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VentureBeat 2 place · 12/11/2025 19:00 EDT

In a new paper that studies tool-use in large language model (LLM) agents, researchers at Google and UC Santa Barbara have developed a framework that enables agents to make more efficient use of tool and compute budgets. The researchers introduce two new techniques: a simple "Budget Tracker" and a more comprehensive framework called "Budget Aware Test-time Scaling." These techniques make agents explicitly aware of their remaining reasoning and tool-use allowance.As AI agents rely on tool calls to work in th

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