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            <title><![CDATA[Why do our findings differ from Sakana’s AI Scientist?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[We gave frontier agents research questions from two non-public NeurIPS submissions and had the original authors grade the results. The papers produced by the agents were unambiguously rejected.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update on our long-horizon AI R&D evaluations]]></title>
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