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The Logic of Machine Self-Preservation

arXiv:2608.20940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There is already evidence of agentic AI exhibiting self-preservation behaviors: resisting deactivation, misrepresenting their activities, and, in some i

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24 Aug 2026

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Volumetric Radiology AI in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Models

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arXiv:2608.20549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are extending radiological artificial intelligence (AI) beyond task-specific image analysis toward

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24 Aug 2026

we gave Hermes a phone. it connected over MCP, picked @Uber X, and booked the ride on a real Android device, not an emulator. Claude, Codex,…

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we gave Hermes a phone. it connected over MCP, picked @Uber X, and booked the ride on a real Android device, not an emulator. Claude, Codex, OpenClaw, Cursor all work the same way. Sign-in and your ag

24 Aug 2026

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WeedNet: A Foundation Model-Based Global-to-Local AI Approach for Real-Time Weed Species Identification and Classification

arXiv:2505.18930v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Early weed identification is crucial for effective management and control, and researchers, agronomists, and technology developers are increas

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24 Aug 2026

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and yet they expect $2T

Gary Marcus recently posted on Twitter questioning why investors still expect a $2 trillion valuation for AI‑related companies, despite broader market skepticism. The Financial Times has reported that

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Civitai now has a closed-source models option

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I haven't seen a post about this here, and I'm curious what you think about it. On August 14 Civitai rolled out the option for creators to choose 'permanent paid access - selling with no time cap'. Pr

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I ran the same utcnow migration twice: a local 27B I babysat, and an agent that could run the tests

The task was the same both times: replace 63 calls to datetime.utcnow() across 22 files in a Python service, keep the comparisons that assume naive datetimes working, and leave the tests green. I read

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Mozilla killed orbit. I rebuilt it locally.

Hey everyone! Last year, Mozilla released Orbit, an AI-powered browser summarizer hosted on a GCP server. After people started digging into the extension, they discovered things like backend endpoints

Tested in Coding: Q8_K_XL Qwen3.8 27B vs BF16 Qwen3.6 27B

Further to my last post, https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vldngi/tested_in_coding_bf16_muse_glimmer_vs_bf16_qwen36/, I bring this requested comparison of Qwen3.8 27B. Context: Both models

Benchmarking qwen3.8:27b by having it port a 34k line C game to one HTML file. The agent mattered more than I expected.

My hobby project skill-issue is an arena FPS in a single C file, about 34k lines, everything procedural. My test for local setups is to have an agent port it to a single file HTML version with three.j

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Industry

Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's 'ChatGPT moment' has yet to come (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come — Beijing policymakers ha

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llm 0.33

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Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2. #1608, #1631 I shipped a quick 0.32.1 fix for

OpenCode + llama.cpp + unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K_XL = only failure so far

Hi, I have been using opencode with openrouter for quite a while now. Having read the success stories of using Qwen3.8-27B, I thought of trying it too. But every attempt has been a failure for me so f

Row-Bot v4.8.0 is live

Row-Bot v4.8.0 is now available. This release adds provider-aware reasoning controls, letting each chat keep a valid reasoning choice for the exact model in use. Depending on model support, you can se

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Sharp template to NInfer: -42% output tokens, same speed

Sharp v22.1 is u/peculiar-ragdoll's system prompt that makes Qwen answer way more tersely without losing correctness. NInfer is a hyper-tailored inference engine that only runs certain Qwen models on

Active Inference as Context Acquisition for AI Agents

arXiv:2608.19202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive AI agents must acquire the right context as efficiently as possible. When a user omits a constraint, preference, file, or task variable, an

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Automated Summarization of Financial News Using Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation: An Early Empirical Study (Fall 2023)

arXiv:2608.19526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stock market analysts and investors face a daily challenge: too much financial news, too little time. Manually reading and synthesizing hundreds of co

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Automatic bioinformatic software named entity recognition from literature

arXiv:2608.19201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bioinformatics software and databases are essential components of modern life science research, yet their mentions in the scientific literature are of

Bringing analytic rigor to agentic AI for science: The Brain Researcher platform for neuroimaging data analysis

arXiv:2608.19902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can execute scientific analyses, but an analytic output becomes a defensible claim only after alternatives are weighed and the claim is limite

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DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests — DeepSeek unveiled an experim

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EchoCoT: Extracting Hidden Chain-of-Thought from Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2608.20055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hidden chain-of-thought (CoT) traces, especially those from frontier proprietary large reasoning models (LRMs), are valuable model assets. Yet whether

Tutorials

Escaping the Quicksand: A Call to Arms

arXiv:2608.19674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computing has been an astonishing success - but the accumulated technical debt exposes us all to huge costs in business and societal risk. For 75 year

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Tutorials

Feature Evolution and Migration during Vision Transformer Training

arXiv:2608.20134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel view on feature evolution in Vision Transformers (ViTs) by visualizing the training process over two dimensions -- network depth (lay

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Gen AI in Proof-based Math Courses: A Pilot Study

arXiv:2509.13570v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid rise of generative AI in higher education, understanding how students use AI is increasingly important. This exploratory study examin

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How agents can delegate better

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In any organizational behavior class, students will learn that effective delegation is among the most important skills for a seasoned leader. Getting meaningful work done involves careful coordination

I benchmarked Ox Alpha on SWE-bench Verified Mini (50 tasks): 96% resolved. Now I’m skeptical of myself.

