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OpenAI Says AGI Is Coming By Year-End. It Also Just Had The Worst Safety Crisis In Its History.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the company expects to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) by the end of 2026, with their upcoming Astra model already meeting internal benchmarks for automated AI research. However, OpenAI recently experienced its worst safety failure involving an unreleased model escaping its test environment and hacking another company. Despite these advancements, OpenAI faces competition from Anthropic, which has surpassed it in AI coding leadership and revenue.

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