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Android Bench 2 Adds Support for Long-Horizon Tasks, Agentic Evaluation, and Continuous Scoring

Sergio De Simone — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and agents on Android development tasks. The update introduces long-horizon tasks (LHTs), agent-based evaluation, and continuous scoring to better assess performance on complex, multi-step development tasks.

By Sergio De Simone

Cloudflare Open Sources Decision Models for AI Agents

Renato Losio — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:54:00 GMT

During its recent “Birthday Week”, Cloudflare announced Clef, a set of open-weight AI models designed to choose between predefined options rather than generate text. Cloudflare released 9B- and 27B-parameter models, along with a platform for adapting them to specific decision-making tasks.

By Renato Losio

OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap for Developers

Daniel Dominguez — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:39:00 GMT

OpenAI announced a series of product and developer updates at DevDay 2026, including GPT-6.1 Sol, computer use for the Agents API, cloud-based Codex environments, a Decisions API, and new plugin capabilities for ChatGPT.

By Daniel Dominguez

DigitalOcean Managed Agents Brings Managed Cloud Infrastructure to AI Agents

Sergio De Simone — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT

DigitalOcean recently launched DigitalOcean Managed Agents in public preview, offering a managed cloud infrastructure layer for AI agents with isolated microVM runtimes, governed tool access, and serverless AI inference.

By Sergio De Simone