On this day: Sep 23

8 records from this date, 2024 to 2026, gathered year by year — the most recent year first.

2026

This year · 7 records
Renmin University researchers release the Agent-Editing World Model (AEWM)Shuang Sun et al. (Renmin University of China)

It recasts why agents break down on long tasks — not "because they cannot read the environment" but "because stale state descriptions they wrote themselves linger". It means what a harness has to manage is not tool calls

CMU researchers publish a study on world models learning object permanenceHaotian Zhang et al. (Carnegie Mellon University)

An attempt to measure, separately from video generation quality, "whether a model has basic common sense about the physical world". Moving cognitive-development tasks into a benchmark shows world-model evaluation startin

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OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads to six Southeast Asian countries and TaiwanOpenAI

The structure of propping up the free tier with ads grew in a single month from 40 countries in August to more than 60. It means the model of recovering inference costs through ads rather than subscription fees is past t

Airbnb expands GPT-6 Astra access across engineering and productAirbnb, OpenAI

It shows the point where frontier-model adoption cases move from "code generation" to non-coding knowledge work such as architecture design and strategy documents. However, the 80% increase and the drop from 20 attempts

Claude agents find ART, an undescribed enzyme system, in bacteriophagesAnthropic

A case of AI moving from summarizing the literature to "deciding for itself what to look at and noticing anomalous patterns first". A structure in which a lab sets up its own wet lab to check its own model's discoveries

Sam Altman addresses the UN Security CouncilOpenAI (Sam Altman)

A scene of a frontier lab's CEO proposing a regulatory design for his own industry at a Security Council session. All four proposals lean toward "measurement, reporting and checking", leaving out deployment approval and

Yoshua Bengio addresses the same UN Security Council sessionYoshua Bengio

At the same session, a lab (measurement and reporting) and an independent scientist (prior licensing and liability insurance) put forward different regulatory models. This gap becomes the real front line of international

2024

2 years ago · 1 record
Sam Altman publishes "The Intelligence Age"Sam Altman

The phrase "a few thousand days" became the single most-quoted line in the 2024–25 timeline debate. Its vague unit itself became a point of contention