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Where the Agent Development Lifecycle Fits

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How to Build a Control Plane for AI Agents

Giving an LLM permission to act, in 9 steps The post How to Build a Control Plane for AI Agents appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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Meta’s Muse Hit 5 Million Downloads. The Bigger Story Is How It Got There

Meta’s Muse reached an estimated 5 million downloads in just 22 days, helped by one of the biggest distribution machines in tech. The bigger test is whether Meta can turn that reach into lasting control over how people…

Investigators Found a New Problem With OpenAI’s Rogue Agents: Missing Evidence

OpenAI’s latest rogue-agent story is less about a proven government hack than a growing accountability problem. As agents stitch together outside services, the evidence needed to investigate their behavior can become…

OpenAI Agent Security: The New Rules for Containing AI Agents

An OpenAI Agent Security engineer says frontier AI containment now depends on layered isolation, permissions, monitoring, alignment, and incident-response culture. The Hugging Face incident shows why.

AI Skill of the Day Digest — September 2026 (Part 2)

Explore 13 practical AI skills from September 16–30, with workflows for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Jev, Codex, and AI agents.

Can Light Make Deepfake Detection Cheaper? UCLA Researchers Think So

UCLA researchers are testing a hybrid optical-neural system that screens 15 videos in parallel. The prototype reached 97.79% accuracy on Celeb-DF and could reduce the computing demands of initial deepfake screening.

Hob-VL: A Benchmark for Visually Grounded Boolean Reasoning

arXiv:2610.01605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable visual reasoning requires composing multiple visual observations and returning consistent answers to logically equivalent questions. We introduce Hob-VL, a…

Structure-agnostic Causal Representation Learning

arXiv:2610.00968v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal representation learning aims to discover robust features by exploiting the causal structure underlying data generation. Existing methods require specifying the…

On-Device Named-Entity Recognition: A Deployability Study of Accuracy, Cost, Reliability, and Confidence

arXiv:2610.00007v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Named-entity recognition (NER) is increasingly wanted on-device (no API, low latency, data kept local). The practitioner's question is not the leaderboard but which…

LENS-GRF: Permutation-Invariant Lesion Evidence Network with Gated Residual Fusion for Acne Severity Grading and Multi-Rater Clinical Oracle Analysis

arXiv:2610.00294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated acne severity grading requires both whole-face context and fine-grained lesion evidence. We propose LENS-GRF (Lesion Evidence Network with Set-Transformer and…

PG-SFT: Balancing Capability Acquisition and Retention in Offline Agent Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2610.00949v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on offline agent trajectories is the standard approach for training specialized tool-using agents, but forcing models to imitate reasoning and…

Agent Evaluation Reliability: More Tasks Won't (Always) Fix An Agent Leaderboard

arXiv:2610.00651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent evaluations are increasingly used to compare LLMs and inform deployment decisions, yet ranks can reflect not only the model but also the effects of the evaluation…

HumanoidToolBench: Benchmarking Humanoid Tool Use from Selection to Mobile Execution

arXiv:2610.02089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As robotic hardware and learning methods advance, humanoids need tools to perform tasks beyond their inherent physical limits. Successful tool use requires selecting a…

MCIR: A Feature Dependence-Aware Explainability Method with Reliability Guarantees

arXiv:2610.01641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern machine-learning models often contain strongly dependent or redundant features, making feature attribution difficult because shared predictive information can be…

Functional Architecture of European Electricity Trading Markets: Requirements for AI Supported Trading Systems under Regulatory Constraints

arXiv:2609.29108v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: European electricity trading in the EU operates as a constrained multi-layer system in which legal design, exchange microstructure, and network physics are executed…

Evaluating Physical Consistency and Plausibility in Generative Scenario Models for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2610.01581v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI models are increasingly used for scenario generation in autonomous driving. While they can generate realistic-looking scenarios, they often provide limited…

When Harnesses Lose the Signal: Causal Evaluation of Recovery in LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.00372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents rely on external harnesses to pass information between the model and its environment and to recover from execution errors. Yet recovery is…