# state ai (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover state ai. Page: Feed: --- ## [Hierarchical Planning for Embodied Agents, Test-Driven Code Generation, and Memory-Efficient Diffusion Models](https://stateai.substack.com/p/hierarchical-planning-for-embodied) _2026-08-19 · State of AI · State of AI_ 15 papers on smarter robots, cheaper diffusion, and the compute costs nobody was counting ## [The AI Ethics Brief #197: Terms Set Upstream](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-197-terms-set) _2026-08-18 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ Enterprises are discovering their AI provider is also a competitor. Chinese users discovered their companions were never theirs. ## [A Breakthrough in Cost, Multi-Agent Reasoning Under Uncertainty, and Hallucination Mitigation Through Nested Memory](https://stateai.substack.com/p/a-breakthrough-in-cost-multi-agent) _2026-08-13 · State of AI · State of AI_ Welcome to today’s edition of State of AI 👋 And a warm welcome to our 26 new subscribers since last edition! ## [Metis: LLM Memory Without the Cumbersome Retrieval Stack](https://stateai.substack.com/p/metis-llm-memory-without-the-cumbersome) _2026-08-10 · State of AI · State of AI_ What happens when memory lives in the weights instead of a vector DB ## [Graph-Based Agentic AI, Adaptive Speculative Decoding, and Physics-Based Digital Twins](https://stateai.substack.com/p/graph-based-agentic-ai-adaptive-speculative) _2026-08-06 · State of AI · State of AI_ This edition showcases a fascinating convergence of three major trends reshaping AI systems: the infrastructure and governance challenges of building reliable, auditable agentic workflows; the practical engineering required to make inference faster and more cost-efficient at scale; ## [The AI Ethics Brief #196: No One Was Required to Count](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-196-no-one-was) _2026-08-04 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ Anthropic destroyed books the law had no reason to tally. OpenAI ran an evaluation no one was required to contain. ## [The AI Ethics Brief #195: When the Rules Arrive Late](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-195-when-the) _2026-07-21 · The AI Ethics Brief_ AI's costs are landing in real places, and the people absorbing them are writing the rules after the fact, in council chambers and courtrooms. ## [Gradient Bottlenecks, Token Learning Dynamics, and Agentic Self-Evolution: Understanding LLM Training and Deployment](https://stateai.substack.com/p/gradient-bottlenecks-token-learning) _2026-07-13 · State of AI · State of AI_ Welcome to today‘s edition of State of AI 👋 ## [The AI Ethics Brief #194: Who Builds, Who Depends, Who Decides](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-194-who-builds) _2026-07-07 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ Three new reports show how AI power is concentrating, and why participation has to include the right to refuse. ## [Recursive Evidence Replay for Long-Context Reasoning, Multi-Turn Red Teaming for Code Security, and Neuron-Aware LLM Optimization](https://stateai.substack.com/p/recursive-evidence-replay-for-long) _2026-07-06 · State of AI · State of AI_ Welcome to today‘s edition of State of AI 👋 ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LIjSeN2vVv2j) _2026-07-06 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Benchmark Saturation, Self-Evolving Agents, and Trillion-Parameter Performance at 35B Scale](https://stateai.substack.com/p/benchmark-saturation-self-evolving) _2026-06-30 · State of AI · State of AI_ Welcome to today‘s edition of State of AI 👋 ## [Diffusion Models Meet Reasoning: Learning to Schedule, Search, and Synthesize](https://stateai.substack.com/p/diffusion-models-meet-reasoning-learning) _2026-06-23 · State of AI · State of AI_ This week brings advances in how we train and optimize AI systems across reasoning, robotics, and multimodal domains. We‘re seeing a shift toward learning when and how to use compute primitives, from scheduling token generation in diffusion models to adaptively invoking code in vision-language systems. ## [The AI Ethics Brief #193: ACM FAccT Comes to Montreal](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-193-acm-facct) _2026-06-23 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ FAccT lands in Montreal and the Vatican enters the AI debate. Both circle the same question: who holds power over AI, and who can refuse it? ## [Audio Reasoning, Hallucination Mitigation, and Efficient Inference: From Chain-of-Thought Speech Models to INT8 Diffusion Transformers](https://stateai.substack.com/p/audio-reasoning-hallucination-mitigation) _2026-06-15 · State of AI · State of AI_ Welcome to today’s edition of State of AI 👋 ## [The AI Ethics Brief #192: Canada Has a National AI Strategy. The Hard Questions Come Next.](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-192-canada-has) _2026-06-09 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ On Adoption, Sovereignty, and the Questions the Strategy Leaves for Later. ## [Hyperbolic Embeddings, Sparse Attention Kernels, and Diffusion-Based Retrieval: Three Breakthroughs in Scaling AI