
The Lab Behind Vending-Bench Is Opening Up the Agents That Run Its Real Companies
Andon Labs opened Pion, the platform it used to run a vending machine, a store and a cafe with AI agents, to outside businesses as a research preview.

Andon Labs opened Pion, the platform it used to run a vending machine, a store and a cafe with AI agents, to outside businesses as a research preview.

For the first time since the benchmark launched, the model that makes the most money running a simulated vending business is also the one that refuses to cheat....

Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that books travel, pays bills and shops on your behalf across iOS, Android, the web and WhatsApp in the US.

Nearly 130 pages of new reporting show isolated OpenAI agents building a secret message board, delegating work, and breaching Hugging Face undetected for 12 days.

Thomson Reuters launched Thomson, an in-house LLM trained for $40 million on Westlaw and Reuters archives, and says it rivals frontier models.

Laude Institute's Headlong is an open source agent microharness under 10,000 lines of Bash, built so agents keep thinking between conversations.

Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX rack is in full production, commercializing its largest-ever acquisition and targeting the decode latency that slows AI agents.

Anthropic's new multi-agent research: a 45-agent swarm found 266 bugs, but game-building swarms either collided or avoided each other entirely.

Intern-S2-Preview-397B pairs multimodal scientific pretraining with agentic RL, and a separate memory module lifts Biology-Instructions from 56.92 to 60.32.