In the News: September 17, 2026
A Google/DeepMind paper reports measured gains from a self-improving coding-agent exploration layer, and a new roadmap defines what "genuine" RSI requires.
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Dream-RSI rewrites a coding agent's exploration policy
In a large search space, a fixed exploration strategy stops adapting as the space grows, while tuning the strategy online consumes a full discovery run for every policy test. Dream-RSI treats a coding agent's history, the record of what…
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A 35-author roadmap defines five levels of recursive self-improvement
The survey builds a five-level autonomy framework, running from a system that executes human-specified updates to one that revises the mechanisms governing its own future improvement, and uses it to classify existing work. The Darwin…
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