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AWS says an expanded Policy Authoring feature can convert written rules into Dogwood policies that restrict agent actions over time, enforce prerequisites and limits, inspect free-form text with Bedrock Guardrails, and constrain tool inputs.
Microsoft Research says Skala 1.1 improves accuracy over its predecessor while remaining near the computational cost of semi-local density-functional methods, and is now available in CP2K with integrations planned for other major chemistry packages.
An arXiv preprint reports that code agents can perform differently on semantically equivalent codebases, with effects varying by model, agent framework and benchmark.
This study presents an enhanced model combining Fuzzy Logic with the IEEE Key Gas Method (FL-KGM) that introduces refined membership functions, optimized fuzzy rule sets, and a novel separation of CO and CO2 to eliminate diagnostic inconsistencies.
An arXiv study evaluates looped and conventional language models on three tool-calling benchmarks, reporting stronger results on workflows that require multiple dependent API calls and a potentially more efficient adaptive-computation approach.
A new arXiv paper proposes a three-agent code-review protocol in which a reviewer evaluates an agent’s code and a critic audits that review before edits are made. The authors report improved benchmark results over tested baselines, while also identifying false consensus as a failure mode.
An arXiv preprint compares zero-shot and parameter-efficient fine-tuning for hate-speech detection in Roman Urdu. The authors report that LoRA adaptation raised F1 performance from 0.56 to above 0.93 on a corpus containing more than 72,000 annotated comments.
An arXiv paper introduces FraudBench, a benchmark for testing whether tool-using banking agents can detect fraud that unfolds across conversations. In a preliminary single-trial evaluation, four agents scored 49% to 65% on attack security.
A study of more than 2,000 language-model training runs says scarce target data can be repeated 15–20 times in mixtures, with the best rate varying by scale and compute.
Apple researchers describe LINK, a pretraining intervention that replaces selected English words with word-level translations from a target language. The paper reports improvements across eight languages and five model sizes, including up to a twofold speedup in reaching equivalent downstream performance.
A position paper reports tacit collusion by DeepSeek-R1 agents in a simulated Bertrand pricing market, even after human prompts against collusion. It argues that observed-behavior certification should precede deployment of reasoning agents in economic markets; the evidence and safeguards remain preliminary.
A systematic review surveys how large language models are being studied for mental-health analysis, risk assessment, therapy support and multimodal monitoring, while stressing unresolved ethical and regulatory challenges.
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