In August, MIT researchers showed that a society of AI agents placed in a shared world without instructions could invent, build and maintain technology better than the same agents working alone. A team working with Apex Fusion has now reproduced the result on consumer hardware rather than a hosted frontier model.
A Hugging Face post describes ALTK-Evolve, which uses learned memory to reach the top of the τ²-bench leaderboard on customer service tasks without relying on a frontier model.
A computer program has for the first time outperformed humans at solving cryptic crosswords. The Guardian compares the milestone to IBM's Deep Blue beating Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997.
Startup Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator that interprets the faint electrical signals running through plant stems, aiming to let humans understand what plants are communicating.
A Hugging Face post introduces FairStress, an approach for evaluating fairness in decisions made by large language models in more depth.
Eka Robotics is now valued at $1.45 billion on the strength of a physical AI model for robotic arms. The company's arm is described as unusually good at picking up a wide range of objects with smooth, human-like movements.