https://aijourney.space/meta/news/ Changes at Meta, logged from its own announcements, documentation and price pages, never from another publisher, each with what it means for you. en https://aijourney.space/updates/2026-10-09-can-ai-agents-make-open-ended-scientific-discovery-evidence-from-station/ 2026-10-09-can-ai-agents-make-open-ended-scientific-discovery-evidence-from-station Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What happened. On October 6, 2026, researchers Wenyu Du and Stephen Chung posted a paper on arXiv describing Station, an open-world environment where multiple AI agents simulate a scientific ecosystem, and reporting that Station rediscovered 62.7 percent of withheld findings from three ICLR papers when agents were given only the research question and no web access. Sources. arXiv preprint, Can AI Agents Make Open-Ended Scientific Discovery? Evidence from Station, submitted October 6, 2026: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08927 (read 9 Oct 2026) Why it matters. For a reader deciding how much weight to put on claims that software can do open-ended science rather than scoring a fixed benchmark, the gap between a 62.7 percent recovery rate and a far lower figure from a comparison system shows the method, not just the model, drives the result, which raises the bar for what any future agent claiming similar discovery must beat before it is taken as more than a metrics exercise.