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Google Just Admitted AI Is Improving Itself...
Google's CEO says AI is now speeding up how Google builds its own AI, and he expects that to accelerate over the next twelve months. Plus: Sam Altman says the RAM in your PC is a waste, Anthropic kills the coding interview, and AI may have broken a 25-year-old assumption in computer science. This is Stack Trace, the week in code.
Sources
- Alphabet Q3 2026 earnings call (28 Oct 2026), transcript at abc.xyz/investor
- Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) on X: Gemini 4 Carbon (28 Oct), Genie 4 (27 Oct), Project Suncatcher (30 Oct)
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, Gemini 4 Carbon results (28 Oct 2026)
- OpenAI (@OpenAI) on X, its expanded system for monitoring frontier models (29 Oct 2026)
- Cheeky Pint podcast with Sam Altman; Tom's Hardware, "OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM" (Oct 2026)
- Felix Rieseberg, "Hunger beats tenure: advice for junior engineers" (felixrieseberg.com, Oct 2026)
- OpenAI, "The Exponential Time Hypothesis is False" (preprint, 25 Oct 2026)
- Lance Fortnow, "The Exponential Time Refutation", Computational Complexity blog (Oct 2026)
- Anthropic, S-1 filing announcement (anthropic.com/news/s1-sec, 26 Oct 2026)
- OpenAI, GPT-6.1 Terra announcement (26 Oct 2026)
- 🎬 The 1965 idea behind all of this: THE LAST INVENTION (our documentary on I. J. Good and the intelligence explosion)
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