DrivingBench: 8 of 11 AI Agent Runs Crashed Before Clearing the First Corner

DrivingBench: 8 of 11 AI Agent Runs Crashed Before Clearing the First Corner

Eight of eleven runs ended in a collision before the vehicle had cleared its opening corner. That is the headline result from DrivingBench, an experiment built by researchers Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns and Tobias Gessler to establish whether today’s leading general-purpose AI agents are ready for tasks in the physical world. The testbed was a … Read more

America.gov: Inside the US Government’s AI Chatbot for 29,000 Federal Websites

America.gov: Inside the US Government’s AI Chatbot for 29,000 Federal Websites

On 29 September 2026, the United States government unveiled America.gov, a single AI-powered portal that lets citizens ask questions in plain language instead of digging through more than 29,000 federal websites. For now it only answers questions and links each answer to an official source. The far bigger promise is scheduled for 2027, when the … Read more