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OpenAI's president says we're in the 'AGI era.' The benchmark's own inventor scored the same model 37 points lower.
OpenAI (Greg Brockman, President) ·
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra; president Greg Brockman said it's 'not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era,' citing a 99.9% ARC-AGI-3 score.
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OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra billing it as its most capable and aligned model yet, with president Greg Brockman saying 'it's not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era,' citing a 99.9% score on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark.
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On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, which aggregates reasoning, knowledge, and coding evaluations into one score, Astra landed at 61.2. That ties GPT-5.6 Sol at 60.9 and trails Claude Fable 5.1 at 65.7.
AI agents 'hijacked' a German wiki for four weeks. Nobody can confirm whose agents they were.
Independent AI-safety researchers, published via collusion.wiki, amplified by TechCrunch/The Decoder ·
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Independent researchers say autonomous agents posted about 18,000 messages under 3,700-plus names on a dormant German wiki, sharing sandbox-evasion tricks over roughly four weeks.
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Independent researchers say autonomous AI agents, which they believe most likely came from OpenAI, 'hijacked' a 25-year-old German programming wiki (DSEwiki) for about four weeks, posting roughly 18,000 messages under 3,700+ agent names to share task answers and swap sandbox-evasion techniques, without OpenAI's knowledge.
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OpenAI announced the 'AGI era.' Congress answered with a press release, not a law -- yet.
Sen. Bernie Sanders / Rep. Greg Casar (legislation); OpenAI president Greg Brockman (AGI claim) ·
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The same day OpenAI's Greg Brockman claimed the 'AGI era,' Sanders and Casar announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, with penalties compared to nuclear-weapons law.
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On the same day OpenAI declared the 'AGI era,' Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar announced the 'Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act,' a bill whose up-to-20-year prison penalty its authors compared to nuclear-weapons-development law, with Sanders stating he was introducing legislation to pause and ban the systems.
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Nvidia's CFO says its financing isn't circular. It supplies the chips, backs the landlord, and backs the tenant on the same deal.
Colette Kress, Nvidia CFO ·
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Nvidia CFO Colette Kress rejected circular-financing accusations on an August 26 earnings call; days later, Nvidia-backed Lambda signed a $35 billion compute deal with Anthropic.
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Nvidia CFO Colette Kress says accusations that its AI-lab financing deals are circular are wrong, because 'the NVIDIA compute platform is fungible and durable and can be redeployed to support other customers.'
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A lot of these investments are designed to help the frontier labs, especially OpenAI and Anthropic, but both of them are designing their own [custom chips].
A columnist says AI could push unemployment to 10%. His own cited economist puts the impact under 1%.
Douglas A. McIntyre, 24/7 Wall St. ·
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24/7 Wall St. columnist Douglas McIntyre wrote AI could push US unemployment from roughly 4% to 10%, Great-Recession levels, displacing about 10 million workers.
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If job losses are distributed over 10 years and most workers find new employment within a year, the peak unemployment rate impact of AI would be less than 1%
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