AI Papers - 2026-07-31

Today's papers: - WhisperRec: Latent Reasoning for Efficient Foundation Recommendation Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26621v2 - MultivationBench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Sequential Motivation Reasoning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26465v1 - See2Think: Do Multimodal Models Really Use Intermediate Visual States?: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26769v1 - Hearsay: Vision-Language Medical Diagnoses Without an Image: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26886v1 - Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27191v1 This podcast is from Colin Davis (colin-davis.com) using Claude & Elevenlabs.