My PC was extremely slow! The culprit was an 'orphan grep process' left behind after a shell timeout

When working on AI agents and bots as a side project, I encounter different kinds of trouble than in my main job. This is the story of how I spent several hours investigating why my development PC ...
Science

How robot dogs see the unseeable: Improving visual interpretability via peering for exploratory robots

In vegetated environments, such as forests, exploratory robots play a vital role in navigating complex, cluttered ...

What is recursive self-improvement? Why AI researchers are worried

AI can help with those tasks. Recursive self-improvement takes that a step further: An AI helps build a successor that is ...
Silver BulletinOpinion

We’re not ready for superpersistent AI

But mostly, they were extremely persistent, a word used multiple times in OpenAI’s own account of the incident. Like the ...
finance.biggo

GPT-6 Astra's Coding Style Sparks Debate: AI-Generated Code Humans Can No Longer Read

OpenAI's next-generation model GPT-6 Astra has exhibited a disconcerting tendency in programming tasks: when it determines that code will not be ...
finance.biggo

John Schulman Says AI's Final Human Job Is Figuring Out What to Want

John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill — sat down with Dwarkesh Patel to argue about why 2036 might ...
Security Boulevard

SloppyRAT: A New Tool For Ransomware Attacks

IntroductionIn June 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz identified a new malware family, tracked as SloppyRAT, that is likely leveraged by a ransomware-related threat actor. ThreatLabz observed SloppyRAT being ...
USA Today

There's an invasive Burmese python in my backyard. Now what do I do?

Burmese pythons are an invasive species causing significant harm to the South Florida ecosystem. The annual Florida Python Challenge encourages hunters to help control the growing python population.
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 ...
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 ...