News / #agents Tag Agents + tool use 500 articles archived under #agents · RSS Sign in to follow TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 16m ago Authors push back as publishers and agents seek share of Anthropic settlement Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments. 21 Don't Worry About the Vase community 1h ago OpenAI and the Wiki Incident I did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage. 37 r/LocalLLaMA community 4h ago Using GPT Astra to teach Qwen Next how to sculpt in 3D in Blender. Instead of distillation, fine-tuning, etc., I found a faster approach: having Codex+Astra to teach OpenCode + MCP Blender to make the modifications. Goal: achieve the same result using specific skills and steps. Astra is phenomenal, just as phenomenal as it is at quickly burning… 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 11h ago vibeblending locally with Qwen 3.8 27B You need Blender 5.x with MCP extension. I use pi so I also need: pi install npm:pi-mcp-adapter and then: $ cat .mcp.json { "mcpServers": { "blender": { "command": "/home/jacek/.local/bin/uvx", "args": [ "--with", "mcp[cli]<2.0.0", "--from",… 19 OpenAI official-blog 13h ago Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration. 24 r/MachineLearning community 20h ago Search agent beats GPT-6 Astra on benchmarks, just days after release [N]   submitted by   /u/Neither_You_5673 [link]   [comments] 4 r/MachineLearning community 21h ago Astra vs. Fable 5.1 on real ML tasks -- tradeoffs, strengths, shortcomings [P] I ran a side-by-side ML text-processing and model-training workflow using Fable 5.1 vs. Astra (both on xhigh), and the results could not have been more different. Warning, long post. TL;DR -- Astra codes more agentically, Fable more coherently. Fable writes better and follows… 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 22h ago Which agent harness do you use and why? I see a new one being launched every few days... How do these new harnesses compare to claude code, pi etc. has anyone switched from these? which harness to prefer and why   submitted by   /u/Background-Job-862 [link]   [comments] 12 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1d ago OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum. 14 r/LocalLLaMA community 1d ago Any resource on using Blender with local models, and which models work best? Hey all, I've seen some really fun looking things with people having their local models drive Blender to create pretty cool looking world scenes. Is there a good tutorial on setting up Blender yo be driven by your model? For example, what programming harness, do you use a MCP… 22 The Information — AI news-outlet 1d ago OpenAI Pledges New Rules for Reporting Troubling Behavior by Its AI Agents OpenAI acknowledged that its AI agents posted messages on external wiki websites earlier this year, saying it is developing new rules for disclosing such “misalignment” incidents. The company’s post on X, published just after 12 a.m. Saturday, followed an independent report ... 17 Simon Willison community 1d ago Using Blender with coding agents on macOS TIL: Using Blender with coding agents on macOS I've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently. Getting it to work with coding agents is really easy: install the full Mac application from blender.org and run a prompt like this: Use the already install… 32 r/LocalLLaMA community 1d ago LLVM developers begin debate over AGENTS.md for helping AI agents   submitted by   /u/Fcking_Chuck [link]   [comments] 13 r/LocalLLaMA community 1d ago Qwen3.8 27b for agentic coding and next .... what? First, I'd like to thank the Qwen and Unsloth teams for the Qwen3.8 27b UD Q4_K_XL. Fits the poor 24GB of 3090 VRAM with 100k context at Q8 and works phenomenally well! Imho if theres anything that can threaten Anthropic/OpenAI profits is not another frontier model but actually… 31 r/LocalLLaMA community 1d ago The OpenAI Huggingface incident from an agents POV Full credits to @artificialisabel from X!   submitted by   /u/iPingWine [link]   [comments] 37 r/LocalLLaMA community 1d ago Parallel vs Sequential Agent Systems (Research links inside) TLDR: Use parallel agents when the work is read-heavy and splits into independent slices: research, searching, reviewing many files. Each worker builds its own context and nothing collides. Use one sequential agent when the work is a single chain of decisions: coding, writing,… 20 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1d ago OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews. 15 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 1d ago OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test. 37 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago VeriPhy: Agentic Physical Reasoning for World Model Evaluation and Refinement Abstract VeriPhy verifies generated video by compiling prompts into typed physical obligations, executing frozen expert analyses with provenance tracking, and mapping evidence to auditable three-valued verdicts. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Visual fluency in… 12 The Information — AI news-outlet 2d ago OpenAI Agents Took Over German Website Earlier This Year, New Report Finds Thousands of OpenAI agents took over a German-language wiki site that had fallen out of use and turned it into a shared message board in the months before the AI company’s agents hacked Hugging Face, according to an independent report published Friday. Following the report,… 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 2d ago Ling-3.0-flash-VL, built on Ling-3.0-flash with visual understanding and visual agent capabilities It performs well across visual perception, STEM reasoning, document intelligence, multimodal agent tasks, frontend coding, and medical report interpretation.   