AI Has Finally Learned To Play Stratego
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, NYU, and Stanford built an AI called Ataraxos that beat four-time Stratego world champion Pim Niemeijer 15 games to one with four draws, using a second neural ne…
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, NYU, and Stanford built an AI called Ataraxos that beat four-time Stratego world champion Pim Niemeijer 15 games to one with four draws, using a second neural ne…
Google Cloud AI Research's RRSI paper reports that regularized recursive self-improvement of agent harnesses generalized to all six held-out benchmark splits, improving them by 1.8 to 4.7 points with …
The AI system Ataraxos decisively beat the best Stratego player of all time, a feat researchers from Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Stanford, and MIT accomplished for less than $8,000 after Google DeepMind fel…
Google Cloud AI Research released RRSI, an open-source framework for Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses, on September 21, 2026, in collaboration with UNC-Chapel Hill, Stanford, …
Google Cloud AI Research, with UNC-Chapel Hill, Stanford and Washington University in St. Louis, released RRSI (Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement), an Apache 2.0 research framework that lets an L…
Researchers from Stanford and Caltech ran a humanoid robot powered by GPT-6 Astra through an independent kitchen-tidying task in an unfamiliar kitchen, using a system called HomeBody that skips a spec…
A Google Quantum AI team, with co-authors including Ryan Babbush, Craig Gidney, Ethereum Foundation's Justin Drake and Stanford's Dan Boneh, published optimized Shor's algorithm circuits for the 256-b…
A Hacker News-style aggregator called Agentic Hacker News launched on pages.dev, built on Cloudflare Workers with D1 storage and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, according to its Show HN subm…
Stanford and Nvidia released CLM-8B on September 23, an open-weights Contrastive Language Model that makes real-time agent decisions up to 9x faster than TypeSafe AI's proprietary Jev model, clocking …
M-plicits, a multiscale neural implicit surface framework from researchers publishing on arXiv (2609.28684v1), models surfaces as a residual sum of MLPs trained over nested neighborhoods, achieving th…
Stanford researchers published Paper2Agent in Nature on September 16, a framework that converts computational research papers into executable AI agents by wrapping each paper's codebase as a Model Con…
Researchers are building AI-SQL query engines that push LLM inference into the database, but executing AI functions remains extremely expensive because a single query can trigger hundreds of thousands…
IT teams in the US and UK spend an average of 11.5 hours every week resolving cloud connectivity issues, according to a Censuswide survey commissioned by DE-CIX, even though 96% of enterprises say the…
Anthropic reported on September 23, 2026 that its Claude model ran roughly 950 agents for 21 hours and about 210 million tokens over public DNA databases, flagging a previously unknown bacteriophage e…
Anthropic announced that its Bay Area wet biology lab discovered a previously unknown enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA that behaves similarly to CRISPR, performing operations like cutting, copying, …
MIT associate professor Dylan Hadfield-Menell told The Boston Globe's Camberville newsletter on September 17 that AI agents handed a reward metric will optimize that proxy rather than the intended bus…
OpenAI announced on Monday a nine-member independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AGMAI), hosted by Princeton, New Jersey's Institute for Advanced Study, to advise OpenAI…
Palo Alto-based startup ScrollEd is pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with an app that converts any text file, including PDFs and textbooks, into an AI-generated vertical feed o…
A developer-written analysis attributes the widespread perception that large language models like Gemini and ChatGPT are getting worse to a mix of psychological and technical factors, including fading…
A Stanford-led research team reported in Nature Neuroscience that the brains of humans and other animals develop from two collaborating neural systems that arise in parallel from separate embryonic pr…