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StagedWorkspace: A Versioned Workspace for Knowledge-Work Agents
AI agents increasingly perform knowledge work (i.e., produce and modify persistent digital artifacts such as code repositories, documents, spreadsheets, slides, reports), yet the parsed views they search, the native files they edit, the changes they review, and the artifacts they submit can refer to different versions of the same work product. We formulate this as a workspace-state contract: every view should be explicitly tied to a version of the evolving workspace state. Coding agents partly address this need through repository contracts for search, diffs, and tests, whereas an analogous contract is less explicit for PDFs, spreadsheets, slides, notebooks, and mixed-format project folders. We propose StagedWorkspace, a versioned workspace for knowledge-work agents. The workspace binds parsed records and review diffs to content hashes of the native files as they change. In fixed-harness ablations on OfficeQA Pro and APEX-Agents, dual parsed/native access has the highest point estimate for every tested model; relative to the more limiting single view, it improves OfficeQA Pass@1 by 8.3-12.1 points and APEX mean rubric score by 4.7-9.2 points. SW-AGENT scores 63.9% with Gemini 3.1 Pro on OfficeQA and 42.1 with GPT-5.4 Nano on APEX, compared with published same-model scores of 29.3% and 25.5, respectively. A paired review-axis ablation on 57 file-editing tasks further finds higher observed scores when diffs are visible. These results identify workspace state as an experimental variable in knowledge-work agents and motivate benchmarks that score evidence, staged edits, and submitted artifacts as explicit state transitions.
Chain-of-Experience for Continual LLM Improvement
Humans continuously learn from experience, whereas conventional large language model (LLM) evaluations ignore the models' ability to improve through inference-time interaction. In this paper, we study how LLMs learn from iterative experience at test time, a setting we refer to as Chain-of-Experience (CoE), where models accumulate experiential traces through iterative interactions with self or environmental feedback to form a continual improvement loop beyond zero-shot inference. We instantiate CoE with diverse feedback mechanisms, including model self-feedback and environmental signals such as correctness or public coding test pass rates, and evaluate across math, coding, and knowledge domains using 8 LLMs, including GPT-5, Gemini-2.5 Pro, Claude-4.5 Sonnet. Our study shows that leveraging iterative experience consistently outperforms feedback-free baselines, achieving substantial gains with self feedback alone, alongside a 5.6% overall improvement and 19% lower API cost across tasks and models. We further show that combining complementary feedback channels (e.g., model and correctness signals) yields additional gains, and that CoE delivers higher accuracy per token than existing test-time strategies. We observe a positive correlation between LLM base ability and improvement capacity, and show that models remain robust under weak or spurious feedback, with different feedback contributing to distinct improvement aspects and most gains emerging early in the iterations.
How Jumio built a real-time feature store on AWS
Learn how Jumio built a centralized, real-time feature store on AWS with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. The architecture delivers sub-100ms feature serving for fraud detection and saves approximately $120,000 annually.
BEAR-Bench: A Bilingual Enterprise and Academic Reasoning Benchmark for Multimodal Models
While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made significant strides in visual comprehension, their ability to reason about text-dense, professional documents remains incompletely evaluated. Existing benchmarks emphasize information extraction, require external domain knowledge, or cover professional documents only as one of many settings. They are also largely English- or Chinese-centric, leaving other languages and Russian, in particular, substantially underrepresented. To address these limitations, we introduce BEAR-Bench (Bilingual Enterprise and Academic Reasoning), a self-contained, complex English-and-Russian benchmark comprising 1000 human-annotated questions based on text-rich business and scientific documents. We evaluate 16 proprietary and open-weight MLLMs, including Gemini 3.1 Pro and Qwen3.5-397B, on BEAR-Bench and observe clear headroom even for the strongest systems. Finally, we use the resulting model outputs to compare existing hallucination detection methods, evaluating not only how often models fail on BEAR-Bench but also how reliably those failures can be identified.
Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are
One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track…
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
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GEO-Flag: Detecting and Measuring GEO-Optimized Web Content
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) modifies web content to increase its likelihood of being selected and cited by generative search engines. This can give strategically optimized pages visibility disproportionate to their authority or relevance and even make weak or false information appear well supported. Unlike conventional search, generative search synthesizes information into direct answers rather than presenting competing sources, which can further amplify these risks, as assessing source provenance and authority requires additional user interaction. Despite these concerns, systematic methods for detecting GEO-optimized webpages remain underexplored. We introduce GEOFlagBench, a benchmark of 3,200 webpages spanning 400 queries, four domains, and eight GEO optimizer families, and use it to systematically evaluate existing GEO detection methods. Although the strongest baseline achieves an aggregate F1 of 0.880, method-level and authorship-conditioned evaluations reveal substantial weaknesses and potential reliance on authorship-related shortcuts. We therefore propose Intervention-Paired Training (IPT), which supervises detector responses to GEO interventions and non-GEO AI polishing; on ModernBERT, IPT improves F1 from 0.862 to 0.944 and worst-group accuracy from 0.725 to 0.883. We develop a GEO-gated Agent system for auditing the Source Tier and verifiability of Citation URLs in detected GEO pages. Finally, we deploy the complete pipeline on released Google Search and Gemini-grounded retrieval results for 1,000 real-user queries. Across 10,095 available pages, we estimate an overall GEO prevalence of 8.90\%, reaching 16.36\% among pages modified in 2026. Our results establish a foundation for systematically detecting, auditing, and measuring GEO in real-world search ecosystems.
Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work
Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic…
You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks
Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle…
Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
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Monitor on-premises and multi-cloud AI agents with AgentCore Observability
Set up Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability for AI agents running outside AWS: on-premises, on GCP, on Azure, or on developer machines. This walkthrough uses the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and IAM credentials to route session traces, span metrics, and token usage to the same AgentCore Observability dashboard.
Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work
Amazon Quick is now available directly inside Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. These extensions bring connected data access and agentic document editing into the Microsoft 365 apps your teams already use, so you can analyze data, draft content, and reach enterprise knowledge without switching applications.
Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
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