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5 Nov 2026
Super Intelligence (SI) news, papers, lab posts and video briefings from 5 Nov 2026, newest first. Every item links to its source.
Articles
Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage
Labs · TechCrunch
Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month
Capability · TechCrunch
Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says
Capability · TechCrunch
Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
Markets · TechCrunch
Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
Policy · Ars Technica
Gemini for Home now plugs into AT&T’s smart security system
Labs · The Verge
We Banned Bots From Our Dating Apps. This Is Why.
Capability · The New York Times
Voters Rejected A.I. in the Midterms. Now Comes an Era of Scrutiny.
Capability · The New York Times
Open source AI is booming. Hugging Face explains who profits.
Markets · TechCrunch
DuckDuckGo pitches itself to schools amid backlash over Google’s AI policy
Policy · TechCrunch
Hugging Face’s CEO Says His P(Doom) Is ‘Close to Zero’
Capability · Wired
AI models can tinker with one another’s brains
Labs · The Economist
OpenAI’s approach to mathematics does not add up
Labs · The Economist
Gates says Trump inaction leaves world exposed to AI bioweapons
Policy · Financial Times
ChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs
Labs · The Verge
Jeanette Winterson’s point about AI brings to mind an Isaac Asimov story | Letters
Capability · The Guardian
Uber only fulfilled 4 rides from AI agents last quarter
Capability · The Verge
Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage
Capability · MIT Technology Review
‘Population collapse’ makes AI productivity gains vital, says top Meta executive
Labs · Financial Times
Are we ready for an AI bust?
Capability · Financial Times
Accenture accused of publishing AI paper littered with AI hallucinations
Capability · Financial Times
Oracle cancels $7bn Tencent AI deal under Trump pressure
Policy · Financial Times
AI company’s research deepens mystery of vaults, cells’ strangest particles
Capability · Science
Graduates are managing AI - but are they learning much else?
Capability · BBC News
AI agents enter the ‘wet lab’
Labs · Nature
Google will block search access for schools that ban AI use
Policy · CBS News
AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
Capability · The Guardian
Hackers behind $6.3bn Binance heist ‘used malware and bogus job interviews’
Capability · The Guardian
A chill wind in the AI credit market
Markets · Financial Times
Binance Says Hackers Plotted $6.3 Billion Crypto Heist for Months
Markets · The New York Times
Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
Labs · Ars Technica
Our current AI moment has darker historical echoes
Capability · Financial Times
How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check
Capability · MIT Technology Review
The AI problem we feared is not the AI problem we got
Capability · Financial Times
For early-career scientists, the cost of AI can be a problem
Capability · Science
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
CompressionBench: How can your coding agents compress LLMs?
arXiv:2611.06858 · Zhong, X. et al.
PyRUA-REAL: Robot Exploration and Adaptive Learning through RSI in the Real World
arXiv:2611.06768 · Wang, Q. et al.
Compounding Physical RSI: Turning Execution Failure into Inherited Capability
arXiv:2611.06654 · Yang, Y. et al.
Reglos: A Self-Evolving Personal Memory Agent with Recursive Self-Improvement
arXiv:2611.06049 · Yang, S. et al.
From Autonomous Agents to Cognitive Symbionts: Toward AI-Augmented Human Intelligence
arXiv:2611.05376 · Fei, H.
Route Anything: A Study of Model and Policy Routing for General-Purpose AI Systems
arXiv:2611.05275 · Zhou, P. et al.
BrainwashedLLM: Jailbreaking via Automated Adversarial Chain of Thoughts Discovery
arXiv:2611.04717 · Aghdam, M. et al.
DualEvolve: Dual-Level Self-Evolution of Mechanism and Orchestration for Recommendation
arXiv:2611.04439 · Gao, T. et al.
Weight-Space Programming for Improving Image-Restoration Diffusion Models: Technical Conjectures and a Recursive Improvement Loop
arXiv:2611.04268 · Zheng, Z. et al.
Recursa: Toward Recursively Self-Improving Foundation Model Systems
arXiv:2611.04035 · Zhu, E. et al.
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.
Lab notes
OpenAI: Astra covertly underperforms on safety research
Alignment Forum
Positive and Negative AI Futures
Alignment Forum
Desiderata for the Theory of Agents
Alignment Forum
Introducing Images 2.6
OpenAI
Automating subtle emergent misalignment research
Alignment Forum
Learn the rules: The hacker mindset
Microsoft Research
Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity
Google DeepMind