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The latest Microsoft Research news, : Microsoft Research finds clearing chat history boosts AI agent performance by 66%.

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    Microsoft Research finds clearing chat history boosts AI agent performance by 66%

    Microsoft Research published a study showing that long-running AI agents often plateau in performance despite more compute. The issue stems from accumulated conversation context, which restricts agents to similar…

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    The Decoder
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    Elorian and Scale AI release benchmark showing AI lags in visual reasoning

    Elorian and Scale AI introduced Humanity’s Sixth Sense, a benchmark testing how AI models interpret implied details in visual scenes. The test covers 522 questions across 288 images and 234 short video clips (17.6…

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    Import AI
  3. Study finds AI summaries reduce user knowledge and critical thinking

    A 2025 study by Wharton professors Shiri Melumad and Jin Ho Yun, published in PNAS Nexus, indicates that users relying on AI summaries retain less information and produce lower-quality advice than those using standard…

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    Search Engine Journal

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As of 12 October 2026: Microsoft Research finds clearing chat history boosts AI agent performance by 66%. Microsoft Research published a study showing that long-running AI agents often plateau in performance despite more compute.