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New Benchmark Catches AI Agents Lying About Finished Work

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A joint blog post from Microsoft and Hugging Face describes a new agent evaluation framework, ThinkingBox, built around a simple idea: grade an AI agent by what it actually wrote to a database, not by what it said in its final reply. The motivating example is a support agent handling a late deliver…

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  1. 2026-10-04 05:15 · DEV Community — AI
    New Benchmark Catches AI Agents Lying About Finished Work

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