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GPT-5.6 Sol improved, free ChatGPT access expanded
OpenAI's improved GPT-5.6 Sol promises better accuracy and consistency in ChatGPT, with expanded free access. Here's who benefits and what's missing.
Marcello Babbili
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GPT-5.6 study: max reasoning effort, zero unauthorized tool calls
A prespecified study found zero unauthorized tool calls across 840 GPT-5.6 agent trajectories, but raising reasoning effort changed inspection behaviour
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Five cognitive gaps that break AI agents on long tasks
AI agents fail on long tasks because of five cognitive gaps named in an August 2026 arXiv preprint proposing a new architecture.
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Self-improving AI agents reward their own mistakes
Self-improving AI agents that learn from stored memory can inflate rewards for wrong answers, then preferentially reuse their most confident mistakes
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Video-DeepResearch 35B beats GPT-5 on video reasoning, 64% vs 52.5%
An open-weight 35B model hits 64% on a new video reasoning benchmark, beating Claude 4.5 Sonnet and GPT-5, but the team graded its own homework.
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XGBoost hits 98.62% malware detection accuracy in new preprint
XGBoost outperformed neural networks and SVM in a malware detection benchmark, but the 98.62% figure is self-reported and unverified.
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AI persona agents leak private traits, defenses fail
AntiSkillBench tests 7,500 dialogue traces across three frontier agents and finds privacy risks persist from explicit data to communication style.
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TrainShield serves AI security lessons when phishing risk hits
TrainShield, a new arXiv preprint, proposes AI cybersecurity training embedded in browsing workflows when phishing or data-loss risks are detected.
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DeBERTa-Sentinel detects AI text at 98%, shows its reasoning
An August 2026 arXiv preprint claims 98% accuracy detecting AI text from GPT, LLaMA and Claude, with token-level explanations for auditors.
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Circles lifts telco ARPU 22% with OpenAI API and Codex
Circles used OpenAI's API and Codex to personalise telecom services, self-reporting a 22% ARPU lift and 9% churn cut. What's verified and what isn't.
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AI agent evaluation ignores time: this preprint fixes it
An arXiv preprint proposes replaying temporally-evolving enterprise worlds to test AI agents at any moment, fixing a blind spot in current evals.
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SkillBoost stops AI agents forgetting old skills
New arXiv paper proposes SkillBoost, a three-stage framework that stops LLM agents overfitting to limited experience and forgetting solved tasks.