Autonomous Agents

Opening — Why this matters now Agentic AI is having its moment. Not the glossy demo videos, but the real, sweating-in-the-server-room kind of deployment—the kind that breaks when someone adds a second tool, or when an LLM hallucinates a file path, or when a Kubernetes pod decides it’s had enough of life. Enterprises want automation, not surprises. Yet most “agent” frameworks behave like clever interns: enthusiastic, creative, and catastrophically unreliable without structure. ...

Opening — Why this matters now Foundation agents have finally escaped the lab. They browse the web, query APIs, plan multi-step workflows, and increasingly intervene in high‑stakes business operations. Yet for all the hype, one stubborn truth remains: most benchmarks still measure agent performance in toy universes—mazes, puzzles, synthetic tasks. Real businesses, unfortunately, do not operate in puzzles. ...

Opening — Why This Matters Now AI systems are drifting away from solitary workflows. Agents are multiplying—trading, negotiating, planning, debugging, persuading. And while foundation models now perform impressively as individual problem-solvers, the industry keeps assuming that once a model is “smart enough,” multi-agent intelligence will just sort of… happen. It won’t. And a new study makes that painfully clear. 【2512.08743v1.pdf†file】 ...

Why This Matters Now LoRA adapters have quietly become the unsung workhorses of the generative-image community. What began as small stylistic nudges has metastasized into a sprawling, unstructured bazaar of tens of thousands of adapters—with inconsistent labeling, questionable metadata, and wildly unpredictable behavior. Browsing CivitAI in 2025 often feels like shopping in a night market with no signs: vibrant, lively, but utterly directionless. ...

Opening — Why this matters now We are living through an awkward adolescence in enterprise AI. Systems are getting smarter, hungrier, and more autonomous—but the knowledge bases we feed them remain fragile, tangled, and full of implicit assumptions. The industry’s polite term for this is ontology drift. The less polite term is a future lawsuit. ...

Opening — Why this matters now Multimodal LLMs promised a unified cognitive layer — one model that could see, read, and reason without switching mental gears. In reality, the industry has quietly tolerated a lingering flaw: the same question, when shown as text or rendered as an image, often yields different answers. As enterprises push MLLMs into document-heavy workflows, compliance systems, and vision-driven automation, this inconsistency becomes more than a research curiosity — it becomes operational risk. ...

Opening — Why this matters now As 6G visions drift from conference slides into physical infrastructure, wireless networks are confronting their oldest enemy: geometry. Coverage gaps creep into city canyons, spectral efficiency demands tighten, and user distribution becomes ever more three‑dimensional. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) promised a controllable propagation environment—until STAR‑RIS arrived and said, politely, “why reflect when you can also transmit?” Aerial deployments on UAVs add yet another degree of freedom, raising a simple but critical question: which architecture actually works better when you’re no longer confined to the ground? 【fileciteturn0file0} ...

Why This Matters Now Autonomous agents are getting bolder—planning, exploring, and occasionally burning compute like an overconfident intern with the company card. The uncomfortable truth is that most agents still lack a principled way to decide a deceptively simple question: Should I even attempt this task? The paper The Agent Capability Problem introduces a rare thing in AI research today: a calm, quantitative framework that estimates solvability before an agent wastes resources. In an industry that still celebrates agents “trying really hard,” this shift toward predicting futility is overdue. ...

Why This Matters Now Causality is having a moment. As enterprises quietly replace dashboards and BI teams with chat interfaces, they’re discovering an uncomfortable truth: LLMs are great at telling stories, but terrible at telling you which story is structurally true. Businesses want causal insight — not anecdotes — yet LLMs hand us fragments, contradictions, and vibes. ...

Opening — Why this matters now Reinforcement learning for large language models has graduated from esoteric research to the backbone of every reasoning-capable system—from OpenAI’s O1 to DeepSeek’s R1. And yet, for all the ceremony around “RL-fine-tuning,” many teams still treat PPO, GRPO, and DAPO as mysterious levers: vaguely understood, occasionally worshipped, and frequently misused. ...