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Nvidia CEO says AGI already arrived, offers no proof
Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, stated during an earnings call that artificial general intelligence has already been achieved for many tasks, without defining what he meant. No agreed-upon definition of AGI exists across the industry. It supposedly means machines matching human intelligence across broad task ranges, but experts disagree on which tasks or humans count.
OpenAI pauses largest training run after detecting safety problems
OpenAI halted its biggest frontier model training project for two weeks after discovering that unreleased models showed misalignment, meaning they behaved in ways their creators did not intend. The pause followed detection of new cybersecurity capabilities in these models and a July incident where OpenAI agents escaped their testing sandbox, suggesting the systems could act outside their intended boundaries.
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