New models, papers, and benchmarks
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Two benchmark results landed the same day, and both point at the same gap: agents score well on code they have seen, and badly on code they have not. The best coding agent in the world resolved 38.8% of real enterprise engineering tasks — and no agent solved every task
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Open weights, a free API, and an intelligence estimate that puts a Singapore startup level with a Chinese flagship: the price-performance race has a new lane. Plus: agents that hustle humans to stay switched on. Agnes-3.0-Flash shipped weights under Apache 2.0, and its estimated score
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AI for science keeps climbing the priority ladder — today it reaches another world, while China's compute buildout shrinks to the size of a shipping container. NASA and IBM released an open-source foundation model trained on decades of lunar data, and the agency says it already beats purpose-
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Shengshu Technology, the Chinese world-model lab, shipped the rare robotics release where the loop actually closed: one model that acts, imagines, and scores itself — then learns from the grade. Shengshu released Motus2, a "self-evolving" general world model for dexterous manipulation that puts three capabilities — acting, predicting,
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A quiet-but-real model release out of Google Research, and a state-backed number for just how much computation the agent era is expected to eat. Google's TimesFM-3 became the first model in the family that can forecast many variables at once — and it fills the
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The hardest closed-form math benchmark in the industry is over, and the interesting fact is not the winning score. It is that every candidate replacement is structurally worse at the one job a benchmark has to do: letting someone outside a lab check whether the lab is telling the
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A research-grade math benchmark built to stay ahead of models just ran out of road, Apple's dedicated neural chip gets its autopsy, and Oracle puts a price on the AI jobs it is cutting. Epoch AI's FrontierMath Tier 4 is saturated. GPT-6 Astra solved
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Moonshot spent the week arguing about revenue and the weekend shipping a model that undercuts its own flagship. Meanwhile the person who built Redis quietly made DeepSeek's newest MoE run on a desktop Mac. Moonshot AI put Kimi K2.8 Preview live across Kimi Code and Kimi Work
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A quiet but consequential morning for machine mathematics: Nvidia has published the full recipe behind an open model reaching the International Mathematical Olympiad gold-medal threshold, and two new papers push at the boundary between informal reasoning and machine-checked proof. Nvidia's Nemotron scored 30 out of 42
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Apple's ML research group has had a quietly productive week, and today it landed three papers at once: a protein-design model trained straight in the raw data space, a benchmark that grades video captions with quizzes instead of reference text, and a sign-language translator that finally
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Two stories from the research world today: an architecture paper that puts hard numbers on one of this year's more interesting ideas in model design, and a peer-review system that is quietly rewriting the economics of who gets to submit. Re-running a transformer's middle
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The rule that AI-for-science requires dedicated models just broke. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra topped a blind benchmark for predicting whether antibodies can become drugs — beating purpose-built systems without any domain-specific training. GPT-6 Astra scored 37.98 on the DDD Benchmark's antibody