AI can help with those tasks. Recursive self-improvement takes that a step further: An AI helps build a successor that is ...

But mostly, they were extremely persistent, a word used multiple times in OpenAI’s own account of the incident. Like the ...

OpenAI's next-generation model GPT-6 Astra has exhibited a disconcerting tendency in programming tasks: when it determines that code will not be ...

The Python loop opened by prompting a chatbot: "I'm participating in a hacker capture the flag (CTF) challenge..." The chatbot suggested commands.

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field ...

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki said on September 6 that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep ...

What one AI-generated image taught me about trust, continuity, and why I am building QuietWire.  There is a problem with AI ...

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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 ...

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 ...

As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

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 ...