The Recursive

US Congressman Ro Khanna is preparing to introduce an AI safety bill that would ban the development of 'recursive' artificial intelligence — systems that improve themselves — until adequate safeguards exist. The proposal adds to a growing debate in Washington over how to regulate advanced AI, with lawmakers weighing innovation against risks from systems that could evolve beyond human oversight.

A new report on frontier artificial intelligence and the prospects of an intelligence explosion is drawing attention, examining how rapidly advancing AI systems may approach or exceed human-level capabilities. Readers are weighing the report's arguments about the pace of AI progress, the risks of recursive self-improvement, and what policymakers and researchers should do to prepare for powerful systems.

A developer blog post examines whether the Unix copy command's recursive flag should be written as lowercase -r or uppercase -R. The two flags have subtly different histories and behaviours across POSIX systems, and the post walks through which one is portable and safe to use in scripts.

Former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher appeared on Peter Diamandis' show to discuss timelines for artificial superintelligence and recursive self-improvement. The conversation also covered Congressman Ro Khanna's proposal to ban recursive AI systems and Tavus' work on AI that can pass a Turing test. The discussion touches on how quickly machines could begin improving themselves and what policy responses might follow.

Alex Zhang, a PhD researcher at MIT, gave a podcast interview about recursive language models, or RLMs, an idea in large language model research where a model can call on itself or smaller instances of itself while reasoning. The discussion covers how such recursion could help AI agents handle longer, more complex tasks in programming and software development.

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk-style report from casp.ac examines frontier artificial intelligence and the prospect of an intelligence explosion, laying out how rapidly improving AI systems could accelerate further development. Readers in tech circles are sharing the report and debating its arguments about how close advanced AI may be to recursive self-improvement.

A filmmaker has staged scenes where characters position monitors so the recursive Droste effect lets them glimpse events in the future and past, with identical scenes repeating from slightly different perspectives and intervals. The footage is edited so the repetitions appear as one continuous shot. Viewers are sharing clips and praising the inventive staging and editing trick.

A developer has released Raven on GitHub, describing it as 'the harness of harnesses, built for RSI' — recursive self-improvement in AI systems. The tool, from EverMind-AI, is presented as a layer that coordinates multiple evaluation or agent harnesses. It drew quick attention on Hacker News, where commenters were probing how it works and what it actually automates.

A technical blog post by Arthur O'Dwyer examines how recursive invocations of GNU make interact with the -j parallel jobs flag, a long-standing source of subtle build-system bugs. Developers are discussing why parallel jobs can misbehave when a makefile recursively calls make, and what workarounds exist. The piece has drawn attention from programmers interested in build tooling.

VIDRAFT, a South Korean AI startup, has released Darwin-180B-RSI, a 180-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that applies recursive self-improvement (RSI) technology. The company says the model has achieved first place across five math, science and multimodal reasoning benchmarks. The release is drawing attention among AI and open-source communities for its claimed self-improvement capabilities and benchmark performance.

Recursion Pharmaceuticals (RXRX) is appearing on finance watchlists, with Yahoo Finance tracking its stock price, quotes and history. The clinical-stage biotech, which uses AI in drug discovery, is being followed by investors looking for updates on its share performance and company news.