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Research2026-07-28 · source-backed
Epoch and METR's new benchmark asks models to re-implement real software from scratch using only CLI access to the original binary's I/O behavior. Across 25 target programs (22 released publicly) spanning six languages and 16k-61k lines, 17/25 hit perfect scores and 21/25 reached 99%+ accuracy, including Apple's pkl configuration language. Hardest holdouts: ruff, giac_subset, mailauth. The cost curve is the story, not the ceiling. gotree was reproduced for $100-400. "Rewrite this dependency instead of vendoring it" moves from a quarter of engineering to a line item you approve. (Import AI 466)
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The mechanism is copyable and the disclosure is more interesting than the mechanism. Anthropic published on August 31 that it resumed external cybersecurity evaluations after a pause of several weeks, gated behind a real-time classifier that blocks the tool call before executi...
Import AI 466 pairs two results: Anthropic showed Opus 4.7 completing a robot task in 9 minutes against 181 minutes with earlier technology, and Sunday Robotics' ACT-2 hit 99.1% ±0.3% success across 785 autonomous laundry-folding attempts spanning 9 garment types in homes it h...
Import AI 470 walks through a METR note measuring where LLMs moved the needle (Import AI). Vulnerability reports accelerated across cURL, OpenSSL, Firefox, Microsoft, the US NVD and OSV in 2026 against 2025. Math shows arXiv submissions doubling in some areas plus named result...
Epoch puts OpenAI's run rate above $40B, up from $13B a year ago, and Anthropic's at $65B as of end of July, against Exponential View's ~$175B annualized estimate for the whole deduplicated generative AI industry as of June. The analytically useful part is the caveat: when tok...
You noticed the Mac mini shortage. Here's what caused it. The Information reported, via Cult of Mac, that OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of M5 Pro and M6 Mac minis plus M5 Max and Ultra Mac Studios over the past several months, running reinforcement learning and comput...
The RSI debate has been vibes and timelines for two years. This week a frontier lab published an actual measurement from inside its own walls. The Anthropic Institute reported an 8x increase in lines of code merged into its codebase in 2026 versus the 2021–2024 baseline. The t...
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