AI Research Dispatch

AI research dispatch tracking model releases, lab updates, benchmarks, safety work, and academic papers with links to primary or source materials and context.

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Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen

At a glance Project Ire identifies a LOTUSLITE variant that shares TTPs (tools, tactics, procedures) with the public family but none of its indicators of compromise (IOC). The LLM-driven agent …

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Investing in multi-agent AI safety research

Scaling AI Safety Research for a Multi-Agent World For the past decade, we’ve focused on making individual AI models more capable, helpful and safe. Today, Google DeepMind — together with Schmidt …

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MIT affiliates win 2026 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

The Hertz Foundation announced that it awarded 2026 fellowships to three current MIT students as well as an incoming graduate student. They are: Annika Marschner, Alvin Q. Meng, Zachary S. Siegel, and …

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Evaluate AI agents systematically with Agent-EvalKit

Teams building AI agents typically evaluate them the way they evaluate any other software: by checking whether the output matches expectations. But agents that autonomously choose tools and sequence …

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How frontier teams are reinventing AI-native development

Frontier teams are not just using AI to code faster. They’re redesigning how software gets built. The result is 4.5x productivity gains, in some cases more than 10x. Six engineers. Seventy-six days. A …

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For Robotaxis, Safety Must Be Built In, Not Bolted On

A car pulls up to the curb. The app says, “Your ride is here.” No one’s in the driver’s seat. For people who live in one of the dozens of cities now hosting robotaxi services, this is already a …

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DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation

Why diffusion for text? While the AI research community has explored diffusion-based text generation for years, applying it to large models has remained a challenge. DiffusionGemma changes this by …

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Powering the future of robotics in Europe

AI has the potential to help solve some of the world’s biggest challenges — not just in the digital realm, but in the physical world, too. Robotics is one of the most exciting frontiers of AI, where …