I use research to challenge and sharpen my judgement. It does not replace accountable decisions. Dates below refer to the original publication or the current official update where stated.

17 primary or institutional references
McKinsey & Company25 August 2026

The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI

Enterprise adoption and value

Shows that adoption is widening while enterprise value still depends on workflow redesign, leadership commitment and operational rigour.

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Boston Consulting Group15 January 2025

From Potential to Profit: Closing the AI Impact Gap

AI portfolio focus and value

Connects stronger AI outcomes with a focused portfolio, redesigned processes, workforce enablement and systematic measurement.

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National Institute of Standards and Technology26 July 2024; updated 8 April 2026

Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile

Cross-sector AI risk management

Provides cross-sector actions for governing, mapping, measuring and managing generative-AI risks throughout the lifecycle.

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European CommissionUpdated July 2026

AI Act: regulatory framework for artificial intelligence

European AI regulation

Provides the official risk-based framework and current application timeline relevant to cross-border European operations.

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OpenCodeAccessed 30 July 2026

Agents and permissions documentation

Tool-using agent architecture

Documents agent modes and explicit allow, ask and deny boundaries for built-in, custom and MCP-exposed tools.

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Sakana AI and research collaborators10 April 2025

The AI Scientist-v2: Workshop-Level Automated Scientific Discovery via Agentic Tree Search

Search, experimentation and external evaluation

Demonstrates a research workflow that explores experiments through managed tree search, executes code and uses review feedback, while documenting important limits.

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ARC Prize Foundation24 March 2026

ARC-AGI-3: A New Challenge for Frontier Agentic Intelligence

Interactive reasoning evaluation

Introduces interactive environments that test exploration, memory, goal acquisition and planning efficiency on unfamiliar tasks.

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Kaggle and ARC Prize Foundation2026 competition

ARC Prize 2026 — ARC-AGI-3 competition

Current benchmark competition

Provides the active competition rules, data, scoring method and current leaderboard for ARC-AGI-3. Leaderboard results can change.

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François Chollet / arXiv5 November 2019

On the Measure of Intelligence

Intelligence as skill-acquisition efficiency

Provides the conceptual basis for measuring generalisation, priors and the efficiency with which a system acquires new skills, beyond its score on familiar tasks.

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ARC Prize Foundation24 March 2025

Announcing ARC-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025

Abstract reasoning and efficient generalisation

Introduces a benchmark designed to remain relatively easy for humans while exposing capability and efficiency gaps in frontier reasoning systems.

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ICLR / OpenReviewICLR 2025

Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally Can Be More Effective Than Scaling Parameters for Reasoning

Adaptive inference-time computation

Shows that the value of additional reasoning compute depends on the problem and the strategy used, supporting selective rather than uniform allocation.

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ICLR / OpenReview16 January 2024

Large Language Models Cannot Self-Correct Reasoning Yet

Limits of intrinsic self-correction

Finds that asking a model to reconsider its own reasoning without external feedback can fail or degrade performance, motivating independent evaluation signals.

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NeurIPSNeurIPS 2023

Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning

Feedback, memory and agent correction

Demonstrates an agent design that converts task feedback into linguistic reflections and episodic memory to improve later attempts across several task types.

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Model Context Protocol26 March 2025 revision

Protocol specification: Overview

Structured access to tools and resources

Defines capability negotiation and the resources, prompts and tools that an MCP server can expose. It is an integration layer, not a reasoning or safety mechanism.

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Farhi, Goldstone and Gutmann / arXiv14 November 2014

A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Quantum combinatorial optimisation

Introduces QAOA as a method for producing approximate solutions to certain combinatorial optimisation problems. This is the narrow technical basis for exploring quantum-assisted planning subproblems.

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Nature Reviews Physics28 October 2024

Challenges and opportunities in quantum optimization

Quantum advantage and benchmarking

Reviews the opportunity and open questions in quantum optimisation, emphasising rigorous comparison with appropriate classical methods before claiming advantage.

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PRX Quantum10 September 2024

Solving Boolean Satisfiability Problems With the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Quantum constraint solving and current limits

Examines QAOA on hard constraint-satisfaction problems while documenting the substantial practical and comparative hurdles involved in outperforming classical solvers.

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