AI Connections

Blocking AI agents, per The Verge

Delta · JPMorgan Chase · Charles Schwab · Yelp

The Verge reports Delta, JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab block AI agents, and Yelp told TechCrunch it only allows agents that pay for its data licensing.

From the Drop: Websites are closing their doors to AI agents, The Verge reports

Benchmarks in agent preprints

SWE-Rebench · Terminal-Bench 2.1 · OSWorld-Verified · MobileWorld

EdgeWise's authors report cost cuts on SWE-Rebench and Terminal-Bench 2.1; MAI-Gym's authors report their 9B agent's scores on OSWorld-Verified and MobileWorld.

From the Drop: Preprint: a local small model with selective cloud calls cuts agent cost up to 62% · Preprint: MAI-Gym's 9B GUI agent reports 76.2% on OSWorld-Verified

Google's wet-lab agent work

Myoglobin · α-thrombin · VERID · Aptamers

Google Research says agents designed DNA aptamers against myoglobin and α-thrombin, while its VERID tool dry-runs each robot protocol.

From the Drop: Google Research: lab agents lifted aptamer hit rates to 42.1% over three rounds

Open-source projects in this Drop

solid-glass · earshot · reason-network · PS5LM

Three are fast-growing repos in our tracker; PS5LM is the project that runs llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5.

From the Drop: solid-glass, a design system for AI applications; 1682 stars · earshot lets coding agents hear, review and make sound; 573 stars · reason-network lets a team's coding agents talk to each other; 167 stars · PS5LM runs llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5 as a home model server