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arXiv:2608.22852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in investment decision-making, yet prior work shows that they exhibit systematic, model-specific inve

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aiXamine: Unified Black-Box Evaluation of Cross-Dimensional Trade-offs in LLM Safety, Security, and Privacy

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arXiv:2608.20554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The critical failure modes in deployed large language models (LLMs) are cross-dimensional: a model can score 99.3 in safety alignment while refusing o

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24 Aug 2026

// Applying Anthropic Primitives at Large Enterprises // Frontier models collapsed the cost of writing custom code. But they did not reduce …

// Applying Anthropic Primitives at Large Enterprises // Frontier models collapsed the cost of writing custom code. But they did not reduce the cost of reviewing and maintaining it. Each bespoke solut

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ARQ: Agentic CodeQL Query Refinement for C/C++ Vulnerability Detection

arXiv:2608.20637v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Static analyzers have been widely adopted for vulnerability detection in C/C++ programs. Query-based static analyzers (e.g., CodeQL) encode vulnerable

CARD: Diagnosing Belief to Action Routing Failures in Vision Language Models

arXiv:2608.20763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linear probes and activation steering have uncovered that vision-language models (VLMs) internally represent mental states such as agents' beliefs, kn

Local Ai

is there a music UPSCALER llm?

similar to video upscaler LLMs, what's the bleeding edge right now on something similar for audio music? the idea is you feed it in with a low bitrate MONO old soundtrack, and the LLM then recreates i

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MM-ToolSandBox: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Visual Tool-Calling Agents

arXiv:2607.11818v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce MM-ToolSandBox, a benchmark and evaluation framework for visually grounded tool-calling agents. The framework provides a stateful

Our 2nd founder dinner in SF co-hosted by @jerryjliu0 and @GuangyuRobert at @Fundamental - the team behind @tryshortcutai Talking about exis…

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Our 2nd founder dinner in SF co-hosted by @jerryjliu0 and @GuangyuRobert at @Fundamental - the team behind @tryshortcutai Talking about existing moats in the AI era. Frontier labs are moving past mode

Peer-Voted LLM-Agent Stress Tests Find Feed-Induced Lexical Convergence but No Reliable Matched-Exposure Advantage for Distributed Sources

arXiv:2608.20438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Population-level behavior in large-language-model (LLM) agents cannot be characterized by single-agent benchmarks. We introduce PV-SST, a peer-voted s

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ProofJudge: Tool-Grounded LLM Evaluation of Formal Proof Quality in Mathlib

arXiv:2608.20432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Formal proofs in Lean 4 that pass the kernel's type checker can nonetheless vary widely in quality. We introduce ProofJudge, an agentic LLM-as-judge s

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Quantization-Aware Healing: A Practical Recipe for Recovering Compressed, 4-Bit LLMs

arXiv:2608.20953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Serving large language models cheaply increasingly means shipping models that are both structurally compressed to a fraction of their parameters and q

RARE: Decoupling Representation Steering from Expert Routing in Mixture-of-Experts Language Models

arXiv:2608.21236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Representation engineering offers a lightweight means of controlling language-model behavior by modifying intermediate hidden states, but its direct app

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Structure for Reading, Prose for Writing: Asymmetric Structural Conditioning in Multi-Agent Document Authoring

arXiv:2608.20786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent pipelines that author formal documents must both read a requester's forms and write against them. We report a deployed tender-response syste

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Today, we’re announcing a strategic collaboration with @HUMAIN spanning AI infrastructure, advanced model development, and the deployment of…

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Today, we’re announcing a strategic collaboration with @HUMAIN spanning AI infrastructure, advanced model development, and the deployment of AI solutions in Saudi Arabia and across the region. Togethe

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Who Do Language Models Think Is Competent? A Mechanistic Analysis of Occupational Bias

arXiv:2608.20347v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models (LMs) often pass behavioral bias evaluations, but it remains unclear whether they no longer represent the underlying associations that

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Do you know you can use open weight models like GLM, Deepseek, Kimi in Claude Code? Setup Fireworks account - you get free credits on signup…

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Do you know you can use open weight models like GLM, Deepseek, Kimi in Claude Code? Setup Fireworks account - you get free credits on signup curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fw-ai/fireconn

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Auditing Cross-Lingual Fairness in Language Model Watermarking

arXiv:2608.20047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Watermarking schemes for large language model output are evaluated almost exclusively on English text using each scheme's detection threshold and a narr

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Calibrated Triage, Not Autonomy: Confidence Estimation for Medical Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606.15910v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A vision-language model can answer a question about a chest radiograph or a pathology slide fluently and confidently while barely using the image, r

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Compliance, Capability, and Conflict: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs under System Messages

arXiv:2608.19207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production deployments of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) increasingly rely on system messages to govern model behavior. Yet existing benchmark

FleetSieve: Decision-Critical Profiling for SLO-Aware LLM Fleet Configuration

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arXiv:2608.19659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Choosing tensor-parallel (TP) degrees and replica counts for an LLM serving fleet is difficult because performance is not monotonic in TP and the feasib

Frequency-Aware Continual Learning for Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection with Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.19680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Smart contract vulnerability detection with Large Language Models (LLMs) faces three causally linked challenges. First, new vulnerability categories dem

Inkling and Inkling Small are now served directly by @thinkymachines on OpenRouter, free to use inside agentic harnesses only. Plug them int…

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Inkling and Inkling Small are now served directly by @thinkymachines on OpenRouter, free to use inside agentic harnesses only. Plug them into Claude Code, Codex, Hermes Agent and more to unlock the fr

