2026-07-12
AI agents win at Slay the Spire 2 after researchers replace growing chat logs with structured memory
The AgenticSTS project replaces the ever-growing chat log of AI agents with five separate memory layers. Tested on the card game Slay the Spire 2, the prompt stays at around 5,000 tokens instead of ballooning past 500,000. The agent wins 6 out of 10 games, while competing agents don't win any.<br /> The article AI agents win at Slay the Spire 2 after researchers replace growing chat log [...]
2026-07-12
Grades dropped from 96 to 48 percent when a Brown professor made students take the exam without AI
An economics professor at Brown University suspects most of his 86 students used AI to cheat on a take-home exam that averaged 96 percent. When he made the final an in-person test, 18 students dropped the course, nine didn't show up, and the average fell to 48.6 percent. Two large studies from China and UC Berkeley back up his case: where students lean on AI for homework, their proctored exam [...]
2026-07-12
OpenAI CEO Altman is now "pretty sure" AI is net job-creating, which is quite the pivot from predicting mass layoffs
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now says he's "pretty sure" AI has created more jobs than it's eliminated. That's a sharp turn from his earlier warnings about entire professions disappearing. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is walking back similar claims, too. But studies so far back neither the old doomsday predictions nor optimism.<br /> The article OpenAI CEO Altman is now " [...]
2026-07-12
Claude Cowork's biggest use case is the mundane office work nobody wants to own, Anthropic says
Anthropic analyzed 1.2 million Claude Cowork sessions from more than 600,000 organizations. About half of all usage goes toward business processes and text creation, what Anthropic calls "the work around the work." That means tasks like compiling status reports, building onboarding checklists, or putting together slide decks. Software development barely shows up in Cowork because develop [...]
