AI Papers - 2026-08-26

Today's papers: - Gated Activation Steering for Reducing Sycophancy & Hallucination in Medical Question Answering: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23666v1 - MatReplace: A Reference-Free, Conditioning-Aligned Benchmark for Material Replacement in Interior Scenes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24107v1 - Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Harness: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23552v1 - Beyond Confidence: Test-Time Scaling for Multi-Turn Search Agents via Retrieval Grounding: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24024v1 - Serving Masked Diffusion LLMs: Characterization and Design Principles from Real Hardware: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23807v1 This podcast is from Colin Davis (colin-davis.com) using Claude & Elevenlabs.