Systems](https://stateai.substack.com/p/hyperbolic-embeddings-sparse-attention) _2026-06-08 · State of AI · State of AI_ Welcome to today’s edition of State of AI 👋 This week brings a fascinating convergence: researchers are fundamentally rethinking how we represent knowledge in retrieval systems (moving from Euclidean to hyperbolic geometry), how we optimize inference efficiency (through programmable sparse attention and cross-layer routing), and how we augment language models with dynamic retrieval (leveraging… ## [The AI Ethics Brief #191: The Terms of the Bargain](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-191-the-terms) _2026-05-26 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ What we give up, who gets to refuse, and the road to SAIER Volume 8 (2026). ## [The AI Ethics Brief #190: The Data We Leave Behind](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-190-the-data) _2026-05-12 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn't exist. ## [The AI Ethics Brief #189: The Futures We Make Room For](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-189-the-futures) _2026-04-28 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ On participatory tech futures, contested language, and what comes next for AI ethics. ## [The AI Ethics Brief #188: The Names We Give Things](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-188-the-names) _2026-04-14 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ On what we opt into, the language we use, and the distance between what things are called and what they actually do. ## [AI QA That Opens Fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qhjEy4SYLzFh) _2026-04-14 · **Sponsored**_ Runs browser QA, files issues with repro evidence, and opens fix PRs. ## [The AI Ethics Brief #187: The Myth of Inevitability](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-187-the-myth) _2026-03-31 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ On manufactured inevitability and the surveillance infrastructure being built in plain sight. ## [The AI Ethics Brief #186: Sovereign by Design. Accountable by Whose Standard?](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-186-sovereign) _2026-03-17 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ Canada's sovereignty moment, Anthropic's values test, and the accountability frameworks we still need to build. ## [The AI Ethics Brief #185: When AI Goes to War](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-185-when-ai-goes) _2026-03-03 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ Verification collapse, procurement politics, and the governance gap widening beneath both. ## [The AI Ethics Brief #184: What Deserves Your Attention](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-184-what-deserves) _2026-02-17 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ On critical ignoring, Claude's constitution, and why attention is the scarcest resource in AI. ## [The AI Ethics Brief #183: Blurred Lines](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-183-blurred-lines) _2026-02-03 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ From health data to root permissions, AI is redrawing the boundaries of access. ## [The AI Ethics Brief #182: When Guardrails Fracture](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-182-when-guardrails) _2026-01-20 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ Why 2026 marks the end of "business as usual" for AI ethics. ## [The AI Ethics Brief #181: We're Stronger Together: Collective Action & AI Ethics](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-181-were-stronger) _2026-01-06 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ Happy New Year! We kick off our first Brief of 2026 with our State of AI Ethics Report Part V: Collective Action, and mark the return of our Recess collaboration with Encode Canada ## [The AI Ethics Brief #180: Emerging Tech with Established Issues](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-180-emerging) _2025-12-23 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ We wish you Happy Holidays before diving into our State of AI Ethics Report Part IV: Emerging Technologies, while Sun-Gyoo Kang explores AI agents and their effect on e-commerce ## [The AI Ethics Brief #179: Seen, But Not Heard: AI's Impact On Labour](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-178-seen-but) _2025-12-09 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part III: Sectoral Applications while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Brazil's newest AI-related bill ## [The AI Ethics Brief #178: How AI Regulation Can Both Harm and Foster Social Justice](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-178-how-regulation) _2025-11-25 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part II: Social Justice & Equity, while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dOLK43XyTuqT) _2025-11-25 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [The AI Ethics Brief #177: Community-led AI Governance](https://brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-ethics-brief-177-community) _2025-11-11 · Montreal AI Ethics Institute · The AI Ethics Brief_ The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency