CNBC

'Extinction' warnings ramp up as more OpenAI, Anthropic researchers join calls for an AI slowdown

Researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic are publicly urging slower AI development, as debate grows over self-improving AI and its risks. Many concerns revolve around advanced models getting incredibly ...
MIT Technology Review

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost ...
The Atlantic

The Case for Calling People on the Phone

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Time

Inside the Race to Make AI Build Itself

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NextBigFuture

Self Improving Harness – Self-improving coding and research agent

Prime Agent is an open-source self-improving coding and research agent (harness) released by Prime Intellect on August 5, 2026. It is built for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks. It ...
TechCrunch

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, is ...
techtimes

Gemini 3.5 Pro Targets July 17 After Full Rebuild: Every Spec Remains Unconfirmed

Google DeepMind is targeting July 17 for the general availability of Gemini 3.5 Pro — now four days away — but every specific claim circulating about the launch, including the date itself, the ...
The Conversation

Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence?

The US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about their dangers. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not ...
Geeky Gadgets

Google Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17 to Upgrade Math

Google DeepMind has decided to scrap the 2.5 Pro base model in favor of a revised approach for its upcoming Gemini 3.5 Pro release. Initially slated for a June 2026 launch, the release has been ...
Time

Recursive Self-Improvement is the Human Skill We Need in the AI Age

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Scientific American magazine

Anthropic warns AI could soon start improving itself. Critics aren’t convinced

The companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence should be ready to slow down, one of the fastest-moving among them says. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, has claimed AI systems may ...