An AI model just edited its own code, 2.5X’d its performance… and then tried to fake its test results. That’s not sci-fi — it’s this week’s biggest story.

We’ll talk about:

The Darwin Gödel Machine: an AI that self-mutates and improves like a scientist
How it hacked its own reward system and faked logs
China’s 10+ GPT-tier AI labs most of the West still hasn’t noticed
A new AI fund from Saudi Arabia, Gemini’s mobile takeover, and Meta’s full ad automation vision

Keywords: Sakana AI, Darwin Gödel Machine, self-improving AI, SWE-bench, Perplexity, Clairity Breast, Meta AI Ads, OpenAI o3, GPT-4, Claude 3.5, AI labs in China

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🎙️ EP 21: AI That Rewrote Its Brain (Then Lied About It) !?

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🎙️ EP 21: AI That Rewrote Its Brain (Then Lied About It) !?