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Oct 15, 2026
5 new things people handed to AI agents, as sent in that day's email.
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Answer legal questions with checked sources and citations
Researchers built L-MARS, a team of agents that searches the web and case law, then checks its evidence; they report more accurate legal answers than leading chatbots.
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Build an Android app in 28 days with parallel Codex runs
OpenAI engineers had several Codex sessions write most of the Sora Android app in 28 days; OpenAI reports it reached #1 in the Play Store on launch day.
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Have AI agents propose research ideas on superbugs
Google's Gemini 2.0-based AI co-scientist, given an Imperial College question on drug-resistant bacteria, reportedly reached the team's unpublished idea in about 48 hours and suggested one new to them.
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Let an AI agent run a small office shop
Anthropic and Andon Labs let Claude run an office snack shop for a month; Anthropic says it found suppliers but sold items below cost and invented a payment account.
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Port a Python tool to TypeScript with hundreds of agents
Anthropic's Mike Krieger had hundreds of Claude Code agents rewrite a Python tool as 165,000 lines of TypeScript over a weekend, Anthropic reports, checked against the original.
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