Google Research Releases ToolGrad: Answer-First Framework Hits 99.8% Pass Rate for Tool-Use Data Generation
ToolGrad inverts tool-use dataset generation by building verified API chains first and then writing matching queries, achieving a 99.8% pass rate on ToolBench. Gemma-3-12B fine-tuned on 500 samples scores 83.1 on BFCL, compared to 83.2 for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Read full story →Hyundai Motor Group Puts Data Flywheel Into Full Operation
Hyundai Motor Group activated its Data Flywheel system and demonstrated Level 2++ autonomous driving technology at an event in South Korea on September 13, 2026. The Group presented a dual-track autonomous driving roadmap alongside development strategies and implementation plans at 42dot headquarters in Gyeonggi Province.
Fly Language Model (FLM) Wires the Full Fruit Fly Connectome Into a Frozen 1.2B LLM, and Its Own Controls Show the Wiring Does Not Help
A fruit fly connectome with 166,700 neurons and 25.6 million connections was integrated into a 1.2 billion parameter frozen language model, training only 278,528 additional parameters. The connectome integration achieved 0.0222 nat per token improvement, but control models without the biological wiring performed slightly better across all random seeds.
Altman Says OpenAI Will Match Anthropic’s Embedded Evaluator Pledge
OpenAI committed to embedding independent evaluators with employee-level access to its systems, matching Anthropic's earlier pledge on the same day. Both companies endorsed slowing frontier AI development pace, with OpenAI promising to share additional details soon.