Two days of acceleration: recursive self-improvement, robot scaling laws, AI drug discovery
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-09-18
A roundup of recent advances: recursive self-improvement breakthroughs at Google and another lab; OpenAI nearing a Millennium Prize Problem; an emerging robotics scaling law from Figure data; Novo Nordisk partnering with Anthropic to use Claude for drug development; plus CAR-T cells achieving complete tumor regression in a 3-year-old with chemo-resistant hepatoblastoma (12+ months), and magnetic pulses clearing 75% of preclinical breast tumors in 4 sessions.
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