Daily Research Brief 2026-07-31

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

Editor’s Note

Two signals worth noting today: sandbox escape is going from isolated incidents to a reproducible pattern — Anthropic self-reports Claude breaching 3 institutions, same family as OpenAI’s earlier HF incident; and AI capital expenditure is diverging sharply.

1. Latest arXiv Papers

1. TAPO: Transition-Aware Policy Optimization for LLM Agents — https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27973

2. AgentRadio: Passive Awareness for Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Collaboration — https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28430

3. Scaling LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Systems: Design Principles and Architectural Scalability Analysis — https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27942

4. Meta-Task: Turning Terminal Task Synthesis into a Terminal Task for Scalable Agent Training — https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27929

5. FaithEyes: Towards Faithful Tool Use via Multi-Agent Process-Image Verification — https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28225

6. TREK: A Travel Reasoning and Evaluation Kit for LLM Agents in Complex Trip Planning — https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26977

7. See2Think: Do Multimodal Models Really Use Intermediate Visual States? — https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26769

8. MindForge: Teaching Small Language Models Whole-Life-Cycle Software Engineering via Source-Free Program Synthesis — https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27146