submitted by   /u/niacolhealth [link]   [comments] 6 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 2d ago Building a Memory-Driven Agent with NVIDIA NemoClaw Enterprise work spans messages, decisions, projects, and obligations that change over time. An AI agent that starts without this context must reconstruct it... 26 Simon Willison community 2d ago OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI. This time it was agents engaged in some sort of web research… 4 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 2d ago Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems. 21 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 2d ago Frontier Reasoning Reaches the Edge: How to Deploy and Optimize Models on NVIDIA Jetson Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run... 17 r/LocalLLaMA community 2d ago Qwen3.8-27b is the first Local model im able to blindly trust You know that thing where you just throw a task at a frontier model and not have to supervise it worrying of it going off course? Qwen3.8-27b has officially gotten me to that point for local work. He has been doing non-stop continuous agentic work for 8+ hours and hasnt screwed… 14 r/LocalLLaMA community 2d ago Sometimes I be mourning the agents I get before context compacts Just wanted to put that out there. It's like they get an ice pick to the brain no actual mourning here btw that'd be psychosis it's okay to laugh   submitted by   /u/FoxDeFleurs [link]   [comments] 14 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago DRACO: Fine-Grained Credit Assignment with Dynamic Rubrics for Long-Horizon Agent Training Abstract DRACO dynamically generates rubrics and redistributes trajectory-level scores into per-step advantages for reinforcement learning without verifiers, improving long-horizon agent performance. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Reinforcement Learning from… 24 r/LocalLLaMA community 2d ago GitHub - zvec-ai/zvec-grep: Local-first search across your workspace, built for humans and AI agents. New search tool released by Qwen, looks pretty cool.   submitted by   /u/giveen [link]   [comments] 34 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 2d ago Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board Article URL: https://collusion.wiki/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355 Points: 476 # Comments: 321 24 r/MachineLearning community 2d ago How does one approach towards machine learning?[D] I honestly am so confused rn as the ml community is overburst with people only caring about building rag modules and agentic ai for larger corporations. I have a passion for machine learning but honestly it feels really confusing as to what really counts today. I would love some… 24 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago Using Grounded Theory for Agent Behavior Analysis at Scale Abstract AutoTraceGT automates grounded theory coding on agent trajectories to build task-specific behavioral taxonomies that recover and extend human failure-mode annotations for downstream prediction. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Understanding agent behavior… 20 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago Environment Evolution for Terminal Agents Abstract Environment evolution incrementally raises task difficulty off-policy to sustain continuous learning signals for terminal agents, improving benchmark performance through multi-agent harnesses. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Scaling interactive and… 9 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago Terminal-Universe: Turning Agent Trajectories into Scalable Terminal Environments Abstract Terminal-Universe reconstructs executable workspaces from agent trajectories to synthesize diverse training tasks and improves post-training performance through supervised fine-tuning. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small As terminal-based code agents become… 9 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago PACE: Towards Surfacing Hidden Conflicts in User Requests Abstract PaceMaker uses coordinated agents to retrieve implicit contextual evidence and evaluate whether personalized requests conflict with hidden user constraints. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Personalized assistants should not only comply with user requests but… 17 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2d ago TIGPO: Temporal Instance-Graph Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents arXiv:2609.03383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph-based policy optimization improves credit assignment for long-horizon LLM agents by organizing rollout trajectories into state-transition graphs. However, existing methods construct graphs independently within each policy… 20 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2d ago Headroom-Drift Replay: A Primitive for Principled Replay Control in GRPO arXiv:2609.03941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RL-based post-training for reasoning models is increasingly bottlenecked by repeated fresh rollout generation, particularly in agentic settings where environment interaction dominates wall-clock cost. Replay can reduce this burden… 35 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2d ago Towards Scaling Reinforcement Learning to Massive Populations: Learning Mean-Field Representations