{
  "id": 3634517,
  "title": "Skill Issue: Are Skills Language-Invariant in LLMs?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/skill-issue-are-skills-language-invariant-in-llms",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-26T14:12:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25832v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Large language models access knowledge inconsistently across languages, but to what extent do they differ in their skill sets when interacting with different languages? This work quantifies cross-lingual skill inconsistency orthogonally from knowledge and general benchmark performance. We do this via multilingual self-play: two instances of the same model compete in a text-based game, each…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "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."
}