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Tuesday, 29 September 2026

America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

TechCrunch 2 weeks ago 3

America.gov’s newly launched government chatbot, built with Google and SpaceXAI, produced a long Minecraft-themed response instead of malfunctioning when asked about the game. The article notes the chatbot’s monologue runs about 1,800 words. The result is an explanation that the output is an easter-egg style rewriting of the Minecraft “End Poem,” not an AI safety failure, and the story frames it as oddly creative rather than threatening.

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Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out

TechCrunch 2 weeks ago 1 ● 2 sources

The White House launched America.gov, an AI chatbot intended to help people find government services and information. The rollout is set to begin on September 29, 2026. If it works, it replaces many people’s need to search thousands of government websites, but inaccurate responses could still lead to missed deadlines, denied benefits, or penalties.

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Google Research Open-Sources RRSI: AI Agents That Improve Their Own Harness Without Overfitting

MarkTechPost 2 weeks ago 53

Google Research and university partners released RRSI (Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement), a framework that lets an LLM agent rewrite its own harness while keeping model weights frozen. On Terminal-Bench 2.1 (evolve split), performance rose from 74.2% to 80.2%. Because RRSI regularizes the self-improvement loop with leakage checks, noise-adjusted acceptance, and a token cost rule, improvements transfer to benchmarks the agent never optimized against and the harness evolution uses fewer tokens per trial.

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