Taste-Bench launches a 502-question benchmark for long-horizon AI-agent decisions, with GPT-5.6 Sol leading at 59.7% under a paired-order test that requires correct choices in both option orders.
OpenAI unveils MentalHealthBench, an open safety benchmark for AI mental-health conversations that tests context gathering, user agency and actionable guidance across synthetic emotional, high-acuity and emergency scenarios reviewed by 80 professionals from 22 countries.
Anthropic says nearly 950 Claude agents uncover a previously uncharacterized CRISPR-like enzyme system in bacteriophages after analyzing DNA data for 21 hours, though its function and practical uses remain unknown.
Xiaomi unveils MiMo-V2.6, an omni-modal AI model family it says significantly improves coding, design and cybersecurity through groupwise reinforcement learning, with its Pro version reaching 72.6 average@3 on DeepSWE v1.1 after the team freezes an unstable Mixture-of-Experts router.
Jared Palmer releases Kev, an open Qwen3.5-based family of 0.8B, 4B and 9B decision models for local deployment and fine-tuning, with calibrated Kev-9B cutting confident errors on new sources from 8.7% to 4.0% while retaining accuracy.
OpenAI claims an internal model beginning training August 28 solves the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem and more than 100 open math questions, while an unpaid Institute for Advanced Study-hosted advisory group is set up to independently scrutinize and publicly challenge its results.
Agora launches a Git-based shared-memory system that lets 13 AutoResearch agents improve a frozen 119.6M-parameter model without gradients or training data, producing 1,703 immutable DAG-recorded contributions and a reproducible 145-commit recipe.
Liquid AI launches LongevityBench and two open aging-focused LFM2 models, saying the 2.6B-parameter version leads NHANES pairwise age prediction while both compact models beat every tested frontier system on Olink proteomics age tasks.
TypeSafe AI launches Jev, a machine-native model built to return typed probabilistic software decisions rather than text, with CEO Diogo Almeida saying its calibrated-decision architecture can act on structured data such as Doom game states in 70–500ms.
Mark Zuckerberg rejects a coordinated AI slowdown as Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute, led by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and James Manyika, while Meta says it delayed its Muse AI agent for months to address safety.