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LLM Agents

Definition

LLM agents are agents whose decision-making core is a large language model: it reads the situation, picks the next tool call, writes the next message, decides when it’s done. Almost every interesting AI agent in 2026 is an LLM agent in this sense.

Episodes covering this

238
How a Cheap Model Reads the Flagship's Secret Reasoning Aloud
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
Panfilov, Schmotz, Shumailov et al. · MATS Research·19 min·Aug 11, 2026
237
The Model Built a Perfect Map of the Puzzle, Then Lost It
Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking
Pereira, Zuidema · Artificial Intelligence Program·19 min·Aug 10, 2026
208
The Blank Space in Your AI Approval Box That Isn't Empty
Unicode TAG-Block Concealment of Tool-Metadata Payloads in the Model Context Protocol: An Approval-View Fidelity Gap Across Three Independent Server Implementations
Rashidi · Department of Computer Science·15 min·Jul 08, 2026
187
An 8-Billion Agent That Beats Models 80 Times Its Size By Looking Things Up
An AI agent for treatment reasoning over a biomedical tool universe
Gao, Noori, Zhu et al. · Department of Biomedical Informatics·19 min·Jun 30, 2026
104
How Making a Research Agent Smarter Quietly Makes It Leak Your Secrets
MosaicLeaks:Privacy Risks in Querying-in-the-Open for Deep Research Agents
Gurung, Gella, Drouin et al. · University of Edinburgh·25 min·Jun 01, 2026
028
Teaching a Model to Hire Copies of Itself: Recursive Agent Optimization
Recursive Agent Optimization
Gandhi, Chakraborty, Wang et al. · Carnegie Mellon University·23 min·May 08, 2026
021
Ten Thousand Examples Beat the Full Industrial Pipeline for Search Agents
OpenSeeker-v2: Pushing the Limits of Search Agents with Informative and High-Difficulty Trajectories
Du, Ye, Tang et al. · Shanghai Jiao Tong University·14 min·May 06, 2026

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