arXiv:2608.26190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models enable agents to reason about future outcomes and learn policies from their knowledge of…
Agentic AI for operating scientific instruments for nanoscale characterization
arXiv:2608.26198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operating a scientific instrument such as an atomic force microscope (AFM) requires continuous expert…
NVIDIA Posts $96.2B Quarter as Data Center Revenue Hits $89B
NVIDIA reported revenue of $96.2 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2027, ended July 26, 2026, up 18% from the previous quarter and up 106% from a…
AffectOmni: RL-Verifiable People-Centric Grounded Affective Reasoning for Social and Art-Related Scenes
arXiv:2608.26193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on VQA and scene understanding, yet…
Can You Say This for Me? Speaking Up by Proxy in Co-Located Discussion
arXiv:2608.26185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equal participation in co-located discussion is important for effective collaboration, yet people often…
TutorTrace: A Dataset and Taxonomy for Classifying Learner Behavioral States during AI-Assisted Programming Education
arXiv:2608.26184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI programming tutors provide scalable support, yet lack the behavioral context human tutors rely on to…
Is Your Neighborhood Safe? Place-based Stigma in Large Language Models’ Urban Safety Judgments
arXiv:2608.26188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used to inform safety decisions in cities, such as where it is safe…
Invocation-Level Reliability of Tool-Using Agents
arXiv:2608.26189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using agents fail two ways: choosing the wrong tool, or forming wrong arguments, and an early failure…
Deep Cogito Raises $43M Series A to Build the Post-Training Engine for Self-Improving AI
Deep Cogito has raised a $43 million Series A as the San Francisco AI lab looks to scale an increasingly important part of the artificial intelligence…
Why did My Robot Just Change Personality? Prompting Guidelines for a Grounded Robot Persona in LLM-Based HRI
arXiv:2608.26182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for verbal interaction in social robots, yet prompt…
AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-08-28 08h : 18 posts
18 posts published in the last hour 05:33A Task-Centric Ontology and Deterministic Domain Rules as a Verifiable Core for AI-Assisted Chemistry Problem Solving 05:33Refusal Is Not Robustness: Auditing Confident Fabrication in Large Language Models on a Provably Uninformative Clinical Pain…
A Task-Centric Ontology and Deterministic Domain Rules as a Verifiable Core for AI-Assisted Chemistry Problem Solving
arXiv:2608.26164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can interpret natural-language chemistry questions, but their internal reasoning is…
Refusal Is Not Robustness: Auditing Confident Fabrication in Large Language Models on a Provably Uninformative Clinical Pain Speech Transcript
arXiv:2608.26167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hallucination and abstention benchmarks rarely establish that a model could not have known the correct…
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.
Knowledge Cards: Structured Knowledge for AI Systems
arXiv:2608.26176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems whose outputs inform real decisions, and increasingly consequential ones, require something…
Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI
Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.
AI Revealed Preferences
arXiv:2608.26178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There is growing interest in whether language models have stable preferences, for technical, safety, and…
How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?
Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?