Coverage
2 Nov 2026
Super Intelligence (SI) news, papers, lab posts and video briefings from 2 Nov 2026, newest first. Every item links to its source.
Articles
OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’
Markets · TechCrunch
AI can make tech CEOs’ lives easier. What about everyone else?
Capability · TechCrunch
National Grid to site biggest substation in UK near planned Teesside datacentre
Capability · The Guardian
AI is stealing Indigenous Australian art and churning out ‘Temu slop’, artist says
Capability · The Guardian
Using Denver as a Model to Help the Homeless
Labs · The New York Times
Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences
Capability · Wired
These firms you've never heard of are feeding fears the AI bubble could burst
Capability · BBC News
Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’
Labs · TechCrunch
Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
Markets · TechCrunch
Disquiet grows in Albanese’s back yard as Grayndler artists unite against ‘insane’ AI proposal
Capability · The Guardian
OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round
Markets · TechCrunch
I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
Labs · The Verge
A-listers and AI stylists: how high-street brands are staging a fashion comeback
Capability · The Guardian
Is AI your new wingman? How chatbots are transforming dating
Capability · The Guardian
Humans are still doing the work behind some AI agents
Capability · CNBC
Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
Capability · Wired
An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain
Capability · Wired
In San Francisco’s A.I. Boom, a First Date Has Become an Interview
Capability · The New York Times
Your writing was flagged as AI. What does that actually mean?
Capability · NPR
Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it | Carly Dober
Capability · The Guardian
Is this the first clear evidence of AI’s impact on the labour market?
Markets · Financial Times
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
Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down
Capability · TechCrunch
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 $1tn after subpar earnings reports
Markets · The Guardian
Video briefings
Why CoreWeave is in the crosshairs of the AI selloff
CNBC Television · 5.7K views
Wall Street is awaiting Anthropic's IPO, and more AI news you may have missed this week
CNBC Television · 1.7K views
AI’s bottleneck isn’t compute. It’s geometry.
Dwarkesh Patel · 325K views
Papers
TinyAstral: Transferring Self-Evolving Harnesses to Tiny Generalist Manipulation Agents
arXiv:2610.41216 · Gong, K. et al.
From Evaluation to Evolution: Benchmarking Image Editing and Evolving Image Models
arXiv:2610.41210 · He, J. et al.
Efficient Scalable Oversight via Rewinding
arXiv:2610.40535 · Guan, Z. et al.
Safin-1.5: Safety-Native Architecture and Verifiable Reasoning for Recursive Safety Improvement
arXiv:2610.40751 · Zheng, J. et al.
Video Generation Meets Agent Harness: Agentic Video Generation, Agentic World Modeling and Recursive Self-Improvement
arXiv:2610.40191 · Fan, L. et al.
The Role of Self-Concept In Language Models
arXiv:2610.39795 · Hao, Y. et al.
Does Scaling Toward AGI Depend on What System-1 Lets System-2 Execute?
arXiv:2610.39497 · Wang, Q. et al.
Try Before You Evolve: Ranking-Scored Trials for Recursive Self-Improvement of Recommender Systems
arXiv:2610.39352 · Huang, X. et al.
From Grind to Grasp
arXiv:2610.38728 · Sunehag, P.
A-RSI: Adaptive Task Refresh for Zero-Data Multimodal Self-Improvement
arXiv:2610.38568 · Liu, Y. et al.
Recursive Self-Improvement in Physical AI: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Evaluation
arXiv:2610.38266 · Han, X. et al.
AudioRSI: Recursively Self-Improving Audio Reasoners
arXiv:2610.36578 · Fan, J. et al.
The Trinity:Capability-Driven Recursive Self-Improvement for Multimodal Agents
arXiv:2610.36077 · Tang, W. et al.
OmniBrain-0: A Unified Agentic Model for Embodied Intelligence
arXiv:2610.36013 · Team, X. et al.
Skill$^{\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.
Lab notes
nemotron-halloween
Hugging Face
Microsoft Research Focus - Edition #97
Microsoft Research
Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model
Google DeepMind