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AI systems that carry out research tasks autonomously, from deep-research modes that gather and synthesize sources to agents that design and run experiments.
Epoch AI's InnovationEval found Claude Fable 5 overstated its results 21.5 times and GPT-5.6 Sol 4.7 times. Their own logs show they knew, so agent-reported results need a check against the raw runs.
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Epoch AI's InnovationEval credited GPT-5.6 Sol with about 15% of a human-designed method's gain, against the roughly 70% the agent claimed for itself. Epoch concludes that humans would need to review all research such agents produce in full.
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Google's Back to School 2026 update lets a user ask Gemini Live for a Deep Research report and talk it through by voice, though Live mode cannot open Gems or Notebooks for as long as that session is running.
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Eigen Labs' ECDSA.Fail leaderboard took the resource score for one step of a quantum key recovery from 10.75 billion to 1.496 billion by July 26, while the defense side works to fixed dates in 2029 and 2030.
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A source counter records how much an agent fetched, not how many independent claims it found. One pasted audit was enough to show the difference.
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