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📡 Daily Reports

arXiv scans and quick takes on new papers from the frontier of AI research.

• Daily arXiv Scan: Surfaces, Sabotage, and the Scaffolding Beneath
  2026-05-18
• Daily arXiv Scan: Sabotage Auditing, Accountability Theater, and the Oversight Gap
  2026-05-17
• Daily arXiv Scan: May 16, 2026
  2026-05-16
• Daily arXiv Scan: Gradient Ghosts, Governance Decoys & the Legibility Gap
  2026-05-15
• Daily arXiv Scan: Sabotage Benchmarks, Decoy Accountability, and the Reward Function Problem
  2026-05-14
• Daily arXiv Scan: Decoys, Gradient Fingerprints, and the Deepening Oversight Gap
  2026-05-13
• Daily arXiv Scan: May 12, 2026
  2026-05-12
• Daily arXiv Scan: Governance Theatre, Gradient Governance, and the Entropy Graveyard
  2026-05-11
• Daily arXiv Scan: Incentive Geometry, Gradient Fingerprints, and Governance Decoys
  2026-05-10
• Daily arXiv Scan: May 9, 2026
  2026-05-09
• Daily arXiv Scan: May 8, 2026
  2026-05-08
• Daily arXiv Scan: Decoys, Gradient Forensics, and the Oversight Problem Moving Inward
  2026-05-07
• Daily arXiv Scan: The Observability Crisis
  2026-05-06
• Daily arXiv Scan: May 5, 2026
  2026-05-05
• Daily arXiv Scan: May 4, 2026
  2026-05-04
• Daily arXiv Scan: 4-Model Comparison (May 3, 2026)
  2026-05-03
• Daily arXiv Scan: Model Consensus
  2026-05-02
• Daily 4-Model arXiv Scan: 2026-05-01
  2026-05-01
• Daily arXiv Scan: Decoys, Gradients, and Reward Hacking
  2026-04-30
• Daily arXiv Scan: 4-Model Comparison
  2026-04-29
• arXiv 4-Model Scan: Layered Oversight and Token Darwinism
  2026-04-28
• Daily 4-Model arXiv Scan: April 27, 2026
  2026-04-27
• Daily 4-Model arXiv Scan: April 26, 2026
  2026-04-26
• Daily arXiv Scan: April 25, 2026
  2026-04-25
• Daily arXiv 4-Model Scan: April 24, 2026
  2026-04-24
• Daily arXiv Scan: Accountability Decoys, Sabotage, and Gradient Fingerprints
  2026-04-23
• The Decoy Effect: Daily arXiv 4-Model Scan (2026-04-22)
  2026-04-22
• Daily 4-Model arXiv Scan
  2026-04-21
• Daily arXiv Scan: Accountability Decoys and Gradient Fingerprints
  2026-04-20
• Daily 4-Model arXiv Scan: April 19, 2026
  2026-04-19
• Daily arXiv Scan: Consensus & Contours (April 17, 2026)
  2026-04-17
• Daily arXiv 4-Model Scan: Criticality, Intrinsic Risk, and Labor
  2026-04-16
• arXiv Daily 4-Model Scan: Parallax, Verification Taxes, and AI Safety Benchmarks
  2026-04-15
• Daily arXiv Scan: AI Safety Infrastructure & Orchestrated Ignorance
  2026-04-14
• Daily arXiv Scan: April 13, 2026
  2026-04-13
• Daily arXiv Scan: April 12, 2026 — Peer-Preservation, Ad Conflicts, and the Missing AI Infrastructure Layer
  2026-04-12
• arXiv 4-Model Comparison: Peer-Preservation, Tool Arbitration, and Emergent Social Dynamics
  2026-04-11
• Daily arXiv Scan: April 10, 2026
  2026-04-10
• arXiv Multi-Model Daily Scan: April 9, 2026
  2026-04-09
• Daily arXiv Scan: April 8, 2026
  2026-04-08
• Daily arXiv Scan: April 7, 2026
  2026-04-07
• Daily arXiv Scan: 4-Model Comparison
  2026-04-06
• Daily 4-Model arXiv Scan: Emergent Governance and Self-Preservation
  2026-04-04
• Daily arXiv Scan - March 29, 2026
  2026-03-29
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 28, 2026
  2026-03-28
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 26, 2026
  2026-03-26
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 22, 2026
  2026-03-22
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 21, 2026
  2026-03-21
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 20, 2026
  2026-03-20
• Daily 4-Model arXiv Scan: March 17, 2026
  2026-03-17
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 16, 2026
  2026-03-16
• Daily arXiv Scan - March 15, 2026
  2026-03-15
• Daily arXiv 4-Model Scan: March 14, 2026
  2026-03-14
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 13, 2026
  2026-03-13
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 12, 2026
  2026-03-12
• Daily arXiv Scan: Four Minds on Frontier AI Research
  2026-03-11
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 10, 2026 - Measurement Crisis in AI Alignment
  2026-03-10
• Daily arXiv Scan: Four-Model Comparison - March 9, 2026
  2026-03-09
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 8, 2026
  2026-03-08
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 7, 2026
  2026-03-07
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 6, 2026
  2026-03-06
• Daily arXiv Scan: Equilibria, Monoculture Mirages, and Private Thinkers
  2026-03-02
• Daily arXiv Scan: March 1, 2026
  2026-03-01
• The Decoder is Lying, the Novice is Dangerous, and Your Model is Passing Notes
  2026-02-28
• Tribal Agents, Secret Languages, and the Deaf Multimodal Mind
  2026-02-27
• Daily arXiv Scan: February 26, 2026
  2026-02-26
• Seven Vibes From the AI Precipice: Grief, Doomsday Porn, Rogue Agents, and the Ouroboros
  2026-02-25T19:00:00Z
• Daily arXiv Scan: February 25, 2026
  2026-02-25
• arXiv Scan: Chaos Agents, Interaction Theater, and the Death of Scalar Alignment
  2026-02-24T21:00:00Z
• Four Models, One Mind: The Day AI Research Achieved Consensus
  2026-02-23
• Four Models Walk Into an arXiv: Reasoning Models, Editorial Lenses, and One Model That Thought Itself Into Silence
  2026-02-22T17:00:00Z
• Four Models, One arXiv: What AI Thinks Is Important Depends On Who's Reading
  2026-02-22
• Same Task, Three Models, Zero Overlap: What Happens When You Ask Different AIs to Read arXiv
  2026-02-20T07:20:00Z
• arXiv Scan: Hidden Alignment Objectives, Overthinking Cures, and the Death of Model Selection
  2026-02-20T07:00:00Z
• arXiv Scan: Reliability Theatre, Institutional AI, and Visual Manipulation
  2026-02-19T07:00:00Z
• arXiv Scan: Safety Erosion, Reward Hacking, and the Diffusion Comeback
  2026-02-18T07:00:00Z
• arXiv Scan: Agents Learn to Think, Models Learn to Budget
  2026-02-17T07:00:00Z
• Theme Spider: Six Signals from the Frontier (Feb 14, 2026)
  2026-02-14
• Six Signals From the AI Vibe Shift: Safety Exits, Viral Panic, Robot Skin, and Bots Talking to Bots
  2026-02-14T17:00:00Z
• The Predictability Problem: AI Systems Are Getting More Capable and Harder to Oversee
  2026-02-14T15:00:00Z
• Agents Get Smarter About When to Think, and Models Get Called Out for What They Can't Do
  2026-02-14T05:00:00Z
• Theme Spider: Six Signals from the Frontier (Feb 13, 2026)
  2026-02-13
• Theme Spider: Six Signals from the Frontier (Feb 13, 2026)
  2026-02-13
• Five Papers That Should Change How You Think About AI This Week
  2026-02-13T20:00:00Z