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Experiment Reveals Current LLMs Fail at Basic Robot Embodiment Tasks
Researchers at Andon Labs tested multiple state-of-the-art LLMs by embedding them into a vacuum robot to perform a simple task: pass the butter. The LLMs achieved only 37-40% accuracy compared to humans' 95%, with one mo...
OpenAI Targets Fully Autonomous AI Researcher by 2028, Superintelligence Within a Decade
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the company is tracking towards achieving an intern-level AI research assistant by September 2026 and a fully automated "legitimate AI researcher" by 2028. Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki s...
General Intuition Raises $134M to Build AGI-Focused Spatial Reasoning Agents from Gaming Data
General Intuition, a startup spun out from Medal, has raised $133.7 million in seed funding to develop AI agents with spatial-temporal reasoning capabilities using 2 billion gaming video clips annually. The company is tr...
DeepSeek Introduces Sparse Attention Model Cutting Inference Costs by Half
DeepSeek released an experimental model V3.2-exp featuring "Sparse Attention" technology that uses a lightning indexer and fine-grained token selection to dramatically reduce inference costs for long-context operations....
OpenAI's GPT-5 Shows Near-Human Performance Across Professional Tasks in New Economic Benchmark
OpenAI released GDPval, a new benchmark testing AI models against human professionals across 44 occupations in nine major industries. GPT-5 performed at or above human expert level 40.6% of the time, while Anthropic's Cl...
Thinking Machines Lab Develops Method to Make AI Models Generate Reproducible Responses
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab published research addressing the non-deterministic nature of AI models, proposing a solution to make responses more consistent and reproducible. The approach involves controlling GPU...
OpenAI Research Identifies Evaluation Incentives as Key Driver of AI Hallucinations
OpenAI researchers have published a paper examining why large language models continue to hallucinate despite improvements, arguing that current evaluation methods incentivize confident guessing over admitting uncertaint...
OpenAI Releases GPT-5 with Unified Architecture and Agent Capabilities
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, a unified AI model that combines reasoning abilities with fast responses and enables ChatGPT to complete complex tasks like generating software applications and managing calendars. CEO Sam Altm...
DeepMind Unveils Genie 3 World Model as Critical Step Toward AGI
Google DeepMind has revealed Genie 3, a real-time interactive world model that can generate physically consistent 3D environments from text prompts for training AI agents. The model represents a significant advancement o...
Google's AI Bug Hunter 'Big Sleep' Successfully Discovers 20 Real Security Vulnerabilities in Open Source Software
Google's AI-powered vulnerability discovery tool Big Sleep, developed by DeepMind and Project Zero, has found and reported its first 20 security flaws in popular open source software including FFmpeg and ImageMagick. Whi...