The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after allThe AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. But a new study suggests it might take a while to get there.Researchers found that AI agents still can’t conduct open-ended AI research—f