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Android Bench Tests Long Coding Work
Android Bench turns mobile coding evaluation from small patch repair into long-horizon Android work. Google says the updated benchmark adds multi-day...
Progress Hints Cut Tool-Call Waits
Tool-calling systems already know more about long-running work than the model server can see. A new paper, *Ask the Tool, Don't Guess*, argues that the...
Should MoE Experts Stay on the GPU?
FluxMoE, revised on 30 April 2026, treats mixture-of-experts serving as a memory-residency problem rather than only a routing or kernel problem...
Coding Agent Benchmarks Hit the Generalization Wall
Scale's SWE-Bench Pro public leaderboard reports that top models scoring above 70% on SWE-Bench Verified fall to 23.3% for OpenAI GPT-5 and 23.1% for...
Agent Test-Time Scaling Needs Reuse, Not More Rollouts
General AgentBench reports that running agents for more interaction steps or more sampled trajectories did not reliably improve ten leading agents,...
Coding Agents Need Trajectory Reviews, Not Pass Bits
Most coding-agent benchmarks still compress a whole run into one bit: did the task pass? AgentLens argues that users experience the whole trajectory...
Inference Optimization: From 10x Cost to 10x Speed
In late 2022, running a query against GPT-3-class performance cost roughly $20 per million tokens. By March 2026, multiple models exceed that same...
Scaling Laws Explained for Practitioners: What Actually Matters in 2026
Scaling laws promised a simple deal: spend more compute, get better models. For three years, that deal held. Kaplan et al. drew the first power-law curves...
Multimodal Agents Are Still Missing the Workflow
Multimodal agents can see and act in interfaces, but production value still depends on workflow grounding, reliable UI actions and verification.
Small-Model Routing With Frontier Fallback: The Production Cost Pattern
Small-model routing cuts inference bills only when fallback is measured, budgeted and guarded against confidence failure.