Letting an AI do your shopping might not get you the best deal. Researchers at the Wharton School show how erratic AI shopping agents really are: a single…
Task-Adaptive Rubrics for GUI Reward Modeling
arXiv:2608.24174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent studies on GUI agents have increasingly focused on outcome reward modeling, which assigns outcome…
Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight
Autonomous trucking company Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless freight operations across North America. The round…
Robust Code RL via Faulty-Code-Driven Test case Synthesis and Dense Reward Shaping
arXiv:2608.24135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a pivotal technique for enhancing the…
Raised on AI
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster…
AHEAD: Adaptive Hindsight with Environment-Augmented Distillation for Agentic RL
arXiv:2608.24114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training multi-turn LLM agents with reinforcement learning typically relies on trajectory-level rewards,…
Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
We’re opening a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification for AI agents to safely operate physical devices, to a first…
OmniJudge or OmniBias? Diagnosing Multimodal Judges through Balanced, Decoupled Lenses
arXiv:2608.24160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal understanding models that can jointly judge text-to-image (T2I), text-to-video (T2V) and…
OpenAI rallies 100+ companies to sign open letter warning AI-powered cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are imminent
OpenAI, together with more than 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, has published an open letter on…
Paritok-4B: Intent-Conditioned Context Compression for Coding Agents
arXiv:2608.24188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents re-send large file reads and tool outputs to a frontier LLM every turn, and this context…
ACE: A Self-Correcting Agentic Canvas Editor for Multi-Slide Presentation Automation
arXiv:2608.24103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Commercial design platforms increasingly edit documents through large language model (LLM) agents, but two…
EMRB: A Multi-Level Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Reasoning over Raw Electromagnetic Signals
arXiv:2608.24086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as code agents for scientific and engineering analysis,…
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings physical AI to drones and robots
NVIDIA has unveiled the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an edge robotics computer aimed at bringing physical AI to drones, robots, and vision systems. The company is…
Are Android GUI Agents Robust Against Runtime Anomalies? AnTrap: Evaluating Agents in Dynamic Adversarial Environments
arXiv:2608.24099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GUI agents often encounter dynamic anomalies when deployed on Android devices, from unexpected pop-ups to…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Some of the world’s largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution…
Scalable Question-Centric Text-to-Image Evaluation: Reliable Ranking, Fine-Grained Diagnosis, and Cost-Aware Routing
arXiv:2608.24112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern text-to-image (T2I) models often have similar total scores but different strengths, making…
Ian Leysen, CEO and Co-Founder of Datadobi – Interview Series
Ian Leysen, CEO and Co-Founder of Datadobi, is a technology executive with more than three decades of experience in software engineering, quality…
AgentWorld: Personality-Aware Reliability Evaluation for Agentic Information Retrieval
arXiv:2608.24076v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluation of agentic information retrieval remains limited to scripted interactions with uniform users,…