🤯 Google DeepMind may have reached RSI

Rumors are spreading fast that Google DeepMind has achieved recursive self-improvement (RSI), with Lyra, part of a large and closely followed AI leaker community among those fueling the claims.

But there’s more behind this than a single leak.

Google has said Demis Hassabis will give his “full attention” to shaping AGI. Reuters also reported in August that Sergey Brin was directing resources toward recursive self-improvement, while DeepMind’s strategy chief has described RSI as a key part of the AI investment thesis.

None of this confirms that DeepMind has actually reached RSI. But taken together, it makes the rumors considerably harder to dismiss as pure speculation.

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🤖 OpenAI’s Bel may be ahead of the ASI countdown

OpenAI’s internal model Bel appears to be outperforming the timeline predicted by the “AI 2027” scenario.

After reportedly solving the Navier–Stokes problem, Bel is estimated to have reached around 80 hours of effective research progress, a figure that puts it ahead of the projection’s expected pace.

If the estimate holds, AI systems may be progressing toward autonomous research capabilities faster than the AI 2027 forecast anticipated.

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❗️Terence Tao and friends aren’t happy

Mathematicians who have spent decades wrestling with some of the hardest problems in the field are understandably not thrilled about AI suddenly showing up and solving them.

Apparently, spending your entire life trying to crack impossible math problems only for an AI to walk in and do it is not everyone’s idea of progress.

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Is history repeating itself? 🤔

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❗️Dario Amodei just published a new essay on the future of AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has published a new essay, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” arguing that the AI industry may need to deliberately slow the pace of frontier development before AI progress starts moving faster than our ability to control it.

His concern is that AI is increasingly being used to accelerate AI research itself. Once that feedback loop becomes powerful enough, capability gains could compound rapidly, leaving safety research struggling to keep up.

Amodei isn’t calling for an AI pause or a halt to development. Instead, he argues for “pacing” the frontier, creating checkpoints where increasingly capable AI systems have to meet specific safety requirements before development continues.

His proposals include independent third-party evaluators with deep access to frontier labs, coordination between democratic governments, and eventually international agreements around the most powerful AI systems.

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Sam Altman agrees with Dario Amodei on his proposal to pace frontier AI development.

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⚠️ Meta AI got way too personal

A Utah mom says Meta AI crossed a serious privacy line after she posted a simple video of herself singing in the car with one of her young daughters.

The AI suggested a question asking who the child in the backseat was. When she clicked it, Meta AI reportedly started pulling together information about both of her daughters including their names, birth details, photos, videos, interests and even details about their schooling.

It allegedly went further. Meta AI suggested asking where the mother lived, then began piecing together old and recent posts to narrow down her location.

The mother says the AI surfaced a photo of her daughter that she had deleted years ago.

Meta says its AI can search content a user already has access to, along with public information on the web. But the company admitted the suggested prompts “missed the mark” and said the issue has been fixed.

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Mark Zuckerberg says AI is “not moving fast enough”

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🥺 Sam Altman says OpenAI would melt all its GPUs if that’s what it took to keep humanity alive

He doesn't expect it to come to that. He does expect to pause more than once.

"I think there will be many places along the way where we have to say, we are pausing, we're going to redirect our efforts into safety alignment before we go to that next level."

"I don't think we're ever personally going to get to the point we have to say melt all the GPUs. But if we had to do something like that to ensure the continued existence of humanity, easy yes."

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❗️Palantir CEO Alex Karp says people arguing we should pause AI development are not living in reality and de facto saying we should let our enemies win:

"If we didn't have adversaries, I would be very in favor of pausing this technology completely, but we do.”

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Bryan Johnson on X.

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Astra didn’t just generate a virtual violin, it built a working simulation of the instrument and taught itself how to play it.

The model is now refining its musical abilities through practice, and has even started experimenting with composing original music.

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Everyday we get closer to this scene.

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🗣Dario Amodei finally talks about Jacob Coxon's post:

“I agree with Jacob much more than I disagree with him.”

“When he left, he said, ‘I think Anthropic is the most responsible player. I think Anthropic is the most aware of these issues.’

"He wasn’t calling out us. He was calling out the dynamic of the industry as a whole moving too fast.”

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😎 Sam Altman revealed what surprised him most about the people building AI.

Some are driven by doing the right thing no matter what it costs them. Some are driven entirely by "ego and power and FOMO." A lot of them, he says, have no idea which one they are.

"A surprising number of people, for good or for bad, are totally oblivious to their own motivations. I would have assumed that was much smaller."

He was surprised about himself too.

"You really can get used to almost anything. That is a remarkable human ability. He said the job taught him to take things less personally and "not get too high or too low or go too crazy."

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😎 Sam Altman says a sit-down with Dario Amodei and Elon Musk on AI safety "will happen."

Interviewer:

"Why can't you all just get in a room, get some beers, and figure out how to solve humanity?"

Altman:

"I think that will happen. I'm not gonna pre-announce private discussions."

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❗️Bernie Sanders says US President Trump "appears to know absolutely nothing about AI and the dangers of AI."

He urged Trump to sit down with China's President Xi and agree on a global moratorium on superintelligent AI before the upcoming bilateral meeting.

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🇺🇸 Trump rejected the AI slowdown push

President Trump has now made his position clear: the U.S. is not slowing down frontier AI.

Speaking in Ireland, Trump dismissed calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk to pace the development of increasingly powerful AI systems.

His argument is straightforward: the U.S. is ahead of China, and he wants to keep it that way.

“Whoever wins AI wins.”

Trump said some guardrails could be introduced, but brushed aside more serious safety warnings as coming from “very negative forces” talking about things he believes “won’t happen.”

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