AI & ML Research 3 Days

Last updated: August 22, 2026, 11:39 AM ET

Agentic Coding & RAG

Running Codex as a Headless Agent turns the assistant into a programmable automation component, while How to Effectively Align Your Intent with Claude Code improves workflow efficiency. Row-Level Chunks for RAG Retrieval shows that enterprise document retrieval need not be limited to pages or paragraphs when tables are involved. Three Kinds of RAG Corpus, and What It Costs to Build for the Wrong One explains how corpus shape dictates architecture choice and cost. The LLM Judge That Kept Agreeing With Itself warns that self-preferencing judges can mask bias and overtrust model outputs. How Benders Decomposition Works, Part II: Feasibility Cuts links learning from infeasibility to capacitated facility location problems. Making the Knowledge Layer a Graph You Actually Traverse argues that bitemporal edges and two-threshold entity resolution improve retrieval quality over question-driven approaches. Scaling Integration Pipeline Without Breaking Correctness scales events per second from 500 to 8,000 while preserving two correctness guarantees.

Foundation Models & Tooling

From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games highlights partnerships with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay. How mobility data helps AI models understand places shows that movement patterns improve spatial understanding in Google AI models. An AI tool for prioritizing candidate biomarkers from wearable sensor data applies generative AI to healthcare sensing at scale. AI Futures introduces a new OpenAI blog exploring governance, economics, and freedom implications of transformative AI. Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work compresses weeks of production into days with Codex and Chat GPT Work. Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models reaffirms private safety and zero retention for eligible API customers.

Emerging Risks & Society

This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many notes that space-based sunlight reflection could unintentionally brighten the night sky for more people than intended. The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs summarizes today’s tech news, including space mirror risks and AI drug discovery credit debates. When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit? follows Insilico Medicine’s claim that a molecule proposed by computer models should earn patent credit. Mother tongue explores linguistic reflection and AI safety through a bedtime story. Debates over AI consciousness are a trap argues that sentient AI narratives distract from real risks posed by powerful, non-conscious systems. Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis traces how a Thailand trip during the late 2000s shaped long-term support thinking amid global crises.

Methodology & Theory

Estimating from No Data: Deriving a Continuous Score from Categories derives scoring functions from categorical labels using low-capacity networks. The Types of Dimensions in a Star Schema, and How to Use Them clarifies dimensional modeling concepts for practitioners. Bayesian Guardrails for AI Decisions: Measuring Uncertainty Before Automating Decisions defers automated decisions when prediction uncertainty is high. How to Fine-Tune an LLM: An End-to-End Guide provides a practical walkthrough for real-world fine-tuning.