23 October 2026
Google CEO says AI self-improvement remains far away
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- Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is still far from fully improving itself without people.
- He notes AI already helps build its own successor models, but that is different from full self-improvement.
- Pichai says real shortages of computing power exist and can push teams toward new ideas.
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Only one of 30 newsletters, Big Technology, covered this, first reporting it on 2026-10-23. It follows Google's Pichai and a new paper addressing AI self-improvement and safety, which our archive logged on 2026-10-21.
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