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AI-driven research in which systems autonomously propose, run and iterate experiments, including evolutionary search, with little or no human selection.
NVIDIA released SoL-Pi, an MIT-licensed Pi extension with four token-saving harness mechanisms that an optimizer agent found. A dev.to review puts the saving near one third on long sessions, bought with a few lost solves.
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Twenty-two authors, including chief scientists from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Meta, asked governments in a Sept. 28 paper to require reporting on how far labs have automated their research and to embed independent auditors inside some firms.
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Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and OpenAI and Anthropic staff urge audits and pause powers, saying AI could fully automate some research projects by 2028. They say the self-reinforcing loop has not started yet but could compress years of progress into months once it does.
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The company says it met its September target for an intern-level research assistant, though the announcement names no evaluator and no finished piece of work, which leaves the March 2028 date as the thing outsiders can actually check.
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An empirical study of publicly released PostTrainBench trajectories finds the training strategy is fixed at step one and the whole remaining budget goes on local tweaks, with scaffolding and human hints improving execution and leaving that pattern intact.
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Latent Space dates five flips from human-made to model-made since 2022. The order they happened in predicts more than the annual cadence the essay claims for it.
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