Coverage
31 Oct 2026
Super Intelligence (SI) news, papers, lab posts and video briefings from 31 Oct 2026, newest first. Every item links to its source.
Articles
OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target
Labs · The Wall Street Journal
Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia
Markets · TechCrunch
OpenAI slashes funding target by $10bn as tech anxieties mount
Markets · Financial Times
Big Tech’s Data Center Blitz Is Burning Through Cash and Scaring Wall St.
Markets · The New York Times
Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down
Capability · TechCrunch
Anthropic’s I.P.O.: Why the Stakes Are So High
Labs · The New York Times
How Healthy Is Anthropic’s Business?
Labs · The New York Times
Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
Policy · TechCrunch
Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Markets · Ars Technica
Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds
Capability · TechCrunch
Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom
Capability · TechCrunch
Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Is Just the Start of a Risky New Era
Safety · The New York Times
US tech stocks tumble as concerns over AI spending intensify
Markets · Financial Times
Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
Labs · Ars Technica
Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk
Markets · The Verge
Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating, but his own AI use cost him his job
Capability · Ars Technica
US tech stocks see sharp falls as AI spending nears $1tn
Markets · BBC News
The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
Capability · The Verge
Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
Capability · Ars Technica
Tech sell-off drives US markets down by nearly $1tn after subpar earnings reports
Markets · The Guardian
Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says
Markets · Financial Times
Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text
Capability · TechCrunch
Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
Capability · Ars Technica
Starbucks wants to use AI to show you a ‘personalized digital menu’ at the drive-thru
Capability · The Verge
Credit where it’s due to AI for uncovering the PHP flaw - and discredit to the leaker | Letters
Capability · The Guardian
Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
Markets · TechCrunch
Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
Capability · Ars Technica
Ghost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernatural
Capability · The Guardian
DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents
Capability · TechCrunch
Did Anthropic value itself at $1.2tn in August?
Labs · Financial Times
Newsom special session AI
Capability · Politico
Are We in an A.I. Bubble? We’re About to Find Out.
Capability · The New York Times
Big Tech sheds nearly $900bn in rout over soaring AI spending
Capability · Financial Times
AI and Leadership
Capability · Financial Times
Video briefings
Why CoreWeave is in the crosshairs of the AI selloff
CNBC Television · 5.7K views
Wall Street is awaiting Anthropic's IPO, and more AI news you may have missed this week
CNBC Television · 1.7K views
AI’s bottleneck isn’t compute. It’s geometry.
Dwarkesh Patel · 325K views
Papers
Efficient Scalable Oversight via Rewinding
arXiv:2610.40535 · Guan, Z. et al.
Video Generation Meets Agent Harness: Agentic Video Generation, Agentic World Modeling and Recursive Self-Improvement
arXiv:2610.40191 · Fan, L. et al.
The Role of Self-Concept In Language Models
arXiv:2610.39795 · Hao, Y. et al.
Does Scaling Toward AGI Depend on What System-1 Lets System-2 Execute?
arXiv:2610.39497 · Wang, Q. et al.
Try Before You Evolve: Ranking-Scored Trials for Recursive Self-Improvement of Recommender Systems
arXiv:2610.39352 · Huang, X. et al.
From Grind to Grasp
arXiv:2610.38728 · Sunehag, P.
A-RSI: Adaptive Task Refresh for Zero-Data Multimodal Self-Improvement
arXiv:2610.38568 · Liu, Y. et al.
Recursive Self-Improvement in Physical AI: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Evaluation
arXiv:2610.38266 · Han, X. et al.
AudioRSI: Recursively Self-Improving Audio Reasoners
arXiv:2610.36578 · Fan, J. et al.
The Trinity:Capability-Driven Recursive Self-Improvement for Multimodal Agents
arXiv:2610.36077 · Tang, W. et al.
OmniBrain-0: A Unified Agentic Model for Embodied Intelligence
arXiv:2610.36013 · Team, X. et al.
Skill$^{\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
nemotron-halloween
Hugging Face
Microsoft Research Focus - Edition #97
Microsoft Research
Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model
Google DeepMind
Build specialized multimodal models with LFM3
Hugging Face