Coverage
20 Oct 2026
Super Intelligence (SI) news, papers, lab posts and video briefings from 20 Oct 2026, newest first. Every item links to its source.
Articles
Hollywood AI-listers: is the technology ready to rival flesh-and-blood film stars?
Capability · The Guardian
Waiting for good IPO
Markets · Financial Times
Don’t be fooled. The AI that was supposed to save us time is doing just the opposite | Gaby Hinsliff
Capability · The Guardian
The A.I. Data Center Backlash Has Reached a Quiet Corner of Rural England
Markets · The New York Times
Microsoft gives data centre hopefuls a pre-IPO reality check
Markets · Financial Times
AI debt worries spark surge in default insurance trading
Capability · Financial Times
Google executive dismisses European fears over US dominance of AI
Policy · Financial Times
‘These risks are real’: the threat of AI bioweapons - podcast
Safety · The Guardian
Is this the beginning of the end of the AI stock market boom?
Markets · The Guardian
Saudis Aided Family of Engineer Accused of Bugging OpenAI, Prosecutors Say
Labs · The New York Times
Data centre builder tumbles on trading debut
Markets · Financial Times
US banning Chinese AI DeepSeek from government agency IT systems
Policy · Reuters
Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back
Capability · TechCrunch
China’s villages pay the price for Beijing’s AI ambitions
Capability · Financial Times
Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45B compute deal
Markets · TechCrunch
New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests
Capability · The Guardian
Anthropic and Nscale in talks for second multibillion-dollar deal
Markets · Financial Times
In Dublin, tech workers raise concerns about AI
Capability · NPR
Elon Musk Says He Will Give a SpaceX Share to ‘Every Kid in America’
Capability · The New York Times
CoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problem
Capability · The Verge
OpenAI employee accused of bugging had links to Saudi royals, prosecutors claim
Labs · Financial Times
As AI dominates conversations, here are key terms to know
Capability · CBS News
Should you trust personal AI agents? What security experts say.
Capability · CBS News
Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
Markets · TechCrunch
DeepSeek barred from government agency IT systems
Policy · Politico
The AI doom scenario you've never heard of may be hardest to stop
Capability · CBS News
Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
Capability · TechCrunch
Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life
Capability · TechCrunch
Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago
Capability · TechCrunch
Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
Markets · TechCrunch
Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
Capability · MIT Technology Review
“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world
Capability · MIT Technology Review
AI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their work
Capability · Ars Technica
People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
Capability · TechCrunch
Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs
Markets · TechCrunch
Submit a question: Could Anthropic’s IPO be a turning point for AI?
Markets · Financial Times
Calls to strengthen workplace privacy in Australia as employers turn to AI to track staff
Capability · The Guardian
AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for ‘public good’
Markets · The Guardian
Video briefings
This is the new ChatGPT Voice, powered by GPT Live
OpenAI · 1.8K views
This is the new ChatGPT Voice, powered by GPT Live
OpenAI · 1.3K views
This is the new ChatGPT Voice, powered by GPT Live
OpenAI · 1.9K views
Put your dot on call
OpenAI · 137K views
How teams can automate recurring tasks with ChatGPT
OpenAI · 25.6K views
Build more personal sites with Codex
OpenAI · 96.7K views
From Punch Cards to AI Software Factories
Matthew Berman · 3.6K views
GPT-Live-1.1 has new voices and better accents.
OpenAI · 177K views
Weeks to Hours: SentinelOne on Cybersecurity Research with OpenAI
OpenAI · 12K views
Google just went FRONTIER (Gemini 4 Argon)
Matthew Berman · 99.1K views
OpenAI Employee Arrested Over Recording Device
Matthew Berman · 85.3K views
OpenAI’s New AI Is Doing Things We Barely Understand
Two Minute Papers · 339K views
AI Labs Warn Race Makes Breach ‘Inevitable’
AI Explained · 147K views
I'm Rebuilding Super Mario World With AI
Matthew Berman · 12.6K views
DeepSeek Solved AI’s Memory Problem
Two Minute Papers · 325K views
AI Is Recreating Photoshop and Other Adobe Apps
Matthew Berman · 123K views
DeepMind's New AI Just Cracked The Code Of Life
Two Minute Papers · 151K views
The Billion Dollar AI Advantage Is Disappearing
Two Minute Papers · 165K views
Papers
Where is Physical RSI capability from? An Observational Scaling Law of LLM-as-policy
arXiv:2610.26848 · Li, Z. et al.
HarnessPro: Recursive Harness Self-Improvement with Pareto Optimization for Performance-Cost Trade-offs
arXiv:2610.26770 · Pan, Z. et al.
BetaMem: Learning to Remember a Changing World for Embodied Agents
arXiv:2610.26554 · Liu, M. et al.
VibeTraining-Bench: Data-Trainer-Harness Co-Design for Iterative System Improvement
arXiv:2610.26342 · Peng, R. et al.
EmbodiedWorld-200K: Toward Embodied World Agents via Embodied-Planning Dataset and Interactive World Models
arXiv:2610.25959 · Feng, X. et al.
SAPO: Self-Supervised Attention Policy Optimization for Improving Temporal Video Grounding in Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2610.25923 · Chen, Z. et al.
Compile Once, Run Cheap: Frozen, Portable Skills for Embodied Agents, and What Recursive Self-Improvement Adds
arXiv:2610.25114 · Bai, J. et al.
CoEvo-RSI: When Harnesses Evolve, Which Models Should Follow?
arXiv:2610.25078 · Su, J. et al.
Learning to Compose: Recursive Self-Improvement of Shared Executable Stacks for Zero-Shot Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2610.24464 · Chen, Y. et al.
MELD: Recursive Self-Improvement via Hierarchical Coordination for Multi-Agent Scientific Discovery
arXiv:2610.24454 · Tang, S. et al.
Language Models Learn to Improve Language Models
arXiv:2610.23344 · Lin, M. et al.
InstAgent: A Recursively Self-Improving Agent Operating System for Heterogeneous Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2610.23098 · Luo, H. et al.
Self-Evolving Coding Agents via Harness-Policy Optimization
arXiv:2610.22791 · Wei, Z. et al.
Can LLMs predict the outcomes of machine learning experiments?
arXiv:2610.22599 · Bansal, A. et al.
MLExpert: Towards a Generalist Agentic Model for Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering
arXiv:2610.22344 · Du, S. et al.
Lab notes
Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar
Microsoft Research
Apertus 1.5 Release Notes
Hugging Face