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DIAYN Agents With Intrinsic Motivation Match Drosophila Behavior Across 20 Algorithms
NeuroAgents Lab researchers trained agents in a digital fly model with 20 algorithms and no external reward. DIAYN did best, matching the fly in both behavior and…
Independent Critic Lifts Coding-Agent Accuracy by 5.9–9.5 pp
Researchers compared 17 schemes for verifying agent work across seven models. A separate critic added up to +9.5 pp on Terminal-Bench at only 1.13–1.25x the cost.
Google Open-Sources TorchTPU: PyTorch Gets TPU as a Native Device
At PyTorch Conference 2026, Google open-sourced TorchTPU, a stack for running PyTorch on TPUs. In Hugging Face Transformers, one line is enough: device_map="tpu".
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: a 3T open-weight model with a 1M-token context window
Artificial Analysis launches AA-3D: Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads with 1194 Elo
Altman Outlines Three Endgames for the AI Race: From a Global Regulator to Paralyzing Rivals' GPUs
VentureBeat: 79% of Companies Leave GPUs Idle at Least Half the Time
Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro, the First Pro Model in the Lineup, After the Kibitz Test
China's Moonshot AI has confirmed that Kibitz, the anonymous model from Arena's blind battles, is Kimi K3.1 Pro. It is the first Pro model in the lineup, and it…
Inception Releases Mercury 3: a Diffusion LLM 8x Faster Than GPT-6 Luna
Diffusion LLM Mercury 3 is over 40 times larger than its predecessor, runs 8 times faster than GPT-6 Luna and costs $0.35 per million output tokens. Benchmarks…
Artificial Analysis launches Decision Index: Jev 1.13 leads with 58 points
Simon Willison Built a Newsletters Page by Voice: Codex and GPT-6 Astra in an Hour
State of IT in 2026: Agents Wrote More Code Than Humans
Nvidia in talks to buy Reflection AI, a startup valued at $8 billion
Eight Security Assumptions AI Agents Are Breaking: From Two Weeks to Ten Hours
AI agents have rewritten the economics of cyberattacks. Work that would take a human two weeks now takes agents ten hours. Here are eight critical security…
Devin Gets 30–40% Cheaper as Fusion Tops FrontierCode 1.1 With a 68.8 Score
Devin got cheaper: 30–40% in Fusion and Normal, 15–20% in Ultra, up to 70% in Devin Review. Fusion scored 68.8 on FrontierCode 1.1 Extended at $0.60 per task.