AI Papers - 2026-07-09

Today's papers: - Ad Headline Generation using Self-Critical Masked Language Model: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06818v1 - SPEAR: A Simulator for Photorealistic Embodied AI Research: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06701v1 - TopoBrick: Agentic Topology Sampling of Exogenous Variables for Zero-Shot Building IoT Forecasting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06349v1 - Search, Fail, Recover: A Training Framework for Correction-Aware Reasoning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07492v1 - Beyond Static Evaluation: Building Simulation Environments for Scalable Agentic Reinforcement Learning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05773v1 This podcast is from Colin Davis (colin-davis.com) using Claude & Elevenlabs.