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DeepWeaver: Bridging the Evidence Synthesis Gap in Open-Ended Question Answering
arXiv:2608.18988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieve-then-generate pipelines are commonly used to produce deep-research answers for open-ended…
Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits — but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders
Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid. Rippling celebrated by releasing a competing product.
Training Chemical Plausibility-Aware Large Language Models for Single-Step Retrosynthesis
arXiv:2608.18940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-step retrosynthesis is a central component of computer-aided synthesis planning, yet its…
Meet UPDF: A Lightweight Adobe Alternative Built for the Agentic Era
PDFs are easy to read and hard to change. AI can now summarize a 90-page contract in seconds, but it still won’t rewrite the source file cleanly. UPDF is…
rEDMRec: Distilling Large Language Model Reasoning into an Editable Experience Memory for Recommendation
arXiv:2608.18952v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models can improve recommendation quality by reasoning explicitly over user history and…
Claude Outage Hits Claude.ai, API, Claude Code and Cowork as Errors Spread Across Models
Anthropic opened an incident on August 20, 2026, after elevated errors began hitting requests to what the company described as some Claude models, with…
MedUAG: Unified Understanding and Generation for Medical Multimodal Models
arXiv:2608.18937v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are rapidly evolving into unified understanding and…
Graphical Design of Interpretable Architectures
arXiv:2608.18936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing, implementing, and comparing interpretable architectures requires a formal language to…
SkillForge: Self-Distilling Agents for Project-Specific Issue Resolution
arXiv:2608.18933v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) based agents have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in automated software…