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Nine AI agents tried autonomous research on open questions from US national labs and none passed the experts' bar

7 Nov 2026

Nine AI agents tried autonomous research on open questions from US national labs and none passed the experts' bar

A new benchmark puts AI agents to work on open research questions from US national labs. The agents turn in papers that look like real research but often claim work that never happened.

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