{
  "id": 11339937,
  "title": "DAYJOB: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Professional Work",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/dayjob-a-benchmark-for-long-horizon-professional-work",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-01T08:39:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01306v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Professional work often starts with a brief request that leaves the professional to work out what is needed, which documents matter, and whether the request's premise holds. We introduce DAYJOB, a benchmark of 130 tasks built by professionals in healthcare (50) and finance (80). The tasks are estimated to take a professional 13.6 hours on average in healthcare and 16.6 in finance. Each task is a…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}