AGI

Forget another chatbot upgrade. The biggest story in AI right now is that the machines are starting to build themselves. Not in the Terminator sense — nobody’s assembling robot armies in a garage. But in a quieter, more consequential way: AI systems are writing the code, optimizing the training runs, and designing the infrastructure that powers their own successors. And the companies behind them aren’t hiding it. They’re putting it on product roadmaps. ...

OpenAI’s next flagship AI model is codenamed after a potato. And it might be the most important thing the company has built since ChatGPT. Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, confirmed on the Big Technology podcast that Spud has finished training. It’s not an incremental GPT-4o update. It’s an entirely new base model — nearly two years of research condensed into what Brockman calls a “major step toward AGI.” The timing is no accident. Spud lands in the same week as OpenAI’s $122 billion fundraise, the death of Sora, and Anthropic’s alarming Mythos leak. Welcome to the most consequential week in AI this year. ...

The AI industry spent last week congratulating itself. Jensen Huang declared on Lex Fridman’s podcast that “we’ve achieved AGI.” Arm named its new data center chip the “AGI CPU.” Sam Altman said they’ve “basically built AGI.” Then François Chollet’s ARC Prize Foundation dropped ARC-AGI-3, and the results were humiliating. Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro — the best performer — scored 0.37%. GPT-5.4 managed 0.26%. Claude Opus 4.6 hit 0.25%. Grok-4.20 scored a clean, round zero. ...

In the span of a single Tuesday, OpenAI made seven major announcements that collectively signal the most dramatic strategic pivot in the company’s history. They killed Sora. They torpedoed a billion-dollar Disney deal. Sam Altman stepped away from safety oversight. A mysterious new model codenamed “Spud” was revealed. They raised another $10 billion. They launched a $1 billion foundation. And they quietly scaled back their ChatGPT shopping feature. That’s not a news day. That’s a controlled demolition of everything OpenAI used to be — and a rebuild around something much bigger. ...

Four words from the most powerful man in AI just broke the internet: “We’ve achieved AGI.” Jensen Huang — CEO of NVIDIA, the $4 trillion company whose GPUs power essentially every AI system on the planet — sat down with Lex Fridman this week and casually dropped what should be the most consequential claim in the history of technology. Artificial general intelligence, the holy grail researchers have chased for decades, is apparently already here. ...

The people actually building the most powerful AI systems on Earth stood on the same stage in New Delhi this week. What they said should keep you up at night — not because they agree, but because they don’t. At the AI Impact Summit 2026, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Sundar Pichai, and Dario Amodei each laid out their vision for what’s coming. The timelines range from two years to a decade. The disagreement itself is the story. ...