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The Week in AI Agents

AI Agents of the Week: Papers You Should Know About

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Pascal Biese
Jul 20, 2025
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This week in AI agents, researchers unveiled:

  1. A reasoning framework that lets AI reflect on and correct its own reasoning.

  2. A sophisticated orchestration framework enabling multiple specialized agents to work in parallel with real-time oversight, and a parallel planning approach that dramatically cuts the wait time for complex multi-step tasks.

  3. Novel techniques to align agents with multiple objectives at once – making them simultaneously more helpful and safer.

  4. A creative “mole detector” for sniffing out rogue agents hiding malicious intent.

Taken together, autonomous AI is steadily becoming more persistent, efficient, and trustworthy, suggesting a future where AI assistants can handle long-term, complex goals reliably and safely. The field is slowly starting to tackle the hard challenges head-on - the focus is shifting from fundamental research to applied science.

Now is the time to double down on adoption: move fast, but don’t break things that you can’t fix. With that being said, let’s take a closer look at this week’s highlights, analyze them within the broader context and break down what makes the research special.

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