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Agent Factory Recap: Can you do my shopping?

In episode #8 of The Agent Factory, Ivan Nardini and I are joined by Prateek Dudeja, product manager from the Agent Payment Protocol Team, to dive into one of the biggest hurdles for AI agents in eccomerce: trust, especially when…

How TELUS is powering growth and productivity with Google

Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Alyson Butler, Director of Team Member Experiences at TELUS, a communications technology company with more than 20 million customer connections. TELUS has integrated ChromeOS, Google Workspace, Chrome Enterprise Premium, and Cameyo to support its…

MDAR: A Multi-scene Dynamic Audio Reasoning Benchmark

arXiv:2509.22461v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ability to reason from audio, including speech, paralinguistic cues, environmental sounds, and music, is essential for AI agents to interact effectively in real-world scenarios. Existing benchmarks mainly focus on static or single-scene settings and…

Latent Veracity Inference for Identifying Errors in Stepwise Reasoning

arXiv:2505.11824v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has advanced the capabilities and transparency of language models (LMs); however, reasoning chains can contain inaccurate statements that reduce performance and trustworthiness. To address this, we propose to augment each reasoning step…

Dual Branch VideoMamba with Gated Class Token Fusion for Violence Detection

arXiv:2506.03162v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid proliferation of surveillance cameras has increased the demand for automated violence detection. While CNNs and Transformers have shown success in extracting spatio-temporal features, they struggle with long-term dependencies and computational efficiency. We propose…