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Applied AI Research

Every edition breaks down a peer-reviewed paper into actionable strategy. No hype — just evidence from the world's leading labs.

Previous Editions

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92% Correct. Without Handing It the Answers.

AgenticRAG enables AI models to autonomously navigate enterprise documents through iterative tool use, improving retrieval accuracy 5.9× over single-shot methods while reducing token costs.

Microsoft

May 16, 20269 minRead
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Safe Alone, Dangerous Together: The AI Agent Blind Spot

A governance taxonomy organizes AI agent interventions into five categories—alignment, control, visibility, security, and societal integration—to manage risks as agents approach human-level task performance.

IAPS (Institute for AI Policy and Strategy)

May 16, 20269 minRead
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Every AI Agent Audit Your Teams Run Is Missing the Same Thing

ARC Framework governs agentic AI through a capability lens that maps 46 risks to 88 technical controls using structured implementation guidance.

GovTech Singapore, Singapore University of Technology and Design

May 10, 20269 minRead
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The Attack Your Voice Agent Cannot Be Trained Out Of

The first red-teaming framework designed not for AI models in isolation, but for voice agents as they are actually deployed

Fordham University, IBM Research

April 24, 20269 minRead
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The README That Makes AI Coding Agents 29% Faster

Adding AGENTS.md files to repositories reduces AI coding agent runtime by 29% and output tokens by 17% without changing task completion rates.

Singapore Management University, Heidelberg University, University of Bamberg, King's College London

April 24, 20269 minRead
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The AI Agent That Learns From Its Own Work

SAGE, a reinforcement learning framework from AWS and UW-Madison, trains AI agents to write and reuse programmatic skills across chains of related tasks, achieving 8.9% higher scenario completion than RL-without-skills baselines while using 59% fewer tokens.

University of Wisconsin–Madison; AWS Agentic AI (Amazon)

March 29, 202611 minRead
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77% Win Rate. This Is the RAG Architecture Behind It.

Atlassian's ADORE framework replaces single-pass RAG pipelines with a multi-agent, evidence-audited research loop that achieves a 77% win rate against ChatGPT Deep Research on business consulting tasks and outperforms all competitors on the DeepResearch Bench.

Atlassian

March 29, 20269 minRead
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Agent Skills Don't Compound. The Framework That Changes That.

AgentSkillOS shows that structured skill composition via tree-based retrieval and DAG orchestration dramatically outperforms flat skill provisioning, even when agents have access to identical tools.

Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

March 17, 20268 minRead
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Your Workflow Automation Was Never Designed to Think

Researchers propose a five-layer architectural framework for Agentic BPM Systems (A-BPMS) that combines process mining, AI reasoning, and autonomous orchestration to move enterprise workflows beyond fixed rules into fully self-managing, self-optimizing operations.

University of Tartu

March 17, 20269 minRead
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Your AI Vendor Has a Governance Problem

A Carnegie Mellon study reveals that Anthropic's Claude fails key transparency, bias, and accountability benchmarks under the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and EU AI Act, exposing significant governance gaps that enterprise buyers must audit before deployment.

Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Privacy Engineering

March 17, 202610 minRead