The Download: how AI is improving itself, and hidden greenhouse gases

MIT Technology Review - AI
Aug 7, 2025 12:10
Rhiannon Williams
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Summary

The article highlights emerging methods by which AI systems are learning to enhance their own capabilities, with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg outlining ambitions to develop AI that surpasses human intelligence. These advancements signal a significant push toward more autonomous and powerful AI, raising both opportunities and challenges for the future of the field.

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. Five ways that AI is learning to improve itself Last week, Mark Zuckerberg declared that Meta aims to achieve smarter-than-human AI. He seems to have a recipe for achieving that goal, and the…