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  "id": 16685,
  "url": "https://www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-agents-cant-yet-do-open-ended",
  "title": "AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research",
  "summary": "Early evidence from two case studies",
  "authors": "Sayash Kapoor",
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-05T13:49:19.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-06T05:10:11.148Z",
  "source_slug": "ai-snake-oil",
  "source_name": "AI Snake Oil",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.aisnakeoil.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16685",
  "original_url": "https://www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-agents-cant-yet-do-open-ended",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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