AI Papers - 2026-08-28

Today's papers: - VBVR-Pro: A Scalable and Verifiable Suite for Native Visual Reasoning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26105v1 - Skill Issue: Are Skills Language-Invariant in LLMs?: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25832v1 - Omni-Interactive Universal Embedder: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27044v1 - $R^3$: Training Robots to Reason in Natural Language via Reinforcement Learning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26053v1 - AgentJudgeBench: A Multi-Difficulty Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Judges on Agentic Tool-Calling: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26623v1 This podcast is from Colin Davis (colin-davis.com) using Claude & Elevenlabs.