Daily Research Brief 2026-05-14

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

Editor’s Note

Needle distilled Gemini tool-calling into a 26M-parameter model; the first AI-generated zero-day was found in the wild, bypassing 2FA; OpenAI poured $4B into a deployment company; DeepSeek’s ¥50B round neared close with Alibaba and Tencent each contributing ~¥10B.

1. Latest arXiv Papers

1. Human-Inspired Memory Architecture for LLM Agents — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08538

2. Good Agentic Friends Do Not Just Give Verbal Advice — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13839

3. Neural QAOA²: Differentiable Joint Graph Partitioning — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13072

4. Quantifying LLM Safety Degradation Under Repeated Adversarial Use — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12869

5. DreamLite: A 0.39B Parameter Lightweight Unified Model — https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28713

6. PV-VAE: Predictive Video Variational Autoencoder — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02134

7. TBA: Decoupling Reinforcement Learning Training from Inference — https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18929

8. Continuous-Time Distribution Matching for Few-Shot Learning — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06376