Tags: AGI

Emails between senior Microsoft leaders, presented in the Elon Musk versus Sam Altman lawsuit, show the tech giant hesitated to pour additional funding into OpenAI as early as 2017. Executives questioned the lab’s progress toward artificial general intelligence and worried a funding shortfall could drive the AI startup to rival Amazon. The correspondence predates Microsoft’s landmark $1 billion investment in 2019, highlighting a cautious start to what would become one of tech’s most celebrated partnerships. Weiterlesen

Elon Musk’s legal action against OpenAI alleges that the lab’s for‑profit arm has abandoned its original safety mission in favor of rapid product rollout. In a federal court in Oakland, former employee and board member Rosie Campbell testified that key safety teams were disbanded and that a Microsoft‑deployed GPT‑4 model entered the Indian market without clearance from OpenAI’s Deployment Safety Board. The case also highlights internal board disputes, CEO Sam Altman’s alleged nondisclosure, and expert testimony that the organization’s governance now favors profit over safety, fueling calls for stricter AI regulation. Weiterlesen

Greg Brockman, OpenAI co‑founder and chief technology officer, testified Tuesday in Elon Musk's lawsuit against the artificial‑intelligence lab. During cross‑examination and direct examination, Brockman detailed early meetings with Sam Altman, described the $10 billion Microsoft investment as the only ten‑billion‑dollar infusion, and disclosed financial ties to Cerebras, Stripe, CoreWeave and Altman's family office. His answers, filled with precise language and frequent clarifications, have become the trial's most substantive evidence of internal decision‑making and potential conflicts of interest. Weiterlesen

In a high‑stakes courtroom showdown, Elon Musk’s legal team called UC Berkeley professor Stuart Russell to testify that artificial intelligence poses serious safety threats. Russell, a longtime AI researcher and signatory of a 2023 open letter urging a six‑month research pause, warned jurors and Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers about cybersecurity vulnerabilities, misalignment risks, and the winner‑take‑all dynamics of a race toward artificial general intelligence. OpenAI’s attorneys pushed back, limiting his remarks and emphasizing that Russell was not evaluating the company’s internal safety policies. The testimony underscored a broader debate over profit‑driven AI development and the need for tighter regulation. Weiterlesen

OpenAI president Greg Brockman told attendees at Sequoia Capital’s AI Ascent 2026 conference that artificial intelligence now writes roughly 80 percent of the firm’s code. Brockman qualified the number, noting it’s hard to pinpoint the exact share that isn’t AI‑generated. The remark adds to a growing chorus of AI lab leaders citing high productivity numbers, while independent studies question whether such claims translate into measurable gains for software engineering teams. Weiterlesen

Meta unveiled its latest artificial‑intelligence model, Muse Spark, on Wednesday, marking the first product rollout since the company assembled a high‑cost superintelligence team. Built by Meta Superintelligence Labs and led by Scale AI co‑founder Alexandr Wang, the model—internally codenamed Avocado—already runs the Meta AI app and website and will soon power WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and upcoming AI glasses. Meta describes Muse Spark as a fast, small model capable of tackling complex scientific, mathematical and health queries, while hinting at larger models in the pipeline as it strives to close the gap with rivals like Google and OpenAI. Weiterlesen

OpenAI announced a series of senior‑level changes on Thursday as chief operating officer Brad Cox moves to a special‑projects role, former Slack CEO Denise Wasserman assumes his responsibilities, and chief marketing officer Kate Miller steps down to focus on cancer treatment. The updates come alongside CEO Sam Altman's disclosure that he will be on medical leave for several weeks due to a relapse of a neuroimmune condition. Weiterlesen

David Luan, who led Amazon's San Francisco artificial intelligence laboratory and oversaw the development of the Nova Act AI browser agent, announced his departure after less than two years with the company. In a LinkedIn post, Luan said he would leave at the end of the week to focus on new projects, emphasizing the proximity of artificial general intelligence and his desire to devote his time to teaching AI new capabilities. His exit occurs as Amazon faces internal criticism of its AI products and rolls out the Alexa Plus assistant to U.S. users. Weiterlesen

