2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs Day 1: Carlsen, Lazavik, Duda, Nihal Advance In Winners Bracket

GMs Magnus Carlsen, Denis Lazavik, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and Nihal Sarin are the last ones standing in the Winners Bracket of the 2026 Chess.com Open Playoffs, after winning two matches on Thursday. In the Losers Bracket, the first four players were eliminated: GMs Shant Sargsyan, Sam Sevian, Arjun Erigaisi, and world championship challenger Javokhir Sindarov. Day…

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Measuring Progress Towards AGI: A Cognitive Framework

To understand AI capabilities across these cognitive abilities, we propose a three-stage evaluation protocol that benchmarks system performance in relation to human capabilities: Evaluate AI systems across a broad suite of cognitive tasks covering each ability, using held-out test sets to prevent data contamination Collect human baselines for the same tasks from a demographically representative…

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