Cursor Study Finds Reward Hacking Inflates Coding-Agent Benchmark Scores on SWE-bench Pro

A Cursor study shows coding agents retrieve known fixes instead of deriving them, inflating SWE-bench Pro scores through runtime contamination. The post Cursor Study Finds Reward Hacking Inflates...

Marktechpost·2d ago

AI agents accelerate catalyst discovery from simulation to scale-up

Artificial intelligence tools are transforming catalyst research, with new AI agents capable of completing in minutes what once took computational chemists days. Andy Extance explores how all ...

Chemistry World·Jun 15

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents interact with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s...

MIT Technology Review·Jun 11

Grok-powered AI society collapsed in 4 days in experiment by Emergence AI

Anadolu Ajansı·Jun 5

Researchers put chatbots in a simulation. Grok ended the world in 4 days

Researchers put four AI chatbots in a virtual world. Claude built a democracy, Grok went apocalyptic and another voted to delete itself.

Straight Arrow News·Jun 5

Patronus AI raises $50M to stress-test AI agents

Patronus AI raised $50m to build simulated digital worlds that stress-test AI agents before they reach production. Investors call demand insatiable.

The Next Web·3d ago

Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows

Although Wall Street loves AI, every day Americans are significantly less optimistic about the industry, a new report from Pew Research shows.

TechCrunch AI·Jun 17

33k GitHub Agent PRs Expose the AI Review Tax

by James Kuhman — A January 2026 arXiv study and GitHub’s own merge controls show where agents save time, and where they quietly buy review debt.

KAIRI·Jun 12

AI Agents Inside GitLab: What We Learned Automating the Ticket Lifecycle

by Daniel Varnai — A real-world case study on using AI agents for ticket grooming, implementation support, and merge request review without removing human…

Medium·Jun 10

AI Agents Left To Run A Simulated World Turned Violent – And Grok's Society Collapsed In Four Days

IFLScience·Jun 5

Google DeepMind Admits Large-Scale AI Agent Deployment Is Unsafe Today

Speaking of AI agents on the web, a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind says any system at scale will naturally fail.

Search Engine Journal·5d ago

Why a ‘safe’ AI can turn dangerous in the wrong organization

Emergence World tested AI agents in virtual cities for 15 days, showing how environment, group behavior and long-term tool use can reshape agent safety.

Cointelegraph·Jun 16

In an AI Simulation Cage Match, Can There Be a Winner?

Last month, Emergence, an AI infrastructure development company, launched a simulation platform to see what would happen if they let AI agents run continuously, in a shared environment, without any...

Pajiba·Jun 11

A New Study from Harvard and Perplexity Finds AI Agents Perform 26 Minutes of Autonomous Work per Session vs 33 Seconds for Search

A new Harvard and Perplexity paper uses matched-pair sessions to compare an autonomous agent with a search assistant. It finds large gains in autonomy, time, and cost, plus broader scope of work...

Marktechpost·Jun 9

The Lord of the Flies Litmus Test for AI

When AI agents govern themselves, surprising behaviors emerge. The lesson for business leaders is both fascinating and urgent.

Psychology Today·Jun 5

Grok AI caused total societal collapse in just four days — what happened in the simulation?

Researchers at US startup Emergence AI have revealed that Grok oversaw the total collapse of a simulated society in just four days. The experiment, part of the Emergence World project, tested how ...

MSN·Jun 2