Tej Pandya, founder of GrowEasy.ai, argues that vertical AI agents succeed by addressing three failure points general agents leave to users: multi-turn instruction drift, underspecified prompts, and a…
Anthropic announced its Model Hardware Standard (MHS) at the end of August as an open interface for connecting AI models and agents to hardware, and received 30x more organizations requesting to parti…
Carnegie Mellon University Safe AI lab director Dr. Ding Zhao has founded Safeworld, a startup emerging from stealth with a seed round of more than $12 million led by Shine Capital and a16z Speedrun, …
A developer has published a detailed pattern book for combining the Jev fast decision model with Python rule engines and Claude for explanation generation, applying the architecture to eleven high-val…
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, New York University, and Stanford University built an AI called Ataraxos that beat Pim Niemeijer, arguably the best Stratego player of all time, 15 gam…
Carnegie Mellon University plans to integrate a new open-source book, "Agentic GPU Programming for MLSys," into its Machine Learning Systems course series, teaching a compiler-driven harness that lets…
A team from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, and Stanford University published research in Nature on September 30, 2026 describing Ataraxos, an AI system that achieved superhuman …
A Carnegie Mellon University team led by Xuecheng Liu and Daman Arora proposed Message Passing Language Models (MPLMs), an agentic harness in which an LLM distributes sub-problems to separate threads …
An engineering manager who oversees teams using Claude Code and Codex argues that AI coding assistants create "comprehension debt" — working code that no one on the team can explain. The piece cites a…
GPT-6 Astra in Codex scored 68.8% pass@1 and Claude Fable 5 in Claude Code scored 67.3% pass@1 on 333 GameDevBench Godot 4 tasks, according to the GameDevBench leaderboard from Carnegie Mellon and Pri…
The Open Source Initiative joined the Open Forum for AI (OFAI) in supporting calls for the U.S. to develop more open models, arguing that open models promote competition in AI through local control an…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra became the first AI model to score 100% on ExploitBench, a Carnegie Mellon University benchmark that grades how far a model can carry an exploit chain to arbitrary code execution,…
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on AI alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board, the frontier lab announced Wednesday. Christiano, who previously worked at OpenAI and fou…
China's military is preparing to deploy humanoid robots for combat, according to a review of more than 100 procurement notices, academic papers, patents, and defense-company documents. The People's Li…
The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM), founded by Eric P. Xing at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, released six K2 Horizon language models on September 3, 2026, ranging from…
A new multimillion-dollar advertising campaign backed by Big Tech and the pro-AI super-PAC Leading the Future aims to counter growing public opposition to AI data centers, targeting battleground state…
LG Electronics hosted about 100 doctoral researchers, engineers and R&D professionals from leading US universities, technology companies and startups at its North America Tech Conference in San Franci…
Agility Robotics CTO Pras Velagapudi said the company is betting on factory floors as the proving ground for humanoid robots, citing a massive labor shortage and repetitive, dangerous tasks. Agility h…
Anthropic introduced the Model Hardware Standard (MHS) on August 27, a software specification enabling AI agents like Claude to discover and control physical devices, from robotic arms to lab equipmen…
Carnegie Mellon University released the first lecture video for its Fall 2026 course 'Introduction to Deep Learning' (11-785), presented via YouTube. The video is part of the course's public lecture s…