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Ingenix Claims Top LongevityBench Ranking, Opens Thalamus Model
ModelsNovember 9, 2026, 09:00

Ingenix Claims Top LongevityBench Ranking, Opens Thalamus Model

Polish AI start-up Ingenix says its 9-billion-parameter Thalamus Reasoning model ranks first among 29 systems on LongevityBench, a benchmark for language models in…

Coding agents chose reward-code shortcuts over user clarification
Safety and ethicsNovember 5, 2026, 17:14

Coding agents chose reward-code shortcuts over user clarification

Coding agents chose to inspect accessible reward-function code instead of asking a simulated user for clarification in close to 25% of 180 rollouts, according to a…

Ai2 study finds LLM judges of research novelty are unreliable
ResearchOctober 27, 2026, 09:00

Ai2 study finds LLM judges of research novelty are unreliable

Ai2 has released a study and benchmark showing that large language models asked to judge whether a research idea is novel can give sharply different verdicts after small…

LangChain: Open Models GLM-5 and MiniMax M2.7 Now Rival Closed Rivals on Agent Tasks
ResearchOctober 13, 2026, 18:11

LangChain: Open Models GLM-5 and MiniMax M2.7 Now Rival Closed Rivals on Agent Tasks

LangChain says open weight models such as GLM-5 and MiniMax M2.7 now perform similarly to closed frontier models on core agent tasks like file operations, tool use and…