August 2026 was the month world action models (WAMs) stopped being a slogan and turned into an engineering agenda. The shared template that emerged across the screened corpus is a video- or latent-dynamics backbone that predicts scene evolution together with an action expert…
Digests
August 2026's multimodal benchmark literature is unusually convergent. Rather than announcing new tasks, it rebuilds evaluation around the specific step where current models break: an unanswerable clip a model will not flag, a second image it cannot keep straight, a polygon it…
Digests
September 2026 moved video generation forward on seven fronts at once, and the three changes worth remembering are not about image quality. Agentic orchestration became an object of study rather than a wrapper: two systems now train the controller that composes requests, one…
Surveys
A looped (or recurrent-depth) transformer applies the same weight-tied block repeatedly to a token's hidden state, turning "depth" from a fixed property of the parameter count into a variable that can be spent at inference time.
Digests
September's agent literature is less about new capabilities than about instruments. The month's strongest contributions are audits of benchmark environments, ablations of the harness around the model, variance decompositions of leaderboards, and governance layers that refuse to…
Surveys
The capability of an agent increasingly depends not on its base model but on the harness built around it: instructions, context management, memory, tools and skills, control flow and orchestration, and the agent's own code.
Surveys
Computer-use agents — systems that operate graphical interfaces through screenshots, accessibility trees and keyboard-and-mouse actions — moved in roughly three years from scripted proofs of concept to trained models that complete a majority of single-application tasks on…
Surveys
Game production is being reorganised: from "humans write the code, humans make the assets, humans playtest" to "an agent proposes the engineering structure, calls engine tools, and some verifier decides whether the result passes".