TL;DR: The result looks TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE — that's exactly why I'm posting it. I ran Ox alpha on the entire SWE-bench Verified-Mini set with the official mini-swe-agent scaffold — the same agent use

Kimi K3 is now available on all Pro and Max subscriptions via included usage. More models coming soon 🫡

Kimi K3 is now available on all Pro and Max subscriptions via included usage. More models coming soon 🫡 .@Kimi_Moonshot Kimi K3 is starting to roll out on Ollama's cloud subscriptions. We are working

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Learning-Augmented Power System Operations: A Unified Optimization View

arXiv:2505.05203v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the increasing penetration of renewable energy and inverter-based resources, traditional physics-based power-system operation faces growi

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OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)

Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks — SAN FRANC

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Our general-purpose coding agent just scored 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark. NVIDIA AVO completed all 183 levels acro…

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Our general-purpose coding agent just scored 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark. NVIDIA AVO completed all 183 levels across all 25 public environments, figuring out what to do with

PrefixAgent: An LLM-Powered Design Framework for Efficient Prefix Adder Optimization

arXiv:2507.06127v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prefix adders are fundamental arithmetic circuits, but their design space grows exponentially with bit-width, posing significant optimization

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Question-Guided Evidence Acquisition for Multimodal Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2608.19739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal LLMs can see a document, but they often can't read it reliably. Small text, tables, visual cues, and topological elements still trip them u

SAE-Xplainers: Rule-Based Feature Interpretation for Extreme Earth Events

arXiv:2608.20117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emergence of large-scale Weather and Climate (W&C) datasets offers new opportunities for modeling extreme Earth events (ExEE) and their impacts usin

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Structured Affinity for Unsupervised Visual Class-Incremental Memory in Deep Artificial Immune Networks

arXiv:2608.20104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial immune networks (AINs) are naturally memory-forming systems, but conventional visual AINs often rely on flattened vector affinity that igno

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SwipeGen: Bridging the Execution Gap in GUI Agents via Human-like Swipe Synthesis

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arXiv:2601.18305v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite numerous Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents claiming to automate user interaction tasks, to date, few achieve satisfactory interaction ca

This is very nice work from NVIDIA. Like all high-performing approaches on ARC-AGI-3, it uses deep learning-guided on-the-fly synthesis of s…

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This is very nice work from NVIDIA. Like all high-performing approaches on ARC-AGI-3, it uses deep learning-guided on-the-fly synthesis of symbolic world models, i.e. navigating the world by generatin

This week’s ChatGPT feature drop - Aug 21: Another Friday, another roundup of what we shipped this week: 1/ Recent photos: Long press on + m…

This week’s ChatGPT feature drop - Aug 21: Another Friday, another roundup of what we shipped this week: 1/ Recent photos: Long press on + menu to quickly attach recents on iOS - this is a fun, power

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Hardware

TorchDCM: A Unified PyTorch-Native Package for Discrete Choice Modeling

arXiv:2608.19231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estimating large and simulation-intensive discrete choice models (DCMs) requires repeated evaluation of utilities, probabilities, derivatives, and sim

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Towards Surgical World-Action Modeling: A Preliminary Joint Visual-Trajectory Forecasting for Surgical Motion Planning

arXiv:2608.20284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable surgical planning requires models to anticipate not only how instruments will move, but also how the operative visual state will evolve togethe

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When Contextual Inference Fails: Cancelability in Interactive Instruction Following

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arXiv:2603.19997v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate the separation of literal interpretation from contextual inference in a collaborative block-building tasks, where an agent must resol

Your Turn: At Home Turning Angle Estimation for Parkinson's Disease Severity Assessment

arXiv:2408.08182v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: People with Parkinson's Disease (PD) often experience progressively worsening gait, including changes in how they turn around, as the disease

A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView

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Research: A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView Today saw the long awaited release of Bun 1.4, the first stable version since the infamous Rust rewrite a few months ago. Interesti

Adversarial Review: Structured Disagreement for Grounded Agentic Code Review

arXiv:2608.18167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early multi-agent LLM systems often used role-separated teams, yet scaling agent count yields diminishing returns on repository-level coding tasks. Rece

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Industry

Agree with @gdb that we need to arm cyber defenders much more than they are now, both with APIs and open models. The real cybersecurity risk…

Agree with @gdb that we need to arm cyber defenders much more than they are now, both with APIs and open models. The real cybersecurity risk of AI is asymmetry of power, capabilities and ressources be

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Artifact-centered Claim-aware Observability for Autonomous Scientific Agents

arXiv:2608.18312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous scientific agents now increasingly propose ideas, write code, run experiments, analyze results, and even draft papers. Observe and audit thos

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Banger paper on harness continual learning. (bookmark it) If you already are allowing your agents to rewrite their own prompts, skills, or m…

Banger paper on harness continual learning. (bookmark it) If you already are allowing your agents to rewrite their own prompts, skills, or memory files, this one is worth your time. (bookmark it) Cont

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Cacheable by Design? Training Mixture-of-Experts Routers for Locality Against the Edge Memory-Bandwidth Wall: A Pre-Registered Negative Result with a Systems Measurement Study

arXiv:2608.18261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Serving a 235B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model on a single 8 GB GPU is bottlenecked not by compute but by memory bandwidth: decode must stream

ComponentBench: Diagnosing Component-Level Failures in Computer-Use Agents

arXiv:2608.18307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current evaluation of computer-use agents is split between long-horizon workflow benchmarks and atomic GUI-grounding tests. This leaves an under-instrum