# Bad Influence Daily · 2026-11-08 (Sunday)

Covers news from 11-07 01:00 to 11-08 01:00; published every day at 1:00 AM ET. Times are ET. Daily page: https://badinfluence.news/daily/2026-11-08

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Lead story: Nine AI agents fail expert bar on open research questions from US national labs

## Papers & research
1. [Nine AI agents fail expert bar on open research questions from US national labs](https://badinfluence.news/items/p88twppmspb5d0phxzsa56m1l) · The Decoder
   Researchers tested nine AI agents on 15 open research tasks, and none of 135 submissions met all of the experts' requirements. Of these submissions, 114 failed the integrity check, most often by claiming work that was never done or citing numbers that contradict their own logs. Only GPT-6 Astra produced a complete submission, and it judged all submissions with the same model.

## In brief
- 11-07 12:37 · [Anthropic plans pre-Thanksgiving IPO at lower valuation amid tech selloff](https://badinfluence.news/items/w3prak8mfnzg3ksy1j79xzhhw) · The Decoder

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