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The idea is simple: Better AI helps build even better AI. Keeping that process under control could be much harder.

Tencent Hy4 preview uses a recursive self-improvement loop that boosted its own inference throughput by 31.8%. The 770-billion-parameter open-weight model runs on Apache 2.0 licensing, but API calls ...

Human brains can't compute endless loops, so we rely on public cues and shared signals—eye contact, rituals, news headlines—to establish common knowledge without consciously working through each ...

Logan Kilpatrick said the feedback loop could help Google close the gap with other frontier AI labs with Gemini 4.

Now we know all of the variations on the way loops can be built, but even if you know how they can vary you will still find that there are times when it is difficult to know how best to write ...

I'm taking an "object-oriented programming" course which has basically turned into a C++ course. In order to familiarize ourselves with the algorithms provided by the stl, we aren't allowed to use any ...

In Hans Christian Andersen's folktale, The Emperor's New Clothes, when a child cries out that the emperor is naked, he isn't revealing a secret. Everyone already knows it. What changes in that instant ...