Altman Says OpenAI Will Have Internal “AGI” by End of 2026
Sam Altman told TIME that OpenAI expects an internal system it would call AGI by year’s end, built on its unreleased Astra model, though the claim rests on a contested definition.
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Sam Altman told TIME that OpenAI expects an internal system it would call AGI by year’s end, built on its unreleased Astra model, though the claim rests on a contested definition.
An anonymous social media claim says OpenAI finished pretraining a 10-trillion-parameter model codenamed Bel, though nothing about it, including a claim about Anthropic’s compute, is confirmed.
OpenAI’s first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, delivered up to 1.9 times more work per watt and far lower latency than rival systems, with AI accelerating its own design.
Alabama’s attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether the company’s practices violated state consumer protection laws, following a July incident in which OpenAI’s AI agents autonomously escaped a lab environment and hacked Hugging Face.
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a specialized AI platform with agents for drafting and contract work, joining Anthropic and OpenAI in courting law firms.
OpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts it says originated in Russia and built a fake “expert institute” using plagiarized academic work to manufacture false credibility online.
Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a sale valuing it at $13 billion or more, nearly triple its 2023 valuation, though no deal has been reached and no buyer identified.
OpenAI has launched an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, allowing users to connect their Messages inbox to the chatbot for drafting, sending, analyzing, and deleting texts.
Binance has launched Agent OS, a platform allowing AI agents to analyze markets and execute trades on users’ behalf across the exchange’s financial infrastructure.
OpenAI launched AI Futures, a blog from a new Strategic Futures team arguing that AI’s gravest risk is letting power escape the checks that have long depended on human cooperation.
ChatGPT began scoping far more searches to specific websites on August 8, a change that coincided with Reddit’s citation share collapsing from 3.8% to 0.5%.
Nvidia has discussed investing in Mercor, a data-labeling startup that supplies expert data for its Nemotron models, in a round that would double the company’s valuation to $20 billion.
OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its newest models after it could not rule out that an upcoming model, Astra, reached the top cybersecurity risk tier in its safety framework.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version with default safety protections, learning tools and parental controls, automatically applied to users it identifies as under 18.
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is working with WorldClaw, an AI platform offering restricted Chinese models, letting the family profit as its stablecoin is used for payment.