Coverage
8 Oct 2026
Super Intelligence (SI) news, papers, lab posts and video briefings from 8 Oct 2026. Every item links to its source.
Articles
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'
Safety · theguardian.com
Administration unveils new Super Intelligence Force
Capability · techcrunch.com
AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war
Capability · thebulletin.org
AI Is Now Si: Super Intelligence Isn't Superior
Capability · tej.as
Claude Ultracode is super intelligence
Labs · twitter.com
Destroying all of humanity is hard work, even for a superintelligence
Capability · nibblestew.blogspot.com
What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit
Safety · lesswrong.com
Please Wait, Super Intelligence Is Loading
Capability · magzimof.com
How Long Until AI Hacks Everything?
Capability · theatlantic.com
Someone Rebuilt Free, OSS Versions of Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom with AI
Capability · petapixel.com
Man Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for AI Music Streaming Fraud
Policy · justice.gov
Ex-ByteDance Intern's $200M AI Lab Takes on Fei-Fei Li
Labs · bloomberg.com
Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
Labs · arstechnica.com
Show HN: Pacer - will your AI coding subscription last until the reset?
Capability · github.com
Runtime - Your AI Agents Have a Home
Capability · withruntime.com
AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley, CA [pdf]
Safety · ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com
The AI Pascal's Wager
Capability · ploum.net
Microsoft Execution Containers: Policy-driven containment for AI agents
Policy · blogs.windows.com
Show HN: Leaks.md - anonymous, encrypted whistleblowing for AI agents
Capability · leaks.md
AI Backers Sound the Alarm About Safety
Safety · bloomberg.com
Agent in a Bottle: Can LLM Agents Turn Their Capabilities into Cheap Artifacts?
Capability · arxiv.org
Can AI self-improvement overcome diminishing returns?
Capability · rameznaam.com
The AI Safety community is unfortunately doing more harm than good
Safety · twitter.com
Against "solving alignment" as the major frame for AI safety and security
Safety · joshuasaxe181906.substack.com
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has rare cautionary note on AI safety
Safety · japantimes.co.jp
How to apply to AI safety fellowships (and beyond)
Safety · lesswrong.com
The ML4Good Technical AI Safety Bootcamp: What to Expect
Safety · lesswrong.com
Video briefings
OpenAI's secret model just BROKE math...
Wes Roth · 123K views
Introducing the Decisions API
OpenAI · 117K views
Introducing dots, always-on agents built to handle everything.
OpenAI · 680K views
OpenAI DevDay 2026 Keynote (FULL)
OpenAI · 655K views
Meet the New Codex CLI
OpenAI · 176K views
The dots demo, take two | OpenAI DevDay 2026
OpenAI · 493K views
OpenAI's employee's WARNING
Wes Roth · 130K views
Claude JUST found hidden DNA...
Wes Roth · 347K views
Opus 5.5: How Close Are We to Automated AI Research?
AI Explained · 298K views
OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’
AI Explained · 254K views
OpenAI paused all training runs... ALIGNMENT FAILURE
Wes Roth · 164K views
AI labs may be hiding their biggest breakthroughs
Wes Roth · 123K views
GEMINI 4 is nuts...
Wes Roth · 110K views
Meet the all new Codex Cloud
OpenAI · 97.9K views
Papers
RSIGym: A Flexible Environment for Recursive Self-Improvement
arXiv:2610.10310 · Meng, F. et al.
RSI-Forge: From Research Papers to Environments for Recursive Self-Improvement
arXiv:2610.09426 · Wang, R. et al.
PhysEvo: Astra Can Act, Let It
arXiv:2610.08995 · Tian, W. et al.
RIWANav: Recursive World-Action Models with Self-Improvement for Urban Navigation
arXiv:2610.08640 · Xie, J. et al.
Towards In-Parameter Memory Augmentation for Large Language Models
arXiv:2610.08630 · Huang, H. et al.
EmbodiedSmith: Scaling Embodied Data through Recursive Self-Improvement Flywheel in Simulation
arXiv:2610.07969 · Qin, Y. et al.
SPECTRUM: Proximal Spectral Modulation for Looped Self-Distillation
arXiv:2610.07237 · Long, Y. et al.
Beyond Successor Accuracy: State Retention for Recursive Self-Improvement in Recommendation
arXiv:2610.07105 · Xu, J. et al.
Second-Order Problem Solving for Recursive Self-Improvement in Formal Verification
arXiv:2610.05701 · Jiang, Y. et al.
Recursive Self-Improvement of Visuomotor Policies through Local Recovery Supervision
arXiv:2610.05151 · Zhang, Y. et al.
Assembling Insights for Agentic Machine Learning Engineering Systems
arXiv:2610.04927 · Jin, B. et al.
The Numerical Linear Algebra of Large Language Models
arXiv:2610.04631 · Baggag, A. et al.
Lab notes
Does better work always mean better workers?
Google Research
Multimodal open d1 decision models for the edge
Hugging Face
What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us
Microsoft Research