Research & papers

Mon, July 6Open Source

GitHub trending project ECC launches as an agent performance optimization system, offering skills, instincts, memory, and security.

Fri, July 3Research

A study uses DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system prompt.

Thu, July 2Research

Speakers at AIEWF opposed the software factory vision, emphasizing the need to preserve human understanding and control.

Thu, July 2Agent

Introspection co-founder Roland Gavrilescu explains autoresearch, agent 'recipes', self-improvement loops, and the central role of humans in the software factory.

Wed, July 1Model/API

Google Research released TabFM, a foundation model for tabular data that enables zero-shot classification and regression via in-context learning.

Wed, July 1Model/API

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap with Opus 4.8 on agentic coding tasks while maintaining lower Sonnet-tier pricing.

Wed, July 1Tools

ScarfBench is a new tool for benchmarking AI agents on enterprise Java framework migration tasks.

Wed, July 1Tools

shot-scraper 1.10 introduces the 'shot-scraper video' command to automatically record web operation demo videos from a storyboard.yml file.

Tue, June 30Research

Together AI publishes eight full-stack papers at ICML 2026, exhibiting at booth B714 in Seoul.

Tue, June 30Research

OpenAI releases GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark using complex real-world datasets to test AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research.

Wed, June 24Tools

Nous Research adds /learn to Hermes Agent, auto-generating compliant SKILL.md files from local directories, doc URLs, past conversations, or notes—no manual writing or ingestion engine needed.

Wed, June 24Research

UC San Diego's DFlash replaces autoregressive draft generation with a lightweight block diffusion model, generating entire token blocks in a single forward pass for accelerated speculative decoding.

Wed, June 24Tools

Simon Willison's test tool explores using the browser's Origin Private File System to edit local SQLite files via Datasette Lite.

Tue, June 23Tools

Sony Xperia 1 VIII's AI Camera Assistant delivers some of the worst photos in years.

Sun, June 21Tools

Nous Research adds Blank Slate mode to its open-source Hermes Agent, starting with only provider, model, file operations, and terminal, with other toolsets requiring user opt-in.

Fri, June 19Tools

New plugin lets users host sandboxed HTML+JavaScript apps within Datasette instances.

Thu, June 18Model/API

OpenAI introduces LifeSciBench, a benchmark assessing AI models in real-world life science research.

Thu, June 18Model/API

Z.ai Lab open-sourced GLM-5.2, a 753B parameter text-only LLM, on June 16.

Tue, June 16Agent

Nous Research's Hermes Agent adds async sub-agent feature, delegation tool spawns background agents without blocking parent dialog.