The Institute for Future Progress published 23 concrete policy proposals for automated AI R&D, the same week a self-modifying agent hit 161 days unsupervised.

Import AI 468 leads with "How Should the US Prepare for Increasingly Automated AI R&D?", spanning transparency into automated R&D, state capacity building, risk management, verification technology, resilience investment, extending US leadership, and international cooperation. It's the first substantive attempt to translate recursive self-improvement from thought experiment into legislative-grade recommendations, and it landed the same week Ouroboros demonstrated the artifact. The convergence of framework and working system in one news cycle is the story.