Coverage
26 Oct 2026
Super Intelligence (SI) news, papers, lab posts and video briefings from 26 Oct 2026, newest first. Every item links to its source.
Articles
We need to know if AI agents are accessing British services
Capability · Financial Times
If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay
Capability · The Economist
Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’
Labs · TechCrunch
Owners of Elvis Presley’s Music Sue Anthropic for Copyright Infringement
Labs · The New York Times
China increasingly depends on copying American AI
Capability · The Economist
AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says
Capability · TechCrunch
The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about
Capability · TechCrunch
Neighbours is being recut into a microdrama focused on Margot Robbie - and her co-stars aren’t happy
Capability · The Guardian
The A.I. Boom Looks a Lot Like the Housing Bubble
Capability · The New York Times
r/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and more
Capability · The Verge
Turning an Academic Slump Around
Capability · The New York Times
Google’s AI search changes upended online publishing
Labs · The Verge
Why students in a midterm battleground fear AI will ruin their future
Capability · Financial Times
Blue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AI
Capability · The Verge
‘Synthetic twin’: Why Socceroo Cristian Volpato is the latest footballer to license his AI clone
Capability · The Guardian
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
Markets · TechCrunch
Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads
Capability · The Verge
AI models may not be so opaque after all
Labs · The Economist
Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
Capability · TechCrunch
The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Capability · Wired
The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle
Capability · The Guardian
Blue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom
Capability · The Guardian
What a day in customer service looks like, as AI changes everything
Capability · CNBC
Pegasus spyware founder urges governments to trust his tech and ditch US AI
Policy · Financial Times
The money questions children ask AI chatbots
Capability · Financial Times
UK to invest £100m in 'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab
Markets · BBC News
UK sets up AI lab to monitor biosecurity threats
Labs · Financial Times
OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access
Labs · The Verge
Texas sues OpenAI, Sam Altman over product safety
Safety · Politico
‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking
Capability · The Guardian
Managing a new world of bots and bargain hunters
Capability · Financial Times
Unauthorized AI agents detected inside accounts at major banks
Capability · CBS News
What is PHP and why did it spark a global cyber-security scramble?
Capability · BBC News
Video briefings
Why CoreWeave is in the crosshairs of the AI selloff
CNBC Television · 5.7K views
Wall Street is awaiting Anthropic's IPO, and more AI news you may have missed this week
CNBC Television · 1.7K views
AI’s bottleneck isn’t compute. It’s geometry.
Dwarkesh Patel · 325K views
Papers
Superintelligent Software Engineering: Governance That Scales with Capability
arXiv:2610.31306 · Gholinejad, M.
HGM-Dual: Lineage-Aware Guided Agent Harness Optimization for Long-Horizon Planning
arXiv:2610.30042 · Paul, S. et al.
Evolving with Open Worlds: Towards Recursive Self-Improvement for Future Forecasting
arXiv:2610.29784 · Chen, Z. et al.
Toward Recursive Self-Improvement in Physical AI
arXiv:2610.29677 · Luo, M. et al.
Recursive Code Evolution for Task-Oriented Semantic Communications
arXiv:2610.29641 · Gong, Y. et al.
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.
Lab notes
Setting the Scene (Public v1; October 25)
Alignment Forum
Does Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up
Hugging Face
Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types
Google DeepMind
Monitorability evaluations and policy proposals
Alignment Forum
What FDE means at OpenAI
OpenAI