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Can SheetCompass Read Real Workbooks?
SheetCompass tackles a production problem that ordinary table prompts often hide: spreadsheets are spatial workbooks, not flat text files. The paper was...
SWE-Bench ProMax Tests Refactoring Depth
SWE-Bench ProMax moves coding-agent evaluation from single-issue repair towards large, behaviour-preserving refactors. The paper was submitted on 10...
SWE-Bench Mobile Exposes Agent Variance
SWE-Bench Mobile tests coding tools against industry mobile-development work rather than public Python bug fixes. Its uncomfortable result is that the...
EcoAgent-Bench Prices Escalation Choices
EcoAgent-Bench is a 6 August 2026 benchmark for a deployment question that ordinary task-success scores blur: when should a tool-using system spend more,...
Chip-Design Agents Need Token ROI, Not Demo Flows
FluxBench landed on arXiv on 20 July 2026 with a useful warning for chip-design teams: two agents can start from the same foundation model and still...
Industrial Agents Hit the Factory Floor
Industrial agents are reaching factories through maintenance, data governance and OT workflows. Rollout depends on integration and safety boundaries.
Agent Cost Optimization: How to Track and Reduce LLM Spend
Token prices dropped 280x over two years. Enterprise AI budgets rose 320% in the same period. That's not a paradox. It's what happens when agentic...
Power Grid Agents Need Constraint Tests, Not Chat Scores
A June 2026 power-systems benchmark argues that language-model agents can solve grid-engineering tasks, but the useful signal is narrower: the agent must...
Healthcare AI Agents Move Beyond Drug Discovery
Healthcare AI agents are moving into admin, triage and prior-authorisation workflows. The real gate is safety, evidence and accountable handoff.
Multilingual Agents Need Workflow Tests, Not Translation Scores
PolyWorkBench landed on arXiv on 7 July 2026 with a useful correction to enterprise-agent hype: a global workflow is not a translated English task...