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AI Agent News: Tools, Workflows & Evaluation — Page 2

From coding assistants to collaborative systems: what agents can do, and where they fall short.

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An agent chooses actions and tools in pursuit of a goal; a workflow follows a more predefined path. Reliable deployment needs clear permissions, observable results and a way to stop or escalate when a step fails.

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Industry

Edge AI for Smart Cities: From Insight to Cognitive Action

This white paper explains how edge AI and physical AI help cities move beyond passive monitoring. It shows how urban infrastructure can sense, reason, and act on real-time conditions across public safety, mobility, and infrastructure management. What you will learn about: How the shift from smart cities to cognitive cities depends on infrastructure that reasons and acts, rather than infrastructure that only monitors.

AI safety

Catching split attacks across compactions in long-context coding agents

This work was conducted through the MARS V fellowship under the mentorship of Tyler Tracy from Redwood Research. TL;DR We present the LCM dataset: 30 long context (1.00-1.46M total tokens) matched honest / attack pairs of Claude Code Sonnet 5 sessions. Each transcript has four compactions. Attacks are decomposed into a setup and an execution, split up by multiple compactions.

AI safety

Reinforcement Learning is Probably Inconsistent with Ethics

"Reinforcement learning is evil." - Yoshua Bengio I agree with Bengio here, though I have an argument I haven't seen elsewhere. [1] A standard argument for reinforcement learning being dangerous goes like this: reinforcement learning requires you to specify a reward function; specifying a reward function which captures all of ethics is really hard; so we will specify a proxy of ethics instead; powerful optimizers will game any proxy objective;…

AI safety

How Researchers Lie to AIs

This is a two week sprint project done as part of the Redwood Research internship. Alessandro was the main IC, Alex supervised. Figure 1: The percentage of 292 public alignment evaluations between Dec 2022 and Oct 2026 (see Appendix) that contained a lie of each type. There are many contexts in which researchers lie to models, which can be useful both from a practical perspective [1] and a scientific one.

Research

AuditKIT: A Unified Evaluation Spine for Benchmarking, Judging, and Comparing Large Language Models and Agentic Systems

arXiv:2610.22511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating language models and agents requires combining benchmark accuracy, judge-based assessment, runtime performance, tool-use behavior, and retrieval quality. Differences in interfaces, metric semantics, and trace formats complicate these comparisons and can hide failures in agentic workflows.

Research

QD-Rec: Open-Ended Evolution of Recommendations via Quality-Diversity

arXiv:2610.23470v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-ended search combined with foundation models has produced advances such as faster algorithms, new results on open mathematical problems, and self-improving agents. We extend this paradigm to recommendation for decision-making, focusing on decisions where the set of possible choices is fixed but the reasons for choosing them are not.

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