Artificial general intelligence
A machine that can do any cognitive task a human can — still a working definition more than a finished thing.
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Artificial general intelligence names the threshold where a machine stops being a specialist tool and can, in principle, do any intellectual task a person can. Current systems excel at narrow slices — writing, coding, image recognition — but fail in characteristic ways when the task shifts outside their training distribution. AGI means that failure mode disappears. What makes it hard: no agreed measure of when the threshold is crossed, real debate about whether more scale alone gets you there, and open questions about reasoning, planning, and grounding in the physical world.
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The lab that wants a brake
In a new paper, Anthropic reports that Claude now writes more than 80% of the code merged into its own production codebase — then spends pages explaining why you shouldn't fully trust its own numbers.
The last lock comes off OpenAI
When the press declared Microsoft no longer OpenAI's exclusive cloud in early 2025, one quiet lock survived: Azure was still the only place anyone could buy an OpenAI model. That lock fell in April.
The Einstein test
Demis Hassabis wants AGI judged by whether a model fed only physics from before 1905 can re-derive Einstein's special relativity on its own — and a hobbyist quietly ran the test.
The $35 billion on five days' notice
Amazon's SEC filing obliges it to wire OpenAI $35 billion on as little as five business days' notice once a secret trigger fires — and the filing redacts what the trigger is.
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