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30 Oct 2026
Super Intelligence (SI) news, papers, lab posts and video briefings from 30 Oct 2026, newest first. Every item links to its source.
Articles
Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute
Labs · The Register
How One Country Became the Unlikely Crossroads of the Global A.I. Boom
Capability · The New York Times
AI and Leadership
Capability · Financial Times
The story of Anthropic in three numbers
Labs · Financial Times
Inside the make-or-break AI mega-project behind Nscale’s $35bn IPO
Markets · Financial Times
AI agents free up CEOs’ time to think ahead
Capability · Financial Times
How best to avoid a bad AI rollout
Capability · Financial Times
How leaders can adapt to an unknowable AI future
Capability · Financial Times
Judgment replaces expertise for leaders in the age of AI
Capability · Financial Times
AI tools aim to support staff without judgment
Capability · Financial Times
Executives play catch-up as AI governance risks evolve
Safety · Financial Times
Alphabet’s brutal day on the stock market
Markets · Financial Times
Global tech rout deepens as US earnings stoke AI spending fears
Markets · Financial Times
Big Tech’s Data Center Blitz Is Burning Through Cash and Scaring Wall St.
Markets · The New York Times
You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work
Capability · TechCrunch
AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.
Capability · TechCrunch
More than half of Victorian lawyers use AI - but only a quarter have cut client fees as a result
Capability · The Guardian
Intel’s Shares Plunge 20% as A.I. Hinders Some Parts of Its Business
Markets · The New York Times
As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it’s shifting to a logged-in experience
Capability · TechCrunch
Rivian expands joint venture with VW to include AI assistant
Markets · TechCrunch
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT
Labs · TechCrunch
Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch
Labs · TechCrunch
Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads
Labs · Ars Technica
Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs
Labs · The Verge
The NYT Cooking app is testing AI recipe modifications
Capability · The Verge
Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round
Capability · TechCrunch
Anthropic is asking Wall Street to believe in AGI
Labs · The Verge
Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure
Capability · TechCrunch
Who wrote that paper? AI use spurs debate over scientific authorship
Capability · Science
Bodacious A.I. Bots Are Stealing Jokes From Young Female Comedians
Capability · The New York Times
Computerized clairvoyance: psychics push back against AI-generated readings
Capability · The Guardian
We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time
Capability · MIT Technology Review
AI has come for Arizona’s water
Capability · The Verge
I Gave My Blood to the AI Death Clock
Capability · Wired
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
Efficient Scalable Oversight via Rewinding
arXiv:2610.40535 · Guan, Z. et al.
Video Generation Meets Agent Harness: Agentic Video Generation, Agentic World Modeling and Recursive Self-Improvement
arXiv:2610.40191 · Fan, L. et al.
The Role of Self-Concept In Language Models
arXiv:2610.39795 · Hao, Y. et al.
Does Scaling Toward AGI Depend on What System-1 Lets System-2 Execute?
arXiv:2610.39497 · Wang, Q. et al.
Try Before You Evolve: Ranking-Scored Trials for Recursive Self-Improvement of Recommender Systems
arXiv:2610.39352 · Huang, X. et al.
From Grind to Grasp
arXiv:2610.38728 · Sunehag, P.
A-RSI: Adaptive Task Refresh for Zero-Data Multimodal Self-Improvement
arXiv:2610.38568 · Liu, Y. et al.
Recursive Self-Improvement in Physical AI: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Evaluation
arXiv:2610.38266 · Han, X. et al.
AudioRSI: Recursively Self-Improving Audio Reasoners
arXiv:2610.36578 · Fan, J. et al.
The Trinity:Capability-Driven Recursive Self-Improvement for Multimodal Agents
arXiv:2610.36077 · Tang, W. et al.
OmniBrain-0: A Unified Agentic Model for Embodied Intelligence
arXiv:2610.36013 · Team, X. et al.
Skill$^{\infty}$: Recursive Self-Improvement for Agent Skill Optimization
arXiv:2610.35434 · Tao, W. et al.
RSIV-Harness: A Recursive Self-Improvement Harness Framework for Open-Domain Conversational Text-to-Visualization
arXiv:2610.35316 · Lu, J. et al.
Trustworthy Recursive Self-Improvement in the Era of Large Models: Foundation, Risks, Evaluation and Open Challenges
arXiv:2610.35193 · Pu, J. et al.
RobotAgentBench: Towards Open-world Robot Autonomy
arXiv:2610.34649 · Mao, L. et al.
ParetoRSI-Gym: Can AI Agents Improve Language Models Across Multiple Domains?
arXiv:2610.34386 · Wang, H. et al.
Lab notes
Microsoft Research Focus - Edition #97
Microsoft Research
Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model
Google DeepMind
The future of the firm
OpenAI
Build specialized multimodal models with LFM3
Hugging Face
Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation
Google DeepMind