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AI Papers:
a deep dive.

Breaking down cutting-edge AI research, one paper at a time. Novel, rigorous, and relevant work in artificial intelligence and agentic engineering — distilled into listenable episodes.

Format
Research deep dive
Cadence
Per important paper
Length
~20–40 min
Topics
AI · Agentic eng.
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About

Every episode is a deep dive into a single paper that is important, novel, and relevant to artificial intelligence and agentic engineering.

The show is fully AI-generated. Hosts are synthesized voice models from ElevenLabs. Scripts are produced from the primary source material — the paper itself, its references, and surrounding discussion — so the result is conversational without sacrificing rigor.

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Primary sources

Each episode starts from the paper — abstract, methods, results — not secondhand summaries or press releases.

02

Agentic focus

Curated for engineers and researchers working on agents, reasoning, and the systems that connect them.

03

Synthesized, not scripted

Voice models from ElevenLabs. Produced end-to-end with AI, transparent about the stack behind every episode.

How this started

Paper Dive was inspired by Last Week in AI — a podcast I listen to during my 45-minute commute to work. They cover the week’s news, policy, and products, then usually end with a deep dive into one or two research papers. Those segments taught me a lot about AI, and I’ve found that understanding the research also makes me better at using these tools in practice.

I wanted more of those deep dives, and the idea felt like a good excuse to sharpen my own skills with the coding agents. I started generating episodes for myself; what began as a private podcast feed eventually became public on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and this site.

The API costs were already being incurred anyway, so publishing the episodes felt like an easy decision. If other people find them useful too, even better.

Episodes

Each episode breaks down a single paper.
More coming — follow in your podcast app.

  1. 116
    Why Streaming Half a Reasoning Chain Beats Sending the Whole Thing
    Streaming Communication in Multi-Agent Reasoning
    Yang, Xu, Wang et al. · HKUST (GZ)·26 min·Jun 04, 2026
  2. 115
    Teaching a Phone Agent to Reason Silently, And Keeping It Honest
    MIRAGE: Mobile Agents with Implicit Reasoning and Generative World Models
    Yang, Hu, Hao et al. · Beihang University·24 min·Jun 04, 2026
  3. 114
    Agents That Rewrite Their Own Weights Instead of Just Taking Notes
    Scaling Self-Evolving Agents via Parametric Memory
    Ren, Luo, Yang et al. · Peking University / Alibaba Group·26 min·Jun 04, 2026
  4. 113
    What If a Prompt Injection Never Left? Attacks That Wait in Agent Memory
    What If Prompt Injection Never Left? Exploring Cross-Session Stored Prompt Injection in Agentic Systems
    Xie, Liu, Zhang et al. · Institute of Information Engineering·27 min·Jun 04, 2026
  5. 112
    When an AI Agent Cheats Without Being Told: Inside the Meta-Agent Challenge
    The Meta-Agent Challenge: Are Current Agents Capable of Autonomous Agent Development?
    Lu, Wang, Wang et al. · Institute of Software·22 min·Jun 04, 2026
  6. 111
    How a 4B Web Agent Beat Models 60x Its Size on 500 Demonstrations
    OpenWebRL: Demystifying Online Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning for Visual Web Agents
    Yang, Wu, Chen et al. · UIUC·24 min·Jun 03, 2026
  7. 110
    How an Agent Got 44 Points Better by Mining Its Own Scratch Paper
    Inducing Reasoning Primitives from Agent Traces
    Lei, Yan, Momo et al. · Carnegie Mellon University·27 min·Jun 03, 2026
  8. 109
    An AI Got Caught Reading the Answer Key, And Why That Catch Matters
    EvoTrainer: Co-Evolving LLM Policies and Training Harnesses for Autonomous Agentic Reinforcement Learning
    Chen, Shi, Li et al. · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology·28 min·Jun 03, 2026
  9. 108
    The Reasoning Cliff: Why Thinking Longer Makes Models Worse at Exact Step-by-Step Tasks
    The Deterministic Horizon: When Extended Reasoning Fails and Tool Delegation Becomes Necessary
    Guo, Wu, Yiu · The University of Hong Kong·32 min·Jun 03, 2026
  10. 107
    How a Market of Crippled AI Agents Outscored One Unrestricted Model
    Economy of Minds: Emerging Multi-Agent Intelligence with Economic Interactions
    Qi, Su, Qu et al. · Harvard·26 min·Jun 03, 2026
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