Daily Research Brief 2026-05-15

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

Editor’s Note

Frontier AI access may soon be limited by economics; Microsoft’s MDASH ran 100+ agents in concert, beating Anthropic MCP; AI-generated fake vulnerability reports flooded Node.js; Anthropic raised $30B at a $900B+ valuation; GPT-5.5 hit 62% on complex autonomous coding.

1. Latest arXiv Papers

1. Articraft: An Agentic System for Scalable Article Generation — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15187

2. MemEye: A Visual-Centric Evaluation Framework for Agent Memory — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15128

3. Talk is (Not) Cheap: A Taxonomy and Benchmark Comparing Agent Verbal and Behavioral Capabilities — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15118

4. Self-Distilled Agentic Reinforcement Learning — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15155

5. Pelican-Unified 1.0: A Unified Embodied Intelligence Foundation Model — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15153

6. Learning Direct Control Policies with Flow Matching — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14832

7. Widening the Gap: Exploiting LLM Quantization Vulnerabilities — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15152

8. mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections for Transformers — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15153