GARDEN preprint demonstrates reusable AI-designed rewards for cooperating agents
Researchers report in a preprint that GARDEN, a system that uses a language model to design rewards for cooperating agents, improved performance when its reward programs transferred unchanged to related scenarios unseen during design.
Developers report Claude refusals on game development and reverse engineering
Developers report that Anthropic's Claude Code and Opus 5.5 are refusing some game development and reverse-engineering tasks, Tom's Hardware reports.
Volta malware adds AI analysis to profile victims and prioritize targets
Cisco Talos researchers have identified an infostealer called Volta-Autodoxer that sends stolen information to language models to build victim assessments, WIRED reports.
Exin founder reports AI-controlled brain injection in a live mouse
An AI agent controlled a robotic brain injection in a living mouse, Exin Therapeutics cofounder Gabriel Ocana Santero told WIRED.
AgenticDS preprint reports better training-data search and downstream accuracy
Researchers report that AgenticDS, a framework for finding model training datasets, improved search ranking quality and downstream training accuracy in a new preprint.
KARMA preprint reports advertising-agent gains without model retraining
A KARMA preprint reports improved advertising-agent performance by editing decision knowledge while keeping model weights and executable code fixed.