OenoBench: A Wine-Domain Benchmark for Knowledge-Grounded Evaluation of Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.20106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce OenoBench, a wine-domain knowledge benchmark of 3,266 multiple-choice questions across six pillars (regions, grape varieties, viticulture,

One Success Isn't Reliability: Thinkingbox, a Sandbox and Benchmark for Agents in Stateful Business Workflows

arXiv:2608.19741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent agent benchmarks increasingly ground evaluation in executable environments, from code repair to web navigation, app APIs, and function calling. Y

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

When Text and Numbers Disagree: Evidence Arbitration in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.20116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in settings where textual summaries, numerical observations, and external tool outputs may provide co

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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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Compress and Forget: bitsandbytes Quantization Amplifies Proactive Interference in LLMs

arXiv:2608.18578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proactive interference (PI) is a documented failure mode in large language models in which retrieval of a repeatedly overwritten value degrades as prior

Evaluating Structured Information Extraction with Open Models in a High Risk Public Sector Application

arXiv:2608.18289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The extraction of structured information from unstructured documents represents a critical component of digital transformations in all sectors. While pr

Latent Space Refusal Anchoring for Low-Resource African Languages: Mechanistic Safety Recovery Without Retraining

arXiv:2608.18089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction-tuned models often refuse harmful requests in English but comply with the same requests in Yoruba, Igbo, Igala, and Hausa. This suggests t

Million-scale multimodal pollen microscopy with expert-guided foundation models

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arXiv:2606.17809v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated pollen identification from microscopy remains a bottleneck in aerobiology, palaeoecology and biodiversity monitoring, because scalable sys

Safety Alignment Illusion: The Cross-Lingual Safety Gap in LLMs

arXiv:2608.18131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current safety alignment training for Large Language Models (LLMs) are heavily English-centric. When such safety filters fail for non-English languages,

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AISA: AI Safety Assistant Framework for Continuous Improvement of Highway Construction

arXiv:2608.17184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and pre-task planning can benefit from prior incident records, yet historical accident data is often stored as unstructured na

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BEAR-Bench: A Bilingual Enterprise and Academic Reasoning Benchmark for Multimodal Models

arXiv:2608.17895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made significant strides in visual comprehension, their ability to reason about text-dense, profes

Cytoarchitecture in Words: Weakly Supervised Vision-Language Modeling for Human Brain Microscopy

arXiv:2602.23088v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision foundation models increasingly support interactive scientific workflows, but natural-language interaction requires coupling visual representa

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New open-source agent harness just landed! I got early access to TrueForge by TrueFoundry and have been running it locally for the past few …

New open-source agent harness just landed! I got early access to TrueForge by TrueFoundry and have been running it locally for the past few days. The harness layer deserves as much attention as the mo

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PROBE: Manipulation-Grounded Visual Question Answering with VLM Agents

arXiv:2608.17129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language Models (VLMs) excel at 2D grounding, spatial reasoning and agentic tool-based planning in static scenes. However, consider asking a home

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SGHA: Evidence-Grounded Research Problem Discovery with Local Language Models

arXiv:2608.17501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent efforts toward fully automated AI scientists have demonstrated that language-model agents can generate hypotheses, execute experiments, and draft

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Which Source Wins? Task-Dependent Reliance in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.17205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) combine images and text, but when the two conflict and one becomes harder to read, it is unclear how a model shifts its re

Aborted but Not Forgotten: KV-Cache Retention Breaks Rollback Consistency in Language Agents

arXiv:2608.15939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stateful language agents assume a rejected branch can be taken back by clearing it from the application transcript. We show this breaks when the serving

Architecture-Dependent Causal Transfer of Activation States Across Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.16347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct communication between AI systems relies on natural language as an intermediate layer, incurring encoding/decoding overhead, token cost, and laten

CBX-Bench: A Human-Aligned MLLM Council for Benchmarking Concept Bottleneck Model Explanations

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arXiv:2608.15404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) are designed to make visual classification interpretable by expressing predictions through human-understandable concept

CEDAR-GRPO: Process-Aware Reinforcement Learning for General Abductive Reasoning in LLMs

arXiv:2608.14791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Abductive reasoning, often characterized as inference to the best explanation, is central to explanation under uncertainty, from everyday sense-making a

Decorrelation Is Not Complementarity: Skill, Not Lineage, Governs Trusted-Monitor Ensembles

arXiv:2608.16190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Trusted monitoring has a cheap, trusted model score a stronger untrusted model's actions, and a diverse ensemble of them beats a single stronger monit

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Evaluating Multimodal LLMs across Text and Audio Modalities for Accessible Disaster Assistance

arXiv:2608.14651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective disaster risk communication is a foundational humanitarian challenge, yet current emergency infrastructure fails to meet the needs of individu

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Frontier AI Forecasting Has a Measurement Problem: An Audit of Progress Evidence

arXiv:2608.14903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantitative forecasts of frontier artificial intelligence often connect dated targets to trends in benchmark scores, training compute, release time, or

Gathered, Not Admitted: How Attention Brings a Latent Variable into Verbalizable Form

arXiv:2608.15022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models hold latent quantities in a form they can report on, and more of a quantity is present in that form when the task requires reusing it fl

GLM-5.3 achieves 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 and up 7 points from GLM-5.2. Once the weights are re…

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GLM-5.3 achieves 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 and up 7 points from GLM-5.2. Once the weights are released it will be tied as the leading open weights model @Za