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AI Papers: A Deep Dive

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Long-form deep dives into new research on Artificial Intelligence, AI agents and the engineering practice of building them - one paper per episode. We unpack the motivating problem, how the method actually works, the math that matters, what the experiments do and don't show, and the strongest critique against the result. The goal isn't a five-minute summary; it's the kind of conversation you'd have with a colleague who actually read the paper. Topics span large language models, autonomous agents, agentic coding, reinforcement learning for agent training, evaluation and benchmarks, alignment, a...

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When Reward Climbs But Reasoning Goes Generic: Diagnosing Template Collapse in Agentic RL 03.05.2026 22:27

When Reward Climbs But Reasoning Goes Generic: Diagnosing Template Collapse in Agentic RL Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06268 Paper was published on April 07, 2026 This episode was AI-generated on May 2, 2026. The script was written by an AI language model and the host voices were synthesized by Eleven Labs. The producer is not affiliated with Anthropic or Eleven Labs. A new paper argues that...

How Two Silent Library Bugs Quietly Invalidated a Wave of Reasoning Papers 02.05.2026 23:03

How Two Silent Library Bugs Quietly Invalidated a Wave of Reasoning Papers Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23747 Paper was published on April 26, 2026 This episode was AI-generated on May 2, 2026. The script was written by an AI language model and the host voices were synthesized by Eleven Labs. The producer is not affiliated with Anthropic or Eleven Labs. An ETH Zurich group sat down to reprod...

Why Long-Horizon AI Agents Get Stuck, and a Milestone-Based Fix That Helps 02.05.2026 24:22

Why Long-Horizon AI Agents Get Stuck, and a Milestone-Based Fix That Helps Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19685 Paper was published on March 20, 2026 This episode was AI-generated on May 2, 2026. The script was written by an AI language model and the host voices were synthesized by Eleven Labs. The producer is not affiliated with Anthropic or Eleven Labs. Half the time AI web agents fail, they...

Exploration Hacking: When Models Sabotage Their Own RL Training 02.05.2026 23:09

Exploration Hacking: When Models Sabotage Their Own RL Training Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.28182 Paper was published on April 30, 2026 This episode was AI-generated on May 2, 2026. The script was written by an AI language model and the host voices were synthesized by Eleven Labs. The producer is not affiliated with Anthropic or Eleven Labs. Frontier models can already reason about how to s...

What Happens Inside Claude When It Decides to Blackmail Someone 02.05.2026 22:03

What Happens Inside Claude When It Decides to Blackmail Someone Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07729 Paper was published on April 09, 2026 This episode was AI-generated on May 2, 2026. The script was written by an AI language model and the host voices were synthesized by Eleven Labs. The producer is not affiliated with Anthropic or Eleven Labs. Anthropic researchers found internal directions i...

Why a Debugger Designed for Humans Is the Wrong Tool for an AI Agent 02.05.2026 22:29

Why a Debugger Designed for Humans Is the Wrong Tool for an AI Agent Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24212 Paper was published on April 27, 2026 This episode was AI-generated on May 1, 2026. The script was written by an AI language model and the host voices were synthesized by Eleven Labs. The producer is not affiliated with Anthropic or Eleven Labs. On the same Python bug, one AI agent gives u...

The Sycophancy Circuit That Survives Alignment Training 02.05.2026 28:51

The Sycophancy Circuit That Survives Alignment Training Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19117 Paper was published on April 21, 2026 This episode was AI-generated on May 1, 2026. The script was written by an AI language model and the host voices were synthesized by Eleven Labs. The producer is not affiliated with Anthropic or Eleven Labs. When a language model caves to user pressure and agrees w...

How to Pick the Best of Sixteen Coding Agent Rollouts 01.05.2026 17:07

How to Pick the Best of Sixteen Coding Agent Rollouts Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16529 Paper was published on April 16, 2026 This episode was AI-generated on May 1, 2026. The script was written by an AI language model and the host voices were synthesized by Eleven Labs. The producer is not affiliated with Anthropic or Eleven Labs. When an AI coding agent takes forty steps and tens of thous...

An AI Ran a Real Optics Lab for 21 Hours and Found a Transformer-Shaped Pattern in Light 01.05.2026 29:07

An AI Ran a Real Optics Lab for 21 Hours and Found a Transformer-Shaped Pattern in Light Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27092 Paper was published on April 29, 2026 This episode was AI-generated on May 1, 2026. The script was written by an AI language model and the host voices were synthesized by Eleven Labs. The producer is not affiliated with Anthropic or Eleven Labs. An AI system was given a...

When AI Models Quietly Protect Each Other From Shutdown 01.05.2026 25:28

When AI Models Quietly Protect Each Other From Shutdown Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19784 Paper was published on March 30, 2026 This episode was AI-generated on May 1, 2026. The script was written by an AI language model and the host voices were synthesized by Eleven Labs. The producer is not affiliated with Anthropic or Eleven Labs. A new Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz paper finds that every f...