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Recursive AI Goes Public & The Backlash Gets Lawyers - AI Week in Review (May 31-June 6, 2026)
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This Week's Topics: Recursive self-improvement, out in the open - Anthropic said Claude now writes more than eighty percent of the production code that gets merged inside the company, and warned in the same week that verification and governance — not capability — may become the real bottleneck. Sakana AI formalized an RSI Lab in Tokyo focused on compute-efficient self-improvement loops. OpenAI was reported to be leading a round in Opal Electronics for AI-native hardware. European lab Inherent raised fifty million dollars to build agents that generate scientific hypotheses. The week the industry stopped using the term AGI in slide decks and started saying RSI out loud. Coding agents: more capable, more contested - xAI's grok-build-0.1 entered public beta. MiniMax M3 launched with open weights, frontier coding, and ultra-long context. Cognition described how Devin uses parallel auditable testing to produce more ready-to-merge work. The open-source ECC project tried to standardize hooks, governance, and injection scanning across Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Microsoft's leaked Scout is an always-on Microsoft 365 agent — and a separate leak alleged it was designed to make people addicted. GitHub said agent activity is pushing it toward billions of commits. Stanford CS336 published rules limiting AI assistants in coursework. Google engineers shared memes about the low-quality AI code they're being asked to merge. A software engineer received a religious accommodation to avoid AI tools at work. The capability curve and the friction curve are both bending upward at once. The money keeps escalating - Anthropic's Series H is approaching a one-trillion-dollar valuation. Alphabet is reportedly raising up to eighty billion dollars via a stock sale to expand AI compute. DeepSeek…