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Drive, Pack, Fly: The Travelling Thief Problem with Drone
arXiv:2608.16435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In collection operations, accumulating payload progressively slows the vehicle, imposing a cumulative…
AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-08-18 23h : 14 posts
14 posts published in the last hour 20:32AstronOS: A Unified Execution Model and Runtime for Long-Horizon Agentic Systems 20:32Process-Constituted Intelligence: A Shared Criterion for Humans and Machines 20:32What Does Context Compression Cost an Agent? Interaction Costs Unrevealed by Task-Completion Metrics…
AstronOS: A Unified Execution Model and Runtime for Long-Horizon Agentic Systems
arXiv:2608.16381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems often organize execution and state around a single conversation, model invocation, or…
Process-Constituted Intelligence: A Shared Criterion for Humans and Machines
arXiv:2608.16213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligence is constituted by \textit{process} (iterative activity through which output emerges), not in…
What Does Context Compression Cost an Agent? Interaction Costs Unrevealed by Task-Completion Metrics
arXiv:2608.16370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task completion is the standard metric for evaluating context compression, yet it is incomplete:…
OpenAI Puts $5M Behind AI Training and Tools for National Security Oversight Bodies
OpenAI launched an initiative on August 18, 2026 to strengthen democratic oversight of government AI use in national security, committing $5 million in…
AeroCopilotBench: A Two-Tier Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Agents as Aviation Copilots in an Interactive Virtual Cockpit Environment
arXiv:2608.16349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents may assist flight crews with complex decisions and task execution, but…
WhiteFiber Proposes $250M Convertible Senior Notes to Fund Data Center Expansion
WhiteFiber, the AI infrastructure and high-performance computing provider, said on August 18, 2026 that it intends to raise $250 million through a private…
DriveCache: Action-Aware Caching for Driving World Model Inference
arXiv:2608.16354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driving video generation models support autonomous-driving development by predicting controllable future…
BaT: Towards Self-Evolving Medical Research Agent with Stage Rubrics
arXiv:2608.16211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents are beginning to automate complete workflows that produce code, reports, and research…
Beyond Asking: A Pipeline for Personalized Game Generation that Reads Players from Behavior
arXiv:2608.16196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized game generation requires inferring a player’s abilities and behavioral style from how they…
Trajectory-Level Automatic Curriculum Learning for Legged Locomotion on Unstructured Terrain
arXiv:2608.16164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training locomotion policies for complex unstructured terrain requires a curriculum to avoid early…
Baseline-Relative Counterfactual Refinement for Bit-Aware Visual Token Communication
arXiv:2608.16192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative visual-token communication reduces transmission load by sending only selected discrete tokens…
Strengthening Democratic Oversight in National Security
OpenAI launches an initiative to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security, supporting government institutions with tools, training, and…
Competing at Every Price Point with Agentic Evolution over a Menu of LLMs
arXiv:2608.16207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Consider a firm that surveys its competition for a particular agentic task and seeks to offer superior…
AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-08-18 22h : 15 posts
15 posts published in the last hour 19:32Assessing LLMs’ mathematical abilities requires understanding the various mechanisms of mathematical creativity 19:32FeatureHospital: A Skill-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Algorithm Customization in Multi-View Multi-Label Feature Selection 19:32When Single-Dataset Conclusions Fail: A 45-Task Study…
Assessing LLMs’ mathematical abilities requires understanding the various mechanisms of mathematical creativity
arXiv:2608.16118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How should we assess whether large language models can perform mathematical invention? I argue that this…