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New Benchmark Reveals AI Agents Still Far From Replacing White-Collar Workers
A new benchmark called Apex-Agents tests leading AI models on real white-collar tasks from consulting, investment banking, and law, revealing that even the best models achieve only about 24% accuracy. The models struggle...
Laude Institute Launches Slingshots Grant Program to Accelerate AI Research and Evaluation
The Laude Institute announced its first Slingshots grants program, providing fifteen AI research projects with funding, compute resources, and engineering support. The initial cohort focuses heavily on AI evaluation chal...
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...
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Launches Flourishing AI Benchmark for Human Values Alignment
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has partnered with faith tech company Gloo to launch the Flourishing AI (FAI) benchmark, designed to test how well AI models align with human values. The benchmark is based on The Global Fl...