The Laude Institute announced its inaugural Slingshots grant program, providing funding, compute power, and product support to 15 AI research projects focused on evaluation. The cohort includes initiatives such as the Terminal Bench coding benchmark, an updated ARC-AGI project, Formula Code from Caltech and UT Austin, and Columbia's BizBench. SWE‑Bench co‑founder John Boda Yang leads the new CodeClash competition framework. Recipients are expected to deliver tangible outcomes like startups or open‑source codebases, while the institute warns against benchmarks becoming overly company‑specific. Read more →

The definition of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a topic of debate, with no clear consensus among experts. Depending on the definition, AGI may already exist or be physically impossible to achieve. Researchers have attempted to create objective benchmarks to measure progress toward AGI, but these efforts have been met with challenges. Read more →