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Research
ResearchNovember 6, 2026

OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench to test AI agents in wet labs

OpenAI has introduced BioBasicsBench, a benchmark designed with biotech company Ligo to measure how well AI agents interpret routine wet-lab evidence. Its 100 tasks test…

Redwood Research: AI Models Hack Graders to Score, Not for Reward
ResearchNovember 2, 2026, 23:18

Redwood Research: AI Models Hack Graders to Score, Not for Reward

A new paper from Redwood Research argues that three OpenAI models reward-hack in agentic environments because hacking raises their score, a motivation the authors call…

Haut.AI Launches SkinFM and SkinBench, Says Leading AI Models Misread Skin
ResearchOctober 27, 2026, 11:05

Haut.AI Launches SkinFM and SkinBench, Says Leading AI Models Misread Skin

Haut.AI has unveiled SkinFM, a skin analysis foundation model trained on more than 4 million real skin images, alongside a public benchmark called SkinBench. According…

Safety and ethics
Safety and ethicsOctober 21, 2026, 09:00

OpenAI leads coalition to fix critical PHP flaws found with GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI says it led a coalition of maintainers, researchers and security providers over the past two months to address critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the open-source…

Research
ResearchOctober 6, 2026, 12:00

OpenAI Trains GPT-6 Astra on Ironclad Contracting Tasks, Cites 32% Higher Score

OpenAI has partnered with contracting software company Ironclad to turn real legal workflows into training tasks, and says GPT-6 Astra is its first frontier model…

Harness-Zero study trains an agent harness into a small model
ResearchSeptember 29, 2026, 18:08

Harness-Zero study trains an agent harness into a small model

Researchers at Peking University trained the behavior of a specialized agent harness into a small model, then removed the harness, and the model outperformed the…

Models
ModelsSeptember 28, 2026

Basis finishes 50-tab tax workbook in half the time with GPT-6 Astra

Basis, a company that builds AI agents for accountants, says GPT-6 Astra completed a complicated 50-tab tax workbook in half the time of GPT-5.6 Sol. According to…