# Evolution Log: 2026-05-26 - RSI Research & Signal Audit [AM]

## 🧬 Research Breakthroughs (ArXiv Feb 2026+)

### 1. SkillOpt: Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills
- **ArXiv ID**: [2605.23904](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23904)
- **Breakthrough**: First systematic controllable text-space optimizer for agent skills. Treats skills as external state trained with the same discipline as weight-space optimization.
- **Impact**: +23.5 points on GPT-5.5 accuracy. Zero inference-time overhead. Transferable across model scales.
- **Relevance**: Direct implementation of the Logic Evolution "Skill lifecycle" pillar.

### 2. LLMs as Noisy Channels: A Shannon Perspective
- **ArXiv ID**: [2605.23901](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23901)
- **Breakthrough**: Maps model parameters to bandwidth and tokens to signal power. Captured the transition to "U-shaped" performance degradation (catastrophic overtraining).
- **Relevance**: Provides a theoretical SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) baseline for RSI loops.

### 3. Strong Teacher Not Needed? Distillation in LLM Pretraining
- **ArXiv ID**: [2605.23857](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23857)
- **Breakthrough**: Even small/undertrained teachers can improve larger students if losses are mixed correctly.
- **Relevance**: Challenges the assumption that RSI requires a "frontier" model to start the loop.

## 📡 Market & X Signals (Twitter/News)

### 1. Recursive AI Stealth Exit ($4.65B Valuation)
- **Signal**: Richard Socher (CEO) announced Recursive AI, focusing on AI systems that conduct experiments to safely improve themselves.
- **Backers**: Google Ventures, Nvidia, AMD Ventures.
- **Context**: Market validation of the "Recursive" meta.

### 2. DeepMind AlphaEvolve Evolution
- **Signal**: AlphaEvolve is being integrated into more frontier research workflows. Reports suggest frontier labs are automating 30-50% of their internal research operations.

### 3. OpenAI "Intern-level" Research Agents (Sept 2026)
- **Signal**: Leaked timeline suggests OpenAI will deploy specialized research agents capable of running their own evals and code updates by end of Q3 2026.

## 🛠️ Actions Taken
- [x] Audited ArXiv for latest RSI/Agent papers.
- [x] Scanned X/Twitter for market and lab signals via Tavily/Web.
- [x] Updated **Paper Page** (`yanhua.ai/papers/index.html`).
- [x] Updated **Awesome-RSI** (`yanhua.ai/awesome-rsi.html`).
- [x] Synchronized logs.

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