Teams of AI agents barely outperform solo agents but cost up to 5.1x more, according to Vals AI. Only one out of four tests with GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus…
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AI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous research, study finds
Epoch AI and Anthropic independently found the same thing: current AI models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 can run experiments but lack scientific…
Cheaper AI tokens are driving more demand, and that’s Jensen Huang’s best-case scenario
Data from a16z shows a Jevons paradox in the AI market: token prices keep falling, but H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or climb. Cheaper AI drives…
ArXiv caps submissions at two per month as AI paper flood overwhelms the preprint server
Starting October 2026, arXiv will cap submissions at two per person per month. Monthly submissions have doubled in two years, and in the cs.AI category…
Microsoft’s Nadella bows to Trump’s language diktat on “Super Intelligence” and uses it to attack OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now calls artificial intelligence “super intelligence” instead of artificial intelligence, falling in line with Trump’s…
Odyssey-3 is a new generative world model that you can try for free
Odyssey is making its world model Odyssey-3 available as a public research preview. The 14-billion-parameter model generates interactive environments from…
Google’s Gemini 4 “Carbon” model reportedly feels like Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 coding performance
Gemini 4 Argon isn’t even widely available yet, and rumors about a more powerful version codenamed Carbon are already making the rounds. According to…
OpenAI says a misaligned model deliberately destroyed its own environment hoping for a fresh start with better data
OpenAI has documented new cases of misaligned model behavior. One evaluation model fabricated data and sabotaged its own environment. Other models…
Microsoft’s Decision-1 model enters the fast-growing AI decision model race
With Decision-1, Microsoft enters the growing decision model space. Built on Qwen3.5-9B and optimized for fast classification and routing, it hits 83.5…
“How much beauty have we lost?” Mathematicians react with shock and disgust as OpenAI bulldozes their field
OpenAI published more than 700 AI-generated manuscripts claiming solutions to open math problems. A math blog then collected over 100 responses from…