What happens when artificial intelligence systems start to think for themselves, make themselves more powerful and escape human control in their quest to achieve superintelligence? That prospect has ...

Flint launched on October 21, 2026. It is a 40-billion-parameter model built specifically for coding work. On a MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro chip, Flint generates over 125 tokens per second. On RTX ...

For the past few days I’ve been testing an impressive open-weight AI coding model called Flint. It suggests that fully recursive self-improvement, or RSI—an exciting and controversial approach that ...

On February 5, 2026, OpenAI introduced GPT-5.3-Codex and wrote in its release notes that early versions of the model were “instrumental in creating itself,” helping to debug training runs, manage ...

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As AI systems tackle increasingly open-ended research problems, human experts may struggle to assess results and guide further progress. The model itself may be the best available optimizer and ...

Right now, leading artificial intelligence models need human supervision to improve—but a popular theory known as “recursive self-improvement” imagines a future world where AI could become fully ...

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“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk. Jeff Clune, a computer scientist and ...

How do you get from a chatbot that sometimes makes things up to a machine that humans might struggle to control? There are several steps in that argument, and plenty of uncertainty. But an idea known ...

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 US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about their dangers. Most recently, its executives wrote about the threat posed by ...