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arXiv cs.AIPaper14h ago

RoboArchitect: Automating the Design of Robotic Agents with Persistent Memory

This reframes robot policy deployment: instead of finetuning, you keep the policy frozen and let a code-writing model design the harness around it. The results are compelling: 9.7% to 43.3% on novel scenes, 12.7% to 40.2% on novel tasks. It's a pragmatic shift that lets general-purpose policies work out-of-box. For roboticists and embodied-AI teams, this is a proof of concept that harness design is learnable; the next step is whether it generalizes to your hardware without extensive rollout data.

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OpenAI NewsArticle19d ago

SentinelOne cuts malware analysis from weeks to hours

Malware analysis has been a lucrative service business because it's slow and labor-intensive. Automating weeks to hours is a real capability shift that increases analyst throughput and reduces dwell time on unknown threats. This is less about security innovation and more about labor replacement in a specific workflow. If you're in threat intelligence or working with SentinelOne, upgrade your playbook.

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arXiv cs.CLPaper20d ago

The Last Remote Sensing Model Built by Humans? Casting Any Earth Observation Task as Recursive Self-Improvement

This is a concrete demonstration of agents replacing human model builders in a real domain. The shift from task-specific expertise to verifiable harnesses is significant: it means EO model development can scale without domain specialists. For builders: if you're working in remote sensing or similar domains with clear verification signals, this suggests you should be writing harnesses, not training loops. The label efficiency is also notable for cost-sensitive applications.

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