Coverage
3 Nov 2026
Super Intelligence (SI) news, papers, lab posts and video briefings from 3 Nov 2026, newest first. Every item links to its source.
Articles
The AI problem we feared is not the AI problem we got
Capability · Financial Times
Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test
Policy · MIT Technology Review
John Ivison: Red flags all over Carney government buy - in of AI company Cohere
Policy · calgaryherald.com
Apple may try to increase revenue by doing…something with third-party AI apps
Markets · TechCrunch
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
Capability · TechCrunch
AI-powered malware ‘highly likely’ to be used to hack UK infrastructure by 2028
Capability · The Guardian
How The New York Times Reviewed 7 Million Words Uttered by Trump
Policy · The New York Times
I treated Sophie as if she were human. The very next day she betrayed me | Hugh Riminton
Capability · The Guardian
Marvell to buy data centre component maker Lumentum in $115bn AI bet
Markets · Financial Times
New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
Capability · TechCrunch
How A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever to Microtarget Voters
Capability · The New York Times
Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones
Labs · The Verge
Anthropic Reveals $17 Billion in Revenue as I.P.O. Approaches
Markets · The New York Times
Driven by A.I. Boom, Marvell and Lumentum Announce $115 Billion Merger
Markets · The New York Times
Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
Labs · Ars Technica
OpenAI pitches data center power plants as a way to protect nearby areas
Markets · The Verge
Inside Anthropic’s Hunt for A.I. Computing Power
Labs · The New York Times
The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls
Capability · The Verge
Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics
Capability · MIT Technology Review
Anthropic reveals $900bn AI spending commitments ahead of IPO
Markets · Financial Times
Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition
Markets · TechCrunch
OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT’s Chat and Work tabs
Labs · TechCrunch
The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"
Capability · simonwillison.net
Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships
Capability · MIT Technology Review
When You Should, and Shouldn’t, Use AI to Search the Web
Capability · Wired
Palantir AI tech unused or little used by 29 NHS trusts said to be benefiting from it
Capability · The Guardian
‘Control and sovereignty’ to shape UK approach to AI
Capability · Financial Times
AI mania can’t survive higher interest rates
Capability · Financial Times
The race to keep AI under control
Capability · Financial Times
National Grid to site biggest substation in UK near planned Teesside datacentre
Capability · The Guardian
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
I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
Labs · The Verge
Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
Capability · Wired
An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain
Capability · Wired
Video briefings
Two AI bots for spam calls and data privacy
Matthew Berman · 2.4K views
Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon
Matthew Berman · 30.1K views
Anthropic’s IPO: Who Gets the Voting Power?
Matthew Berman · 10.3K views
AI’s bottleneck isn’t compute. It’s geometry.
Dwarkesh Patel · 325K views
Papers
CARE: Grounded Recursive Self-Improvement for Production Customer-Service Agents
arXiv:2611.02839 · Jiang, Y. et al.
SelfImprove-Bench: Evaluating Generalization in Self-Improving Agents
arXiv:2611.02797 · Xu, B. et al.
Neuro Inspired Robotics: What Robot Learning Can Borrow from the Sensorimotor Brain
arXiv:2611.02510 · Zhang, R. et al.
NorthCUA Technical Report: Turbocharging Computer-Use Agents through Experience at Scale
arXiv:2611.02102 · Zhang, C. et al.
RSI-Env: An Open-Ended Environment for Recursive Self-Improvement of Agents
arXiv:2611.01736 · Qu, W. et al.
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.
Lab notes
Scaling Git at OpenAI
OpenAI
LifeVal
OpenAI
nemotron-halloween
Hugging Face
Speeding up planning decisions with AI
Google DeepMind
Microsoft Research Focus - Edition #97
Microsoft Research