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OpenAI warns that recursive self-improvement could accelerate beyond our collective ability to understand progress, assess risks and maintain meaningful human oversight.

Qwen-Image-2.1 ranks first among open models with 1228 points and 17th overall, 4 points behind nano-banana-pro.

Nathan Lambert talks with Epoch AI's DataGen about predictions for recursive self-improvement, robotics in AI acceleration, how far behind Chinese models are, and the role of distillation.

Bloomberg reports Harvey's costs for renting OpenAI and Anthropic models rose sharply, with gross margin falling from about 50% to -50% by June after agent usage grew 20x.

Stanford researchers, including Myra Cheng and Dan Jurafsky, traced how people hand their judgment over to AI, and found most of them have no idea they are doing it.

Figure published the full four hours of a robot running zero-shot tasks in 30 rental homes, rather than only clips of successful runs.