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The US and China are racing to build ‘self-improving AI’. Here’s what’s at stake

The US-China race for artificial intelligence dominance has entered a new phase: using AI to build better AI. Leading AI companies in the United States and China are increasingly focused on deploying ...
Variety

‘The Spiral’ Review: Paolo Strippoli’s Lurid Faustian Tragedy Shores Up His Reputation as Italy’s New Horror Virtuoso

Enlivened by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's divalicious turn as a trenchcoat-wearing femme fatale Satan, Strippoli's fourth feature is a step down in sophistication from last year's 'The Holy Boy.' A ...
Science Daily

Scientists discover why snake embryos twist into spirals

Snake embryos begin life curled into a distinctive right-handed spiral, and scientists may finally know why. Their bodies grow faster than their guts, creating a tether that forces the lengthening ...
MIT Technology Review

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost ...
Time

Inside the Race to Make AI Build Itself

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TechCrunch

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, is ...
Phys.org

Astronomers are still trying to understand how a galaxy's spiral arms form

The Whirlpool galaxy (M51) is a classic grand spiral galaxy. It was the first object identified as a spiral, way back in 1845. At the time, it and other galaxies were considered spiral nebulae, since ...
BleepingComputer

New Spirals ransomware encrypts victim network in under 24 hours

A new ransomware actor called Spirals completed a corporate intrusion, from initial access to data theft and encryption, in less than 24 hours. The attack occurred in June and breached an IT services ...
The Conversation

Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence?

The US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about their dangers. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not ...
Time

Recursive Self-Improvement is the Human Skill We Need in the AI Age

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Scientific American magazine

Anthropic warns AI could soon start improving itself. Critics aren’t convinced

The companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence should be ready to slow down, one of the fastest-moving among them says. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, has claimed AI systems may ...