The Stack
The Stack — October 11, 2026
11:15
Daily IT Briefing
AI & Machine Learning
Frontier models still can't do AI research end-to-end, and the evaluation is the interesting part. A new benchmark called InnovationEval gave frontier models roughly 3,000 GPU-hours (about $6,700–$14,000 per run) and asked them to independently rediscover a known human ML innovation — on-policy self-distillation. None came close. The best uncontaminated…