paradox: companies are laying off workers to invest in AI, yet the technology often costs more than the human ...

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

    DataWeave: Deploying Human-LLM Analytics for Exploratory Structured Data Analysis

    arXiv:2610.02679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data journalism, the practice of using data analysis to surface newsworthy stories, depends increasingly on the ability of reporters and investigative journalists to uncover trends, disparities, and accountability narratives. In practice, exploring large structured datasets remains slow and brittle: journalists must navigate hundreds of variables across many datasets over years, understand data coding conventions, and write non-trivial analysis code while hypotheses evolve. Although LLMs are often touted as "ask in English, get SQL/answers," real

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

    Batched Speech Decisions Without Decoding: Single-Token Supervision Lets a Frozen LLM Hear Beyond the Transcript

    arXiv:2610.02638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-duplex voice agents make many small, closed decisions, which current systems answer by slow autoregressive decoding. We propose DuplexJev, which feeds ASR-encoder hidden states through a small connector into a frozen LLM and reads each question as a single-token distribution over its options. Nothing is decoded, and an 8-GPU node answers 80 decisions about eight utterances in about 0.1 s. With a last-layer connector, spoken QA stays close to reading the transcript (90% vs. 91%). DuplexJev also hears the speaker: gender and emotion accuracy b

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

    Coherence-Driven Belief Formation and Population Dynamics of Contagion in LLM Agents

    arXiv:2610.02654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Models of social contagion usually assume how individuals adopt beliefs and derive population behavior from it. We instead empirically measure belief adoption in language model agents, quantifying the probability an agent adopts a claim given how many peers endorse it. We find this adoption kernel to be sigmoid, a characteristic of complex contagion, with a threshold that is sensitive to three sources: the claim's plausibility, the source's reliability, and the agent's disposition. These three dimensions are well approximated by a single effectiv

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

    A GHOST in Long-Horizon Agents: Governance Hazard from Overlooked Safety Constraints across Turns

    arXiv:2610.02664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents are now playing an increasingly significant role in assisting humans with complex problem-solving. However, it is exactly their extended interaction history that introduces an underexplored execution-safety concern. Under benign interaction conditions, an agent may execute an action that violates a safety constraint specified many turns earlier. We term this failure mode Governance Hazard from Overlooked Safety Constraints across Turns (GHOST), which may cause irreversible damage. Our experiments reveal that GHOST events are n

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

    Designing the Future of User Feedback for Generative AI

    arXiv:2610.02631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-deployment feedback from users can be a cost-effective, scalable, and representative means to monitor and improve generative AI systems and features. When implemented effectively, giving such feedback can increase users' engagement with and trust in GenAI systems. Government regulations and industry guidelines call for post-deployment user engagement, but there is little guidance on designing mechanisms that are usable for consumers and provide actionable input for product teams. We conducted a multi-phase study as a collaboration between ac

    Labor researchConfidence:74 · moderateVerified by AIKillsWhat
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