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19 Aug 2026 edition

522 articles · 10 sources · 511 papers ·

Top topics: AI · AI Research · AI Labs

Python AI Django

Quoting Jeremy Morrell

My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web. LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code

Last week I recorded an episode of the Talking Postgres podcast with Claire Giordano on the subject of "How AI is changing software development". We had a really great conversation. Here are a couple of my highlights…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
AI Research AI

The Problem Is the Problem: Towards Scalable Mathematical Discovery

arXiv:2608.16977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are increasingly capable of contributing to mathematical research. In research practice, frontier-model reasoning is a limited resource, and expert mathematical…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Zeyu Zheng, Shengtong Zhang, Jeremy Avigad, Prasad Tetali, Sean Welleck
AI Research AI

When Agents Act on Web3: An Attack-Surface Survey of MCP, Skills, and Tool Calling

arXiv:2608.17275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents increasingly act rather than merely read: across the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, the share of deployed tools that modify external state has risen…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Rabimba Karanjai (Larry), Yang Lu (Larry), Nour Diallo (Larry), Wujie Xiong (Larry), Lei Xu (Larry), Weidong (Larry), Shi
AI Research AI

Rationale-Guided Learning for Multimodal Emotion Recognition

arXiv:2608.10448v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) requires understanding complex interactions between verbal and non-verbal cues. However, most existing approaches…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Sujung Oh, Jung Uk Kim, Sangmin Lee
AI Research AI

Wuying-Browser-Agent: Real-World Centric Fundamental Long-Horizon Browser Agents

arXiv:2608.17319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Browser agents perform well on short, clean demonstrations, but real deployment is fundamentally different: agents must sustain dozens of decisions on live websites while…

Source: arXiv cs.AI AIMAE Team, Tianxiang Chen, Yan Cheng, Zhangye Han, Xiaowei Li, Chang Liu, Cheng Liu, Zhongqiang Ma, Long Peng, Xiaobing Tu, Yinggui Wang, Hongliang Wei, Chen Wu, Daiping Xin, Kunyu Zhou, Pengyang Zh…
AI Research AI

Planning under Distribution Shifts with Causal POMDPs

arXiv:2602.23545v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the real world, planning is often challenged by distribution shifts. As such, a model of the environment obtained under one set of conditions may no longer remain…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Matteo Ceriscioli, Karthika Mohan

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