{
  "id": 12600645,
  "title": "Characterizing the role of reasoning tokens in large language models as state over tokens",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/characterizing-the-role-of-reasoning-tokens-in-large-language-models",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nature Machine Intelligence",
    "slug": "nature-machine-intelligence",
    "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01303-y"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01303-y When large language models ‘reason’ about a problem, they might still solve it differently from what their reasoning transcript suggest. In this Perspective, Levy et al. describe how one can start investigating the role of these reasoning tokens.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}