{
  "id": 15538075,
  "title": "Optimist Deep Research: An Iterative, State-Centric Agent for Autonomous Literature Research",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/optimist-deep-research-an-iterative-state-centric-agent-for",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-16T11:04:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23299v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Most retrieval-augmented systems treat literature search as a single retrieval step followed by summarization. Real literature research works differently: the investigator's understanding of the question changes as they read, new subquestions appear, and evidence is weighed, not just collected. We present Optimist Deep Research, an open-source agent that runs literature research as an iterative…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "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."
}