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Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?
Good Start Labs trains models in strategy games like 1830 and Diplomacy, showing terminal-agent training transfers to financial research benchmarks.
Good Start Labs, spun out of Every with $3.6M from General Catalyst and Inovia, trains AI models in verifiable strategy games. A 30B model trained as a multi-turn terminal agent in 1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons improved Finance-Agent benchmark performance, while single-turn QA training did not transfer. The founders also co-authored COS-PLAY, a paper on co-evolving LLM decision and skill-bank agents for long-horizon tasks.
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Failing to renew Section 702 ‘will have significant costs for US diplomacy,’ top State official says
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BlueDelta Targets Defense and Diplomacy with HOOKEDGE
Recorded Future reports Russian state-sponsored group BlueDelta deploying the HOOKEDGE backdoor against European defense and diplomatic organizations.
Recorded Future research reports that BlueDelta, a Russian state-sponsored threat group, is using the HOOKEDGE backdoor in campaigns targeting defense and diplomatic organizations across Europe. The disclosure details the group's use of the backdoor in espionage-focused operations against high-value government and military targets.
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