Coverage
21 Oct 2026
Super Intelligence (SI) news, papers, lab posts and video briefings from 21 Oct 2026, newest first. Every item links to its source.
Articles
The $15bn ‘viral’ AI start-up changing how American doctors treat patients
Capability · Financial Times
DeepSeek Unveils Open-Source Tool to Help Cut AI Operating Costs
Capability · Bloomberg
China Criticizes U.S. Ban on DeepSeek A.I. in Government Systems
Policy · The New York Times
OpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems
Labs · Financial Times
SpaceX and Tesla boards explore potential merger
Capability · Financial Times
The AI doom scenario you've never heard of may be hardest to stop
Capability · CBS News
How Two Colorado House Candidates Are Thinking About AI
Capability · The New York Times
SpaceX Swings to a Profit, as A.I. Business Grows
Markets · The New York Times
Google’s more personalized Gemini AI is heading to your car
Labs · The Verge
Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy
Labs · TechCrunch
Submit a question: Could Anthropic’s IPO be a turning point for AI?
Markets · Financial Times
SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations
Capability · TechCrunch
OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio to beef up its biotech business
Markets · TechCrunch
Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash
Labs · Ars Technica
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wins dismissal of sister's lawsuit
Labs · BBC News
Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers
Markets · TechCrunch
ChatGPT now lets you lock your chats
Labs · TechCrunch
Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs
Labs · Ars Technica
Ex-Nvidia-turned-VC Amulya Vishwanath: ‘Physical AI is in its LEGO era’
Markets · TechCrunch
Could this be a Deep Blue moment for the cryptic crossword?
Capability · The Guardian
The new economics of enterprise AI
Capability · MIT Technology Review
Spotify pulled 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations
Capability · The Verge
Adobe Lightroom mobile can now open closed eyes in photos with a simple tap
Capability · The Verge
I’m a CTO. AI still needs your human expertise | Madhu Shashanka
Capability · The Guardian
‘These risks are real’: the threat of AI bioweapons - video
Safety · The Guardian
AI adoption by industry shows what other sectors can learn
Capability · MIT Technology Review
What if an AI bubble bursts, and that accelerates AI job losses?
Capability · NPR
A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub
Capability · MIT Technology Review
As lame-duck battle over chips heats up, OpenAI pulls back
Markets · Politico
The roots of AI fear in the West are cultural, not technological
Capability · New Scientist
South Korean data centre builder tumbles 32% on trading debut
Markets · Financial Times
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
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
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
Cache Engineering for Agents
arXiv:2610.28577 · Fu, T. et al.
ChartEvo: Self-Evolving Agent Harnesses for Long-Tail Chart Reasoning
arXiv:2610.28282 · Wang, Q. et al.
MaD-RSI: Model-as-Data for Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses
arXiv:2610.28201 · Cui, Y. et al.
Elicitation or Expansion? Demystifying Gains from Agent Harness Optimization
arXiv:2610.27889 · Kim, Y. et al.
RSI Control: Can AI Models Perform Covert Sabotage in the Self-Improvement Process?
arXiv:2610.27735 · Zhou, K. et al.
Auditing the Product, Not the Recursion: The Evaluation Evidence Behind Recursive Self-Improvement Claims
arXiv:2610.27610 · Chen, Z. et al.
Where is Physical RSI capability from? An Observational Scaling Law of LLM-as-policy
arXiv:2610.26848 · Li, Z. et al.
Physical AI: Concepts, Techniques, and Challenges
arXiv:2610.27045 · Zhang, W. 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.
Lab notes
Hugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively
Hugging Face
MPS in PyTorch 2.15
Hugging Face
Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar
Microsoft Research