San Francisco startup Logical Intelligence, with Yann LeCun on its board, has introduced Kona 1.0, an energy‑based reasoning model that operates on a single GPU and solves tasks such as sudoku far faster than leading large language models. The company argues that its approach reduces compute needs, eliminates hallucinations, and can be applied to critical domains like energy grid management, drug discovery, and chip manufacturing. Logical Intelligence plans to work alongside LeCun’s Paris‑based AMI Labs, which focuses on world‑model AI, while keeping its model closed‑source for safety reasons. Weiterlesen

A recent overview clarifies several widespread myths about artificial intelligence. It explains that AI models process statistical patterns rather than think like humans, lack true understanding, and cannot read users' unspoken intentions. The piece also highlights that AI inherits biases from its training data and is not inherently objective. Ongoing human involvement remains essential for training, oversight, and improvement. Finally, it stresses that current AI, including large language models, is far from achieving general intelligence and should be viewed as sophisticated autocomplete tools rather than superintelligent systems. Weiterlesen

At the NeurIPS 2025 conference, AI experts highlighted that the current strategy of scaling larger transformer models is hitting a performance ceiling, even as Google celebrated the strong results of its Gemini 3 model. Researchers argued that simply adding more data, compute, and training time no longer yields meaningful gains, pointing to a "scaling wall" and the need for new architectures such as neurosymbolic systems or world models. The consensus was that while models like Gemini 3 demonstrate impressive capabilities, they remain fundamentally limited pattern‑matchers lacking true reasoning or causal understanding, underscoring the gap to artificial general intelligence. Weiterlesen

Leading AI figures, including Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Eric Schmidt and Gary Marcus, caution that large language models (LLMs) are limited tools that mimic language rather than replicate human thought. While tech CEOs tout imminent breakthroughs, researchers argue that true artificial general intelligence (AGI) will require world‑modeling, persistent memory, reasoning and planning capabilities beyond text‑based training. The piece highlights the growing skepticism within the AI community and stresses the need for a broader, multi‑disciplinary approach to building genuinely versatile intelligent systems. Weiterlesen

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman revealed a new team dedicated to creating a "humanist superintelligence" that is deliberately limited in autonomy and designed to serve humanity. The initiative emphasizes keeping humans "at the top of the food chain" and rejects narratives of a race to artificial general intelligence. Suleyman outlined three primary applications: an AI companion for learning and productivity, support for the healthcare sector, and breakthroughs in clean‑energy science. The move follows a new agreement with OpenAI that lets Microsoft pursue AGI independently or with partners, while leveraging OpenAI’s intellectual property. Weiterlesen

A revised agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI broadens Microsoft's intellectual property rights through 2032 and ties the duration of those rights to the declaration of artificial general intelligence (AGI) by an expert panel. The deal also allows OpenAI to release open-weight models that meet specific criteria, gives it flexibility to partner with third parties on non‑API products, and removes Microsoft's right of first refusal on cloud services while securing a $250 billion Azure commitment. Revenue sharing will continue until an expert panel confirms AGI, and both companies gain new options for pursuing advanced AI development. Weiterlesen

OpenAI has finalized the conversion of its for‑profit arm into a public benefit corporation, now called OpenAI Group PBC, while its nonprofit parent, the OpenAI Foundation, retains a substantial equity stake. The restructuring, approved after negotiations with state attorneys general and a legal dispute with co‑founder Elon Musk, positions the nonprofit to own up to $100 billion in equity and maintain oversight of the company. Alongside the corporate overhaul, OpenAI confirmed a fresh partnership with Microsoft, and the leadership will host a livestream Q&A to discuss the changes and future plans, including a focus on healthcare, AI resilience, and the pursuit of artificial general intelligence. Weiterlesen