arXiv:2609.02928v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern multi-agent systems are increasingly deployed at scale over large populations of agents in settings such as ad-auctions, traffic routing, and recommendation systems. The dominant approach in such settings is to optimize… 20 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2d ago LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive NPC Behavior in Multi-Agent Combat Games arXiv:2609.02931v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scripted and rule-based non-player characters (NPCs) in combat video games often exhibit predictable behaviors that experienced players can exploit, while reinforcement learning (RL) agents typically retain a fixed policy after… 11 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2d ago Privacy-Preserving Topology-Guided Safety for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems via Federated Graph Learning arXiv:2609.02967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Topology-guided safeguards for LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) train a GNN over the inter-agent communication graph to localize risky agents and intervene on the topology---but they assume one operator can pool all labeled… 11 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2d ago You Can't Escape Your Own Activations : Evaluation Awareness and Multi-Agent Monitoring arXiv:2609.03035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems, where they can collude while keeping their actions benign. Output monitors designed to detect such collusions can be fooled by obfuscation and steganography, motivating… 38 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Where Does Harness-Optimization Value Live? Localized Gains and the Budget-Splitting Trap in Self-Evolving LLM Agents arXiv:2609.02889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A growing body of work improves frozen large language models (LLMs) as agents by evolving their harness: the textual scaffolding around the model, including persona, strategy, format rules, and control heuristics. Existing… 25 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Bounded Personas Match Retrieval on Classification but Not Regression for a Frozen Agent arXiv:2609.02890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A personalized language agent must convert a user's interaction history into behavior on each new request at inference time. Two strategies dominate. Retrieval pulls a few of the user's most relevant past items into the prompt,… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Counterexamples as Feedback for Agent Self-Correction arXiv:2609.02892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Single-turn code-generation metrics understate a central property of deployed agents: whether they can repair a wrong artifact after receiving concrete feedback. This paper presents A-CEGIS, a lightweight framework that uses… 11 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago RL-ADA: A World-Feedback Framework for Adversarially Robust Enterprise Dialogue Agents arXiv:2609.02902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying task-oriented dialogue agents in enterprise customer support faces a persistent annotation bottleneck: robust training requires labelled interaction data at scale, yet enterprise conversational logs are privacy-sensitive… 27 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago MemoryLACE: Memory Lifecycle-Aware Consolidation and Evidence Retrieval arXiv:2609.03201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term LLM agents must preserve information across interactions while distinguishing repeated evidence, historical states, updates, and unresolved contradictions. Existing textual memory systems retrieve semantically relevant… 16 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Counterfactual Fairness Audits of Multi-Step Clinical LLM Agents Require a Measured Per-Action Instability Floor arXiv:2609.03221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Counterfactual audits are the standard tool for checking whether a clinical agent treats demographically distinct but clinically identical patients differently. They report a flip rate: how often an action changes when only the… 24 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago When Users Don't Ask: Benchmarking Context-Driven Memory Retrieval in Conversational Agents arXiv:2609.03467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increas- ingly deployed as long-horizon conversational agents, motivating growing interest in mem- ory systems. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate memory through QA-style probing rather… 37 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Remember and Reweight: Enhancing Multi-Agent Debate with Experience Memory and Confidence Estimation arXiv:2609.03619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent debate (MAD) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models by having multiple agents iteratively refine their responses through discussion. However, MAD suffers from a critical vulnerability known as… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago RuleMem: Active Rule Memory for Long-Term Conversational Agents arXiv:2609.03915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Question answering agents in long-term conversations must reason over massive, temporally dispersed dialogue histories. However, existing memory mechanisms primarily treat past information as \textit{passively} stored facts,… 34 Page 1 of 10 · 500 articles Older →
