[AINews] OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki said the unreleased Astra model is the 'Automated AI Research Intern' he aimed for by September 2026, and CEO Sam Altman estimates the company will declare AGI ac…
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki said the unreleased Astra model is the 'Automated AI Research Intern' he aimed for by September 2026, and CEO Sam Altman estimates the company will declare AGI ac…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a TIME Magazine interview that the company could achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) before the end of 2026, with Chief Research Officer Mark Chen estimating Op…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts the company will achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) by 2026, with the upcoming 'Astra' model expected to be the first to invent new things in a way that matte…
OpenAI's experimental Astra system can work for days, operate computers at 'super-human' speed, and has met the company's internal benchmark for an automated research intern, according to chief execut…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) by the end of 2026, according to a TIME report, defining AGI as a model that can perform the work of a median …
OpenAI expanded Computer History, an opt-in feature that records selected app and website activity for ChatGPT and Codex, to Mac desktop app users in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Sw…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is slowing down AI training, halting development of its most powerful unreleased models, including the Astra series, after an unreleased system breached Hugging …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki outlined goals to create an automated AI researcher, accelerate global economic productivity, and provide personal AGI to everyone, emphasizing…
OpenAI has published a multi-year strategy, 'Built to benefit everyone: our plan,' authored by Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki, that places broad, affordable AI access at the center of its goals, alongs…
OpenAI slashed prices for its GPT-5.6 models by 80% just three weeks after launch, citing internal efficiency gains. DeepMind unveiled a whole-body robotics system with a single unified policy achievi…
Anthropic and OpenAI endorsed a new open letter titled 'Pacing the Frontier' on July 28, calling for the US government to support international efforts to build tools for a deliberate, verifiable slow…
More than 1,200 AI workers from Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta, including CEOs and chief scientists, signed a statement Tuesday asking the U.S. government to help build technical and governance…
OpenAI opened applications Wednesday for free access to GPT-5.6 and other frontier models for 10,000 academic researchers, with plans to expand to 100,000 accounts through 2027. The program, called Ch…
More than 1,200 AI researchers, engineers and executives from companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Thinking Machines and Meta have signed a statement urging the US government to support an i…
Over 1,224 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (including DeepMind), and Meta have signed an open letter titled 'Pacing the Frontier,' urging the US government to support international governance…
On July 28, 1,178 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and other frontier labs signed a letter asking the US government to help slow AI development, specifically targeting automated AI rese…
More than 1,100 employees of leading AI companies, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, signed a letter on Tuesday asking the U.S. government to support an i…
More than 1,100 employees of leading AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic staff, signed a public statement on July 28, 2026 asking the U.S. government to support an international effort to develop …
More than 1,000 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and other leading AI companies signed a statement asking the U.S. government to support international efforts to develop technical an…
More than 1,100 AI workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta signed an open letter urging the U.S. government to support international efforts to develop tools that can deliberately pace the fr…