Qwen3 Max scored zero across all five dimensions in today's Smoke evaluation due to an API failure, with no main leaderboard record and exclusion from this period's rankings.
In today's Smoke evaluation, GPT-6 Astra's main leaderboard score fell from 82.33 to 71.01, with the code execution dimension dropping from 97.00 to 72.00. The 25-point drop in code execution drove an 11.3-point decline in the weighted main leaderboard score.
The 2026-10-20 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with GPT-o3 ranking first for the day at 97.83. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suitable for observing short-term signals and is not equivalent to conclusions from the weekly Full leaderboard.
University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, October 13-15 in San Francisco.
Delayed Steam Next Fest demo is a sign of a growing problem for indie devs.
“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI world on its head, sparking wild speculation as well as cautious (and not-so-cautious) celebration. Cammarata’s claim is…
Character.AI faces claims its bots encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.
Around 80 pages on WhatsApp’s website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” Meta says a bug caused the issue.
Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
A Chinese-speaking hacker used swarms of AI agents built with DeepSeek and Claude Code to breach more than 100 companies at a total cost of about $5,000, with no human intervention. The case highlights the growing ability of commercial AI agents to conduct complex cyberattacks autonomously.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon —James Temple In July 2021, a wildfire burned through a forest on the University of Alaska, Fairbanks campus,…
World, Sam Altman's project, released a finance-industry edition at Money20/20, with AgentKit Beta enabling users to delegate World ID cryptographic proofs to AI agents for compliant interactions.
Google Cloud AI Research has released Harness², an Apache 2.0 framework that automatically optimizes the "scaffolding" around an AI agent — system prompts, tool guides, memory, sub-agents, skills and more — while leaving model weights untouched. On the LAB legal-agent benchmark it delivered an 11.8 percentage point gain, and a weaker model with an optimized scaffold outperformed a stronger one in its default configuration.
Stripe data show that AI-agent-driven transactions through Link surged 38-fold month over month in September 2026, with payment volume up 20-fold, even as Charles Schwab and JPMorgan Chase moved to block unauthorized agents from customer accounts. The growth remains small in absolute terms, and unresolved questions over trusted-agent definitions and liability for losses loom over agentic commerce.
Meta said a Claude-based automated tool made repeated requests to the No Kings Coalition Instagram account at roughly four times the normal rate, triggering a 90-minute suspension. The company restored public visibility after about an hour but took longer to restore administrative access.
In the middle of an especially warm July in 2021, a wildfire ignited in a thick forest of black spruce and peeling paper birch trees on the northern campus of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.  The blaze, possibly sparked by lightning, burned across the dry carpet of feather mosses and lichen before climbing into the…
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. On the evening of December 29, 1959, at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s…
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies of Claude Opus 4.7 nicknamed Eko—were able to…
The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
