Prometheus, a physical AI startup backed by Jeff Bezos, raised $12B at a $41B valuation to automate heavy engineering and drug design.

Barry Diller defended Sam Altman while warning that AGI remains unpredictable and needs guardrails.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced a revised deal dropping Microsoft's exclusive right to sell OpenAI models and capping revenue share payments to the tech giant.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin urged AI staff to work 60-hour weeks, saying Google can win the race to artificial general intelligence with the right focus and intensity.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang sparked global debate by claiming AGI has already been achieved, redefining the term around AI's ability to build billion-dollar businesses, during an appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast.

Google DeepMind has published a scientific paper introducing a 10-ability cognitive taxonomy for evaluating AI systems' progress toward AGI, alongside a Kaggle hackathon offering $200,000 in prizes to build the necessary evaluation benchmarks.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman cautioned at the India AI Impact Summit that society is unprepared for the pace of AI advancement, as OpenAI increasingly uses its own AI systems to accelerate internal research and development.

Demis Hassabis identifies dual-use AI risks and calls for international frameworks, predicting AGI arrival within 5-10 years at India summit.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman forecasts early superintelligence by 2028, warning data centers may house more intelligence than humanity by decade's end.

Ex-Google ethicist Tristan Harris warns unchecked AI growth could cause job market collapse by 2027, with AI already causing 13% decline in early-career jobs.

Four UC San Diego professors argue AGI has arrived, citing GPT-4.5's 73% Turing test success rate and PhD-level problem-solving capabilities.

Dr. Ben Goertzel, AGI pioneer, forecasts nine major AI developments for 2026 including assistants with memory, mathematical breakthroughs, and possible AGI emergence.

Turing Award winner and former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun argues that the tech industry's singular focus on large language models (LLMs) is a flawed path that will not lead to true artificial general intelligence.

DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and AI pioneer Yann LeCun present conflicting views on AGI achievability, with LeCun arguing LLMs alone cannot reach human-level intelligence.

Elon Musk declares at Davos that AI will surpass individual human intelligence by end of 2026 and collective human intelligence by 2030-2031, while Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots advance toward public release.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis suggests that the natural shortcomings slowing down AI's development might be a good thing, allowing more time to address the societal and philosophical challenges of the technology.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes the next significant leap in AI will be the development of 'infinite, perfect memory,' allowing AI to remember every detail of a user's life.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis argues that large language models like ChatGPT are insufficient for true scientific breakthroughs and that 'world models' are the future of AI.