Daily Research Brief 2026-04-22

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Covers the latest AI research, open source and industry moves, updated daily.

Editor’s Note

OpenAI teamed up with Infosys to bring AI tools to enterprises; AI is generating more potential drug candidates than ever; even the Pope’s warnings about AI were AI-generated; OpenAI beefed up ChatGPT’s image generation.

1. Latest arXiv Papers

1. HALO: Hybrid Auto-Encoded Locomotion with Learned Dynamics — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18887

2. Thrust Regulation Through Wing Linkage Modulation — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18900

3. Smiling Regulates Emotion During Traumatic Recall — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19019

4. AutoAWG: Adverse Weather Generation with Adaptive Augmentation — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18993

5. A Controlled Benchmark of Visual State-Space Models — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18721

6. VOLT: Volumetric Wide-Field Microscopy via 3D-Implicit Light-Sheet — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18807