26 October 2026updated 23 October
Google CEO says AI self-improvement is still far from complete
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- Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, says AI systems have not yet reached full recursive self-improvement, where AI fully designs its own successors.
- He says AI agents already help build the next generation of models, so the process is partly underway but far from finished.
- The remarks came in an interview on the Big Technology Podcast, a show about the tech industry.
Our read
Only one of the 30 tracked newsletters, Big Technology, covered this story, which is the outlet where the remarks were made. Our archive already holds two earlier Pichai self-improvement stories, dated 2026-10-21 and 2026-10-25, so this is the third in the thread.
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Pichai's view on recursive self-improvement, AI agents helping researchers, and the interview's transcript and podcast links