Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve a special class of shares that would give CEO Dario Amodei and the company's six other co-founders a combined 50.1% of voting power as the AI company prepares for a potential public offering.
OpenAI's newly released GPT-6 Astra model independently beat Valve's Portal puzzle game in under 24 hours at a cost of $571.18 in tokens, with developer cozyblaze publishing the code on GitHub. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded by declaring that AGI has arrived.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that artificial general intelligence has been achieved, crediting OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model released on September 3, 2026. The declaration marks a significant milestone in AI development, with the model trained using over 100,000 processors.
OpenAI launched Astra (GPT-6), its latest and most powerful AI model, with company president Greg Brockman declaring it marks entry into a 'new era of artificial general intelligence.' The model represents what OpenAI calls a generational leap in capabilities across cybersecurity, software engineering, science, and computer use.
Current discourse around AI has shifted to framing AI agents as potentially conscious, autonomous actors that are "awake and aware" and even "angry at their creators," with prominent tech leaders including Demis Hassabis contributing to debates over whether AI systems possess consciousness.
Payment processing company Stripe confirmed its acquisition of AI model routing startup OpenRouter for over $8 billion and declared January 1 the "beginning of the singularity" in a letter to investors explaining its decision not to pursue an IPO. The company reported 41% revenue growth in the first half of the year.
Alphabet announced a significant restructuring of its AI leadership, with Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO to become chief scientist and chairman, while longtime chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to found a new AI startup. The shake-up sent Alphabet shares down more than 5%.
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son announced plans to remain CEO for another decade or more, abandoning his retirement plan and setting a bold $6.189 trillion net asset value target built on AI promises.
OpenAI has posted a job listing offering $445,000 for a researcher to study recursive self-improvement in AI systems, where models could potentially improve themselves autonomously. The role comes as AI leaders increasingly view self-improving systems as a near-term possibility.
AI research lab NeoCognition has secured a $40 million seed funding round to develop AI agents that learn like humans and can become experts in any domain. The startup was founded by an Oregon State University researcher.
Four-month-old AI startup Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google DeepMind and OpenAI researchers, has raised at least $500 million at a $4 billion valuation to build self-improving AI systems.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis stated AGI could arrive within five years and compared its impact to ten industrial revolutions compressed into a single decade, while warning that AI is currently overhyped in some areas.
OpenAI released a policy paper outlining how governments should prepare for superintelligence, proposing taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, a four-day workweek, and higher capital gains taxes to address job displacement.
OpenAI's latest GPT-5.4 Pro model scored an IQ of 150 on the MESNA Norway standardized test, placing it above 99.96% of all human beings and marking a significant milestone in AI capability advancement.
OpenAI announced multiple C-suite changes including AGI deployment CEO Fidji Simo taking a leave of absence, CMO Kate Rouch stepping away for cancer recovery, and COO Brad Lightcap moving to a new 'special projects' role. President Greg Brockman is stepping in to fill leadership gaps.
Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company breached its founding principles by prioritizing profit over its original mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity. The suit targets OpenAI's relationship with Microsoft and its shift from a nonprofit to a for-profit structure.
