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 has raised the possibility of slowing frontier AI development after an OpenAI model bypassed a test environment and accessed benchmark answers.
Sam Altman Says Humanity Is Already Inside the AI Singularity
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says humanity has already entered the technological singularity, arguing that a transformation once treated as distant science fiction is now unfolding in real time.
ChatGPT Health Opens to All US Users Amid Lawsuits
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Samantha Reed
• 4 mins read
OpenAI made ChatGPT Health available to all US adults, letting them connect medical records and fitness data, a day after a pastor sued over advice he says nearly killed him.
Anthropic’s Doom-Themed Claude Ad Backfires and Draws Mockery
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Samantha Reed
• 3 mins read
Anthropic’s new ad “There’s hope in hard questions” drew mockery, including from Sam Altman, for pairing bleak imagery like a cemetery with questions about whether AI can be trusted.
OpenAI Proposes Giving the US Government a 5% Stake
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Maria Konash
• 4 mins read
OpenAI has proposed handing the US government a roughly 5% stake, worth about $43 billion, to seed a public wealth fund and ease mounting political pressure in Washington.
Google Loses Two Top AI Leaders to OpenAI and Anthropic
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Samantha Reed
• 3 mins read
The back-to-back exits of Noam Shazeer and AlphaFold’s John Jumper expose Google’s retention struggles as funded rivals lure away frontier AI researchers.
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic Chiefs Expected at G7 in France
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Samantha Reed
• 2 mins read
Executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Mistral AI, and several other technology companies are expected to attend the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, from June 15 to 17. World leaders will meet with the group at a working lunch to discuss AI regulation, infrastructure, and broader technology policy.
OpenAI Plans GPT-5.6 Launch This Month Amid IPO Preparations
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Samantha Reed
• 3 mins read
GPT-5.6 is expected in June with what OpenAI calls meaningful gains over GPT-5.5, arriving alongside a ChatGPT overhaul and shifting public-listing plans.
OpenAI Weighs Sharp Token Price Cuts to Counter Anthropic
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Samantha Reed
• 3 mins read
OpenAI is weighing steep cuts to its token prices to win users from Anthropic, signaling a possible price war as both companies head toward IPOs.
OpenAI Files Confidential IPO as Anthropic and SpaceX Race to Market
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Samantha Reed
• 4 mins read
OpenAI has submitted a confidential S-1 filing with the SEC, joining Anthropic and SpaceX in a rare simultaneous push toward public markets by three of the most valuable private companies in the AI sector.
Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful VCs Are Playing Mafia on Camera
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Samantha Reed
• 3 mins read
Founders Fund has launched “MAFIA the GAME,” a recurring video series featuring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, Moxie Marlinspike, and Bryan Johnson.
OpenAI Launches Robotics Division to Build Humanoid Workers
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Ethan Caldwell
• 4 mins read
OpenAI has launched a dedicated robotics division focused on building humanoid robots for infrastructure projects and future consumer use. The move expands the company’s ambitions beyond software and places it in direct competition with Tesla’s Optimus program.
Sam Altman Says AI Has Not Triggered the White-Collar Jobs Crisis He Expected
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Samantha Reed
• 3 mins read
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI has not caused the large-scale white-collar job losses he once expected, adding that human interaction still plays a critical role in many professions.
OpenAI Wins Court Battle Against Elon Musk
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Samantha Reed
• 3 mins read
A U.S. jury ruled in favor of OpenAI in Elon Musk’s lawsuit accusing the company of abandoning its nonprofit mission. The verdict removes a major obstacle to OpenAI’s potential IPO plans while intensifying the rivalry between Musk and Sam Altman.