Daily Research Brief 2026-05-29

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

Editor’s Note

Anthropic’s $65B Series H (valuation $965B) passed OpenAI; Robinhood launched Agentic Trading — AI agents get legal trading rights for the first time; Tsinghua’s PilotDeck open-sourced the first project-level agent OS; GitHub launched Agentic Workflows; the Mini Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack hit 170+ AI dev packages.

1. Latest arXiv Papers

1. Position: Retire the ‘Positive Backdoor’ Label — Secrets of Backdoor Attacks — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28597

2. Benchmarking AI for Low-Resource Contexts: Thinking Beyond Accuracy — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28508

3. Self-Prophetic Decoding to Unlock Visual Search in LVLMs — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28741

4. Negative Weight Drift in Neural Networks — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17659

5. Learning to Evaluate Intermediate Diffusion States for Reliable Generation — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19804

6. ETCHR: Editing To Clarify and Harness Reasoning in Multimodal AI — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23897

7. PEFT-Arena: Understanding Parameter-Efficient Finetuning Trade-offs

8. GENESIS: An Autonomous Agent Framework for 6G R&D

9. BRANE: Dynamic Configuration Optimization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

10. Disentangling Adversarial Prompts: A Semantic-Graph Approach — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27823