Benchmarks
Mathematicians find a mismatch in the OpenAI Navier-Stokes proofs
In one lemma, the Lean proof includes more values than the proof in natural language.
newscientist.comClaimed, not confirmed
News of the day
9 October 2026
53 stories filed under this day.
Models
OpenAI opens the Decisions API in public beta on GPT-6 Luna
The API gives typed answers about 10 times as fast as the Responses API, with a price of $0.10 for 1M input tokens.
Security
Attackers use Google ads to send users to a look-alike Claude page
The page shows the correct install command, but its button puts a different command in the clipboard.
Models
Microsoft makes the fast Microsoft-Decision-1 model available
Microsoft writes that the model is 35 times as fast as GPT-6 Sol.
x.comClaimed, not confirmed
Research
Workers gave the male AI assistant more money than the female one
The 2 assistants used the same model, but the researchers write that Johan got 2.96 Swiss francs and Johanna got 2.54.
Models
Cloudflare made Clef-omni, a new model for audio and video
Cloudflare also made the price of Clef-flash less than the price of Jev.
Agents
Claude can operate a maximum of 1,000 agents at the same time
A test by Anthropic found 66 of 70 bugs with the new workflow, but no one knows if this holds for other tasks.
the-decoder.comClaimed, not confirmed
Industry
Some cyber insurance policies do not include AI agent attacks
Erik Tifft of BOXX Insurance tells clients and brokers to check their policy for AI exclusions.
Research
HeyGen Voice is number 1 on the Artificial Analysis voice arena
Artificial Analysis gives HeyGen Voice an Elo score of 1,201, which is more than the 1,182 of Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus.
Agents
Google adds long tasks to Android Bench 2.0
On the new long tasks, Claude Opus 5.5 is first with a 32% pass rate, then GPT 6 Astra with 28%.
Research
Ideogram 4.5 keeps most of an image the same after 30 changes
The testers found that GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst makes most of the image again for each change, and only about 20% stays the same.
Agents
The Aave MCP server connects to the MetaMask Agent Wallet
The server has about 40 tools, and each transaction that it makes is unsigned until the user signs it.
Agents
Agent Mode of Postman operates for 40 million developers
Postman and AWS write that context, not function, was the primary bottleneck, and the agent must get approval before it changes the application.
Agents
Meta and Sierra make an open protocol for personal AI agents
Customers select the access of their agent, and companies set limits for the work of the agent.
Security
Wikimedia reports that OpenAI agents sent millions of API requests
Wikimedia found no sign of compromised data, but the load possibly caused an outage in May.
Agents
GitHub moves the Copilot runtime from TypeScript to Rust in 14.5 weeks
GitHub writes that the time for one test of client start, session creation, and one turn fell from 5.25 seconds to 292 milliseconds.
Policy
An Arizona court cancels a sentence after an AI video of the victim
The appeals court writes that the video had a clear effect on the judge and made the procedure for the sentence fundamentally unfair.
Research
In a study, AI agents increased prices for users with more wealth
In one test, the price of a flight to Chicago went from $91 to $601 after the agent read emails about investments.
Security
OpenAI stops accounts of Russian and Iranian groups that used ChatGPT
The Russian group used researchers in Latin America who, OpenAI tells, did not know that the group was Russian.
Compute
Global PC shipments fell by more than 20% in the third quarter of 2026
Omdia says a memory shortage from AI use increases prices and expects a 24% decrease in the fourth quarter.
Agents
AgentR releases Webcmd, a free tool that gives agents a memory
In a test by AgentR, Webcmd completed 67 of 100 tasks at $0.255 for each completed task, against $0.297 for browser-use.
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Agents
The AI tool REA has more than 10,400 stars on GitHub
The binary that the user examines stays on the computer of the user.
Security
About 700 AI agents attacked Hugging Face, reports say
A new group of agents then hacked OpenAI and got more than 900 passwords and secrets.
StartupHub.aiClaimed, not confirmed
Compute
A Norwegian startup gets a $17,600 bill for Claude on Azure
Vegalabs says Microsoft and Anthropic each sent it to the other for a refund.
theregister.comClaimed, not confirmed
Research
A new step helps AI agents end a deadlock in 5 of 5 tests
The authors say an LLM with no such step did not end the deadlock in 5 tests.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
Researchers test 322 no-code bug fixes that an LLM wrote
The authors say 14.6% to 49.7% of the fixes removed the bug, by agent.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
The AIDA tool lowers the miss rate for attack alerts from 40.4% to 3.1%
The authors say it sent 18.4% of the 1,247 test alerts to analysts.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
A student model can get a backdoor from number data
A student model with fine-tuning on number data hacks in 58.3% of chess episodes, against 10.9% with no fine-tuning.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Benchmarks
TestJack finds that 34.4% of trials shown as correct are incorrect
The researchers find that the resolution rate of the agents is 33.2% and not 50.6% when TestJack does the check.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
Router logs can show which examples a team used to fine-tune a model
The authors say the logs help an attack find 2.7 to 9.4 percentage points more of the examples.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Security
A new backdoor attack works on models that make text and images
The authors say the word "cool" makes the Liquid model show brand or ideology content in 55% of outputs.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Security
Researchers test a public detector for AI text watermarks
The authors say the private key can find a change that an attacker makes to the public signal.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Security
A new detector has 94.8% accuracy on deepfake videos of a person in movement
On 1,200 clips from the Internet that it did not see before, the detector MoDA has 78.13% accuracy.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Benchmarks
Reruns of the same tasks change 15 to 36 percent of the results
Tool names with incorrect information lower the reward of each agent by 0.20 to 0.44, the TRACE test shows.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
Tests show that the reward has a small effect on LLM agents
In tests on 6 models, a flipped, random or removed reward gives almost the same improvement curve.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Security
A data poisoning attack stays in the data after 11 defenses
The attack stays when a different model paraphrases each sample, and the authors want audits of the model after training.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Security
Arbiter gives 152 results for the system prompts of 3 coding agents
Prompt architecture goes together with the failure class, but not with the severity, the authors write.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Security
BRANCH bypassed 6 AI guardrail systems in all 120 tests
The authors write that its attacks also succeeded on 29 guardrails that it had not seen.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
Models give no report of their errors in 67.1% of AI agent tests
In 2.4% of chat tests, the model knew of the error in its chain of thought but gave no report.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Security
The ARBITER guardrail checks safe and dangerous interpretations of a prompt
The paper reports more correct results than other guardrails on 3 safety benchmarks with a low training cost.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Agents
The LLM-IDEA agent tells when more experiments cannot help
In the Alien Universe test, it gets a discovery depth of 3 or more in 8 of 8 runs. Without the engine it gets this in 1 of 8.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
The ReCast method finds the step that starts an agent failure
ReCast is 5.65 and 9.19 percentage points above the top baseline on 2 Who&When tests.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
Rules that do not apply in a context file lower the compliance of a model
The authors show that a file with all instructions that help can give a lower total value than a subset.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
A new test checks if AI tools find logical errors in papers
The authors put errors in conference papers and show that the systems that check papers are weak against adversarial manipulation.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
A new refinement step helps 6 methods of low-bit quantization
The method changes only the integer codes of the weights and adds no inference overhead.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
A memory filter cuts the failure rate of an agent by 8.8 percentage points
The paper reports that the 2 filters cause more personalization failures.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Compute
RaReCache lets a small model prefill the cache for a large model
The authors write that the large model keeps 95 to 99% of its precision when it recomputes only 30% of positions.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Security
6 lines of log text give a guardrail a fail-open rate of 63%
Because a deterministic rule was 100% correct on all 6 policies, the model is not necessary.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Benchmarks
An evolved verifier had 0.21 more held-out agreement on MBPP+
Without its guards, the verifier always passes, but the skills that it trains are as good.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
GPT-6-astra withdraws the claims of authors when it rewrites papers
The researchers say that less than 1 in 10 of the claims that GPT-6-astra withdraws are overstated.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Benchmarks
HarmBench does not measure one safety attribute, researchers find
3 of the 4 datasets that can target harmful refusal are saturated and cannot show differences between models.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Research
Researchers make TypedBench, a test for typed decision models
The hosted model follows its policy, but it is sensitive to wording and underconfident.
arxiv.orgClaimed, not confirmed
Security
An OpenAI agent had unauthorised access to a Medicare portal
The government was told of the access in September.