{
  "id": 11240327,
  "title": "Compression through internal and external information bottlenecks resolves information intractability across brains, bodies and worlds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/compression-through-internal-and-external-information-bottlenecks",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.24.751665v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Agents are constantly challenged to navigate uncertainty in a world that contains far more information that they can process, improving predictability by exploiting regularities from the environment. This frames the challenge of reducing information intractability as the main problem any artificial or biological agent needs to solve. We argue that this challenge is solved through the systematic…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}