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Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 9, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
New Benchmarks Ask Whether Agents Actually Learn Anything Between Tasks
Three papers posted the same day target the same gap: evaluations reset the agent after every prompt, so nothing measures accumulated experience or the cost of memory.
Three papers posted to arXiv on September 9 converge on the same complaint about agent evaluation. AhaBench argues that agents are expected to work over long horizons, reusing worked examples and adapting to delayed consequences